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If you are saying to take it out of a laptop and put it in a desktop computer, then no. Laptop processors (as far as I have seen) are soldered into the motherboard, and designed only for motherboards for laptop sizes. Which in that case, it isn't possible to use a laptop processor in a desktop PC.

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