Acer 8930G Highest CPU? What can I get?

Hello,

So, I've got an AS8930G. Right now, I'm using an Intel E8435 Rev. C0 which I believe has a TDP of 55W.

Anyway, I do a lot of 3D rendering and I could really benefit from a quad core. So I'm looking to upgrade my CPU.

My chipset is Intel PM45 Rev. 07.

I'm just trying to find a reliable quad core... preferably one that doesn't require v1.23 to run or TDP 55W.

Are the core i7 CPU's quad core or dual core? Would any of them work?

 

Okay, well, I went ahead and bought an Intel Q9200 QAVR. We'll see how that goes.

 

try reading the 8930g thread, its over 250+ posts its all in there
i dont think the Q9200 will work

 

So, sure, now you tell me.

And yeah, about those 250 posts...I'm not going to search through all that. I did a google search and people were saying the Q9000 should work fine, so I figured why wouldn't the Q9200. It has a lower TDP than what I got now, and it's made for PM45 chipset so, should be fine.

 

also q9000 only works on motherboards that end with 0004 you can see the revision under the ram.

x9100 was the highest you could get with a tdp of 44w and can be undervolted and overclocked to suit

 

because unlike you i have read the thread lol
if you had you wouldnt have got a cpu that wont run in our 8930g's

 

yea i knwo the feeling i had to trawl through the thread and 3 different sites to get the correct part ID for the gpu cooling bracket for the 8930g 9700mgt then had to get it shipped for £30 and 3 weeks wait. luckily i pulled a E0 stepping x9100 for £80 and a 9700mgt for £35

silly 9600mgt ddr2 At least it ran sooo coool

 

Oh? Mine doesn't run so cool. Gets up to 70C under load. But yeah, it's not where it needs to be in terms of performance.

I was thinking of maybe trying to upgrade to an FX3700M (I do a lot of 3D graphics work).

Wait, so... where do I see the MB part number? And which number am I looking at?
I have System Info for Windows which I use to diagnose pretty much everything.

 

look under your ram for a serial number.

post it here and we can tell you if it supports it

 

Hi Guys. I'm reading this with interest since I also want to upgrade my 8930g. I'm going to use it for Solid Works which also is a 3d software. I have a 9600gt graphics card which should be fine and then I want to upgrade to 6gb memory. Is it possible to use a Q9100?

Thanks

 

ver4 is what you need for a q9000 and it wont support other quads either.
ver2 is x9100 tops

x9100 works great at 3.4 at 1.23 voltage 3ghz its at 1.2v

if its a 9600mgt 1gb then the ddr3 version is a nice upgrade or a gt240m

 

Thank you for the answer. I have been looking on ebay and a x9100 plus a fx 3700m will cost me roughly 500$ and on top of that I need 6gb ram. Maybe it's time to consider a new laptop even though I really like this one.

 

Well I can tell you right now you can't upgrade to 6GB. The motherboard in the AS8930G will only support 4Gb. You can put 6GB in there, but you'll still only be able to use 4Gb because of the mobo.

My Q9200 should be here by Friday, and if it works in mine, I would imagine a Q9100 would work in yours.

 

now you have no clue what your talking about.

yes it says supports 4gb because thats the MAX they had to test at he time. Im using 6gb atm and its going great the mobo isnt limited though it wont take 8gb though the chipset on the motherboard supports it.

read the thread instead of posting what you think.

 

well i can see from this post you still havent read the other thread lol

lol your so wrong(acer say 4gb max in the spec but it will run 6gb max)
it runs great on 6gb, but you will need win 7 64bit to use more than 4gb but that goes for any laptop on the market with win 7 32bit not just the 8930g

good luck with the Q9200 because its not going to work on the 8930g

 

Nice to hear it can support 6Gb of RAM. This is what I love about this forum. I get to run my old beater of a laptop that officially only supports 533MHz FSB at 100MHz FSB. Now this is why we're all here, right? Not to have a debate but to help each other out.

@shakennstirred-nice OC on your cpu. Mine is a T8100 @2.8GHz.

 

Well, I was wrong. The Q9200 didn't work.

So my mobo is a ver 00, but from what I gather the X9100 should work.

 

yeah the X9100 will work fine im sure

 

Well I tried to upgrade to 6Gb but I'm having problems...

 

did you go for 4gb+2gb or try the 1 stick of 8gb in hoping that it would work?

 

I did the 4+2. I think maybe the 4GB was a DOA.

 

I have got 6GB of pc-3 10600s running perfectly in mine.....