The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Processor up-grade for Aspire 3050

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by radialman, Jan 21, 2007.

  1. radialman

    radialman Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    20
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I looked and found that the main differences between the 5050 and the 3050 are the CPUs, HD size and some other tid-bits. Both seem to have the socket S1 and have the same mobo and vid chip-set, just different processors. Can you change out the CPU? Is the 3050 ready for dual-core?
    I had posted earlier about my optical drive going bad and Acer helped out allot, the new drive works well, but I bought a LG drive and will store the stock one along with the HD. I bought a WD 80gb 5400rpm drive for it, and tested loading XP pro on a extra drive and used 90% of the drivers for the 5050 and it worked very well, I just needed .NET 1.1 to run the Acer E-programs (the ATI drivers installed .NET 2.0).
    ROb
     
    radialman, Jan 21, 2007
    #1