MSI GX70 to Richland CPU Upgrade

Hi
My GX70 Notebook is now getting too slow for some of the finest newest Games, for example Dead Rising 3 runs with 9-12 Frames, Assassins Creed Black Flag 12 frames, Need for Speed Rivals 3-10 frames, and Sleeping Dogs is not playable (1-8 frames).
All other games till 2013 are fine, but these brandnew games are just a little bit too hardware hungry. And I guess the new Assassins Creed games which are released this fall, won`t run fine too and will stutter around with 9-13 frames.
This has nothing to do with the graphics settings, because no matter how high or how low I set the graphic options, the framerate does not change (from ultrahigh to low settings maybe +2 frames) so the problem is not a GPU issue.
The slow outdated AMD A10-5750, 4x2,4 GHz CPU completely bottlenecks the very fast and impressive Radeon 8970 graphics chip, and therefore I want a better CPU for up to date gaming performance.
So I`d like to know if it is possible to insert this great CPU into my Notebook, the AMD A10-6800k Richland (AD680KWOHLBOX) for socket FM2 and 100 watts power consumption, and 4x4,1 GHz.
Impressive, huh? :D
Double the clock - double the fun, this should solve all the lagging problems and will make these extreme slow running games fully playable:
http://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/amd-a10-6800k-ad680kwohlbox-a950987.html
Can I just buy this CPU and put it into my GX-70 Notebook?
Is the power supply strong enough for 100 watts CPU?
Will the CPU clock really be 4x 4,10 Gigahertz?
Will a BIOS update be necessary after inserting the new CPU? (I am really really afraid of flashing the BIOS, I bricked a Galaxy S3 mobile phone before, I really DON`t want to flash my notebook BIOS!)
I am sorry because of my stupid questions, but I have never before built or modified a notebook, I build tower PCs till 2010 and the GX70 is my second Notebook.
Thanks for your help and answers!
Kind regards,
Mystique

well i dont think so most gaming laptops lately have soldered CPU to motherboard which means you cannot change cpu chip :/ but if you could then you would need to find a manual that tells you what type of cpu's are supported but i dont think GX70 has support for cpu upgrade due to it's cpu is soldered to the motherboard.
I can be wrong since i tried to google up GX70 motherboard found diffirent motherboards most of them had nothing todo with a MSI laptop lolz so yeah correct me if i'm wrong.

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