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    Aspire 5100 CPU Upgrade

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by neogen, Jan 17, 2008.

  1. neogen

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    Hi all,
    Im just wondering if anyone could help me. Basically i have a Aspire 5102 laptop. With a 1.6 Turion 64 CPU and 1 gig of ram. I am looking to upgrade. Crucial have told me i can get 4 gig to work in this laptop (nice) now what my query is this.
    I have seen a Turion 2.0 gig CPU for sale. Apparantly its out of a AMD Turion 64 ML37 2.0ghz laptop CPU from HP DV8000
    Im assuming thats it started life in a HP laptop. Would anyone know if there is a chance that it will fit into my machine and if so would i need to do much messing around or would it be a straight swap.

    Many Thanks in advance

    Neogen
     
    neogen, Jan 17, 2008
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  2. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    You cannot put a single core socket 774 cpu in there. You have socket S1, so you need S1 processors, which only came in dual core flavor.
     
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    neogen Newbie

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    thanks for the answer mate, so am i right in assuming i could use pretty much any S1 cpu in there as long as its dual core?

    Many thanks
     
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  4. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    Yes, but recently they also released single core S1 cpus, but I don't see why you would wanna go from a dual core to single.
     
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  5. Evolution

    Evolution Vox Sola

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    Glad to see that you caught that ;)

    neogen you can use any current AMD processor that uses socket S1; no matter if it is a sempron(single core), turion(single core[MK] or dual core[X2]) or the new athlon x2[TK] (dual core). However I agree with adinu avoid single core processors there is no reason to use them when you can use a dual core processor.
     
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  6. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    Yeh forgot about this mk series of processors, I was only thinking of the TL and TK.
     
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    thanks for the answer. does anyone know however where i can get the new athlon 64 x2? i have searched and all i come up with is full laptops.

    I have also ordered 4 gig of Crucial Ram, so im hoping ill notice a performance difference in vista lol
    Thanks for all your help so far
     
    neogen, Jan 18, 2008
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