Acer 9810 / 9810-6994 CPU Upgrade Questions

Hello,

I own an older Acer 9810 with a CPU Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 2.16GHz, 667Mhx FSB, 4MB L2 Cache Centrino. I'm trying to see how far I can upgrade this system. It still works very well, just a little slow as it is now pushing 4 years old. If I could even upgrade it to 3GHZ that would last me for my purposes another 2 years.

Called Acer and they can only state a 2.33GHz upgrade which wouldn't even be worth my time.

I have an custom I7 system as well, but the Acer 9810 is used for my primary business.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

Ingenuitor, the Acer 9810 uses Socket M and a 945 Series chipset. The fastest CPU available for Socket M is the Core 2 Duo T7600 at 2.33 GHz, and as you said, it isn't worth it.
Time to look at the other parts of your system for upgrades. How much memory do you have? What's the hard drive?

 

Don't waste money start raising the FSB and overclocking and undnervolting if it is running cool enough

 

Overclocking is a tricky deal on notebooks, especially so if it's not supported by the OEM.
You'd basically need to locate your PLL on your motherboard, and hope that someone's programmed a utility that can overclock your PLL.
And undervolting does not make a performance increase on its own (less heat and more battery life, though).

 

OC raise heat undervolt is to attempt to drop whatever heat produced by OC.
The fact that Mobile Proccessor is rarely available to the General Public and the high individual unit cost makes OC is much better solution.
Buying a new laptop is even a more expensive alternative.
My guess is OP's Processor is actually still rather powerful it is other factors like temporary files and insufficient memory is causing the less than ideal usage experience.

 

That's what I was thinking - a 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo is still plenty fast for a modern computer, and that he should consider a RAM or hard drive upgrade for a good boost.

 

You guys have been very helpful, I figured it would end up being a brick someday. But like you stated it works well for most applications. As for memory & hd, it has 2G of ram and two 300G drives on a raid 1 setup. Saved my butt once b4. Was a nice system 4 years ago for a little over $1800. I have tried to upgrade the ram and well it would freeze the system. So I'm not sure what is up with that. Also the hard drives worked very well and no real room to grow there anyway, nor needed. So basically it's working well, just wanted to make it faster. As for overclocking, I have no clue where to even begin. The fan never really runs, it doesn't get hot at all. Better than my I7. That system locks up more due to Vista 64 I'm sure and sometimes locks me out of my network all together. Thanks again for the help.

 

Update... now the system just reboots and even when i do a full restore with new hard drives I can't get the OS to load, you can hear it but nothing loads then it freezes and reboots. Checked video, good. Could the MB be out, is this type of thing worth fixing, if so were? Acer was no help... Notebooks today are not even worth buying from what I have seen, maybe a MacBook Pro is tho. My i7 now runs better than ever after installing Win 7 64, Vista 64 was crap for me anyway. Thanks

 

Jeez, sorry to hear that things are going pear-shaped.
Does sound like a mobo issue. Acer would be the place to go to get it repaired, or AcerParts.com if you're feeling adventurous and willing to do the repair yourself.