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    Acer Aspire CPU upgrade options

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Crazyal, Mar 8, 2012.

  1. Crazyal

    Crazyal Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,

    I have an older acer aspire 3000 (3003WLMI) that I use as a spare and I am thinking of upgrading the CPU at some point if I can find one cheap somewhere (and I mean cheap, don't really want to spend much on this old thing).

    Anyway I am asking does anyone know which turion processors the acer supports? such as what socket it uses etc. It currently has an AMD sempron 3000 1.8Ghz.

    Also would a turion produce less heat? This is probably the main reason I am thinking of upgrading the CPU (fan and vents are clear of dust, although it has always run hot).

    Thanks for any suggestions.
     
    Crazyal, Mar 8, 2012
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    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    It supports Lancaster-based 90nm Turion64 CPUs.
    Hard to say if all microcodes are included in BIOS but everything up to Turion ML-34 is for sure. ML-37 and ML-40 are quite likely to be supported but I;m not sure of that and these are hard to get anyway.
     
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