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    Acer Aspire 5920 Upgrade Recommendation

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by merdh17, Oct 18, 2008.

  1. merdh17

    merdh17 Newbie

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    Hello, I am using this machine over a year, its ok. I am working animation, compositing, sound design and music.So i want to make some changes on this pc.I need some recommendations, ideas about these:

    1)I m using 2gb of ram and i want to max this to 4 gb. Is there any specific brand that you can say "good" and i also wonder how much mhz use max, recently i m using 667 and i want to buy what ddr2 offers max if there is no any adaptation issue.

    2)I also need a 7200rpm harddisk. But i know nothing about laptop hdds. I m thinking for the best hdd as possible.But, i dont know what hdds are avalible for this Acer model, or is it not necessary something like that.

    3) Finally, I ve created an Acer backup DVD, i wonder how easy to setup the computer if i change the hdd? I mean is it going to be licensed and free of problems like before.I used recovery once before, but with Empowering T software. Never did with a DVD.

    Thank you.
     
    merdh17, Oct 18, 2008
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  2. Lucefer-AB

    Lucefer-AB Newbie

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    How about using the external usb box with 7200 (or even raptor 10000rpm) HDD inside?
     
    Lucefer-AB, Nov 17, 2008
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  3. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    namaiki, Nov 17, 2008
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  4. Lucefer-AB

    Lucefer-AB Newbie

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    Why 25MB/s? May be 400MB/s? (max speed of the USB2 or the firewire)
     
    Lucefer-AB, Nov 17, 2008
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    max transfer speed of the USB2 interface is 480megabits per second

    8 bits in a byte = 60megabytes per second theoretically

    but generally you will get around 30megabytes per second in general usage because of overheads and other reasons
     
    namaiki, Nov 17, 2008
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  6. ratchetnclank

    ratchetnclank Notebook Deity

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    1) Crucial do good value compatible ram. 667mhz is the maximum speed for you model buying any higher clocked ram will be underclocked by the bios as it won't be supported.

    2) Any 7200rpm 2.5 inch sata will work on the laptop. ebuyer.com is good for HDD.

    3) It's as simple as inserting the disc and then pressing f12 at bios to get the boot menu up and select the cd/dvd drive option and it will guid you through from there.


    Hope this helps.
     
    ratchetnclank, Nov 17, 2008
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