HP Compaq Presario CQ61 Graphic card upgrade

Hello,
I was wondering can someone help me with this problem.
I want to upgrade graphic on my laptop, and I don't know is that posiible, and what graphic card is copmpatible with this model. 
Current card is ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 Graphics, and I would like to instal max supported by motherboard.
Also, processor is 2.2 GHz AMD Turion II Dual-Core Mobile Processor M500,  is it possible to instal  
M600 2.4-GHz processor, 2-MB L2 cache, 3.6 GT/s HyperTransport speed or some even faster.
Thank you for your help!
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Good news/bad news. No upgrade to the video is possible but the M600 CPU will work. 
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