Acer Aspire 6920G Throttling & Upgrade?

My notebook has worked fine until about half a year ago when the CPU is overheating from doing little tasks such as skyping and having the internet open. So I read up on the topic and ended up here. I have rmclock installed and adjusted it a bit but no real effect. I also don't want to mess up my laptop by frying it.
For the Aspire 6920G with Intel T5750 @ 2GHz what do I have to set my FID and VID at?

other question:
Would you recommend upgrading my CPU or is the current one sufficient? (I use it for occasional gaming (Empire total war) and multimedia applications such as photo-shop)
If so what other components would I have to change?
Would it increase the performance of my laptop?

well as you see i'm not an expert in these things at all! I greatly appreciate your help.
Thanks

 

Hi acersv, and welcome to the forums!
I moved your questions to a new thread, as the one you posted in was more than a little out of date - the latest information you need is in the Definitive Guide to throttling.

Now, we need to make sure your CPU isn't actually overheating - please post a screenshot of HWMonitor so we can have a look.

As for the upgrade, 2.0 GHz should be sufficient for what you want to do, but upgrading can help in media applications like PhotoShop (or encoding software like HandBrake).
No other components of the notebook would need to be upgraded - it'd be a drop-in-and-go, but I would advise against it if you aren't comfortable working inside your system.
Other upgrades that are less expensive that might boost performance more would be more RAM (unless you're already at the 4GB maximum), or a faster/bigger hard drive.

 

I posted the screen shot in the word document.
It doesn't seem to be overheating, or am I wrong?

About the upgrade, I'm interested in learning. So I'd better start with a scrap computer.
I have 4 GB RAM yet only 3GB can be utilized because it's windows vista 32 bit.

 

OK, your CPU isn't overheating at all. Start worrying when it gets into the 80-Celsius range.
Go ahead and follow the Definitive Guide I linked to in the previous post.

 

I found that guide before I posted this thread. I have installed it but it doesn't seem to drop from 100%.
I will keep watching the cpu as the usage is often 100% when I do multiple tasks. currently with only firefox open it's 10-20%.
Avira is my antivirus. I just noticed that the cpu usage jumped to 80% when an avira ad popped up. It later said 2 new components were installed to avira. Is it normal that this requires that much cpu?

 

i just downloaded the orthos program and ran some of the tests. On the side i had throttlestop open. The values for the Chip did NOT change. ie. this is not the problem.
I will keep watching my cpu... maybe it's just me... but when you skype with someone and the webcam transmission has bad lags which it didn't used to have I think something must be wrong.

 

Well, antivirus programs in particular are CPU-intensive. My roommate used AVG until it wigged out and took up almost all of his CPU all of the time. Have you considered switching antivirus programs, perhaps to Microsoft Security Essentials or Avast?

It's also possible that it's your Internet connection frazzling when you're Skyping, and that is responsible for your lags. Keep Task Manager up when you're Skyping and see what's using CPU space.

 

Is it normal to have 86 processes going on?
I attached the screenshot of the task manager