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    Hardware upgrade on a Aspire 9300

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by punctweb, Feb 25, 2008.

  1. punctweb

    punctweb Notebook Enthusiast

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    Good day to you all.

    I have an aspire 9300 notebook that looks like this:
    * AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology MK-38
    * Original Bus Clock 800.00
    * Original System Clock 200.00
    * L2 Cache Speed 803.67 MHz
    * Cache 64 KB L1 I-Cache, 64 KB L1 D-Cache, 512 KB L2 Cache
    * 1 GB RAM (sodimm, 2 x 512 MB - both slots occupied)
    * 80 GB hard disk drive Hitachi HTS541680J9SA00 80 GBytes SATA

    I'm trying to upgrade the RAM and HDD to this:

    *) HDD Hitachi TravelStar 5K160 (160GB, SATA 300MB/s, 8MB)

    and

    *) 2 x Sycron 1GB DDR2-800MHz (SODIMM DDR2, 800 MHz))


    My question is: are this components compatible with my notebook ? (i have searched the internet for additional technical specs for this notebook model and the results are very few and not detailed... :( ) If i buy them, will they work on my notebook ?

    If you need additional specifications for the notebook, let me know.

    Thank you in advance.
     
    punctweb, Feb 25, 2008
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  2. punctweb

    punctweb Notebook Enthusiast

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    is my question so stupid that no one will answer ? :(
     
    punctweb, Feb 26, 2008
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    reiluke Notebook Enthusiast

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    hardrive will work fine, but aspire 9300 only supports ddr2-667MHz
     
    reiluke, Feb 29, 2008
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  4. punctweb

    punctweb Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thank you for answering, but i've already done it. You can read all about it here
     
    punctweb, Feb 29, 2008
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    reiluke Notebook Enthusiast

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    it will work but it run at ddr667 downclocked, you can check the speed via cpuid/pcwizard/etc...
     
    reiluke, Mar 1, 2008
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