Acer Aspire 5251 CPU Upgrade

Hi,

Has anyone successfully upgraded the AMD V120 to N660 in an Acer Aspire 5251-1513 motherboard below? Any insight would be much appreciated!

I did and had nothing but problems. Upon first boot, it bsod within a couple minutes. After days of working with it I got, at best, 2 to 3 hours of up time between app crashes. It even bsod while trying to re-install Windows after a format. I thought I had a bad disc.

I put the V120 back in, used the same disc above, and all is great again.

Wishing to go from an AMD V120 to AMD N660 processor (single core 2.2 to dual core 3.0).

MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 on the below motherboard:

Acer Model JE50_DN (Socket S1G4)
Version V2.14
Chipset Vendor AMD
Chipset Model 785GX
Chipset Revision 00
Southbridge Vendor AMD
Southbridge Model SB850
Southbridge Revision 40
System Temperature 52 °C
BIOS
Brand Acer
Version V2.14

 

Anybody?

I found this list of supported CPUs but, unfortunately, mines not there. Perhaps it hasn't been tested yet.

I see in there that, like the N660, the x920 also supports DDR3-1333 as the fastest memory. Per Acer, I can only use DDR3-1066, which is what I have 8GB of, perhaps that's an issue. I do see crucial.com list DDR3-1333 as an upgrade for my beast so, if need be, I could.

CPU-Upgrade: Acer Aspire 5251-1513 processor support

 

Well, just so you know, it was a faulty processor.

 

Hi selvan, I see you have problems getting your to work originally. I found your username all over the net when trying to see what was compatible with this laptop. lol

Any tips? Can one actually go up to the x920 with these?

Sorry to necro, but info like this is way to valuable to pass up.

 

You ain't kidding! I never had torn into a laptop that far before, let alone the N660's compatibility!

I do recall reading at a couple sites where others went with the x920 with success. Aside from that, sorry, I've nothing more to share.

 

I bought an x920 several months ago off eBay. I didn't get around to installing it until yesterday. Although I was a little wary given that the quad core chip requires 20w more than the V120 that came with the 5251, the chip runs great. Along with the 8GB (2 x 4GB) of RAM that I also installed really makes the laptop substantially more useful than it's stock config. Temps range in the high 40's C when idle and I haven't seen temps exceed 60C even doing some heavy multitasking.