Upgraded Acer 3680 Celeron CPU to a T5300!

weird....i do have a 940gml and the ram is currently running at 667MHz....!!

 

assuming that your BIOS has support for Core2Duo CPUs,, you should be able to upgrade to a Core2Duo T5300,, and if you have a 943chipset a T5600 MIGHT work,,, we've had 2 users have T5600's work in thier laptops,,, but the memory speeds stayed at 533Mhz,,, while the CPU FSB works @ 667!!

but with a 943 a T5300 is definately supported by the Chipset... the only question is does your BIOS have microcode support for MEMROM cpus.. if so you can use a T5300 for sure.... (check the .txt file included w/ the bios flash,, most older laptops had Memrom support added years ago around june 2006)

i believe the celeron M 550 is actually a socket P cpu

your current CPU is a SOCKET M cpu... so you can't use a celeron M 550...

the core2duo's are your best bet!!!

later,
bigozone

 

you sure it's not a 945??? what program are you using to get your chipset info?? is it the most current version of that software...

i use CPUz and PCwizzard... links on page 1

later,
bigozone

 

yeah i am using cpuz....and i am positive it is a 940....says so in cpuz too....i downloaded it last week....(got 2 gig ram PC2-5300) running at 333MHz....

 

congrats,,, i'm not sure what that says about the 940/943's that only run ram @ 266/533

 

i came across a site on the net that sells processors and they provide specific fans alongwith the processors....at a premium....so does every processor has a specific fan designed for it....??

 

Not that I know of, I figure that only applies to Desktop processors because they're the most commonly upgraded.

 

i'm kinda confused by what you are asking... but i'll give it a go anyway!

Each desktop Socket style has it's own method for mounting the heatsink/fan.... but in dealing w/ laptop's each laptop model has it's own specific heatsink and that should not be replaced with anything except the exact same thing unless your notebook manufacturer has more than one type of heatsink available for your exact model... furthermore on laptops the fan doesn't sit on the heatsink,, it has a "pipe" that vents heat to the exhaust port of fan which forces the heat out the back of the laptop...

hope that helps you,
bigozone

 

Thanks for your answer, but i am confused....
if i have only the i940 chipset (Everest: i940GML) i can upgrade to a T5300, for sure???? I thought with the i940 i can only upgrade to T1350!!!!

Mainboard: Acer Myall2

PCWizard: Intel i943/940GML
CPUZ: Intel i943/940GML
Everest: i940GML

I can not find a .txt file from my bios, but it´s from 15.11.2007, so it could support it, i think???!

BIOS:
Hersteller : Phoenix Technologies LTD
Version : V1.24
Date : 11/15/2007 (mm/dd/yyyy)
DMI Version : 2.4

Acer Manual: 940GML!!!

So i think i have to decide between t1350 (1,86 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache) or the Celeron M450 (2,00GHz, 1MB L2 Cache)! Which would you take?

 

Guys, is it possible to install more than 2 GB DDR2 into Acer 3680-2633???

I have extra 512 mb and already have 2 GB DDR2 Kingston in laptop!

Thanks for answers

 

if your chipset is a 940,, then you are correct the T1350 is the only CPU other than celerons that i have seen any success reported...

wish i could tell you otherwise,, but i think your reseach is rock solid,,,

later,
bigozone

 

Last week i successfully upgraded my CPU - Celeron M 2Ghz to C2D 2.2Ghz

Thanks to bigozone for his help through out the process

 

congrats lazydesi,,

glad to hear it worked out good.... bet you are loving those new lower temps not to mention a little increase in the speed department

 

yep bigozone, it's damm fast and battery is getting around 2hr30min.

currently running ubuntu8.04 damm fast

 

main -ve is if you are in a calm room , fan voice is a bit loud

 

i must have a gotten a good CPU, my temps almost never hit 50c (right now the cpu cores are 14 & 10c)

so my fan almost never even comes on... and the entire laptop is cool to the touch..

 

lazydesi,

The Proc you used, (C2D 2.2Ghz), is it a T7400? Or something else.

 

I'll defer to the experts, but my understanding is that the T1350 is the way to go, if only for Enhanced Speedstep support (i.e., better battery life than with the Celeron).

 

Ok, so I've read about all 62 pages. I have decided to upgrade my processor to the t5200/t5300. I've verified that i have the 943i from the RAM bay and the PC wizard program.

I've got an aspire 3680-2633 with a celeron 520 m at 1600 mhz

I think that is all the relevant information. What makes me hesitant is that the disassembly seems quite the chore without that hard to find guide, if anyone can email it to me or seed it on bittorrent I would greatly appreciate it.
email = angrychair "at" comcast . net

 

try searching on youtube "dissembling acer aspire 3680" i did cum across a video once....!!

 

I can send you the service guide, it has a detailed (with pics) description on how to tear this lappy apart

 

INTEL CORE 2 DUO CPU T7500 2.2 GHZ 800 FSB

 

Wikipedia says:

Code:

945GM 	Calistoga 	82945GM (GMCH) 	ICH7-M 	January 2006 	Core 2 Duo, Core Duo, Pentium Dual-Core, Core Solo, Celeron M 	533 / 667 MHz 	DDR2 533 / 667 	4GB 	Integrated GMA 950 graphics core

I just reinstalled Vista on my Aspire 3680-2682 and it gave me this little tidbit under the welcome center.
Mobile Intel 945GM Chipset Controller 0

That means I have the capibilities for the 667MHz ram with the 667MHz FSB for the processor! Also says my computer can handle up to 4GB of RAM.

I just updated my HDD to a 7200RPM SATA 3.0 Gb/s with 16MB cache and have installed 2GB of 667MHz RAM(Kingston valueram). It is flying fast just with the celeron! I can only imagine how fast it will be with a Core 2 Duo! I am now debating on if I really want to dismantle this thing when it already runs so nice and fast now. Would the processor speed increase help improve my Gaming graphics score? Its a 3.0 and I would like to get it higher. I wonder I can play some games on this thing now...

Everything is working fine without Acers drivers, so do I really need to install them?

 

yes a C2D cpu will make a noticable difference over celeron... especially if going up to a 667 FSB & RAM transfer... when you factor in the extra core, the increased L2 cache, the increased bus speeds, and possibly higher CPU opperating speed (depends on CPU choice) you are looking at what will be another step up in performance... as far as VISTA experience scores go,, they should go up a bit... even the intergrated graphics should benifit from the increase in FSB and RAM speeds... how much?? i have no basis to say,,, i 've had VISTA downgraded since long before my CPU upgrade!

and as far as ACER drivers... if everything works the only reason i'd change would be if the manufacturer came out w/ newer versions of the drivers or if the ACER drivers were newer versions..

hope that helps you
bigozone

 

After reading the thread for quite a while, I made the leap and upgraded my 3680-2862 to a Core Duo T2250. I went cheap and got the T2250, actually an engineering sample (ES), from an eBay seller for $26 shipped which is about half of most of the T2250 prices I was seeing and a lot less than the Core2 Duo prices.

The disassembly went fairly easily with the hardest part being getting the little washers back under the heatsink arms. (That and the three undocumented screws.)

Vista recognized the processor right away, though the Device Manager actually shows me as having a Celeron M 440 and a Core Duo T2250 instead of two T2250s. Vista also feels more responsive and seems to handle video playback a lot cleaner.

I haven't had it long enough to comment on CPU temp and battery life.

My personal thanks to all of you who went down this road before me.

John

 

Congrats on your successful upgrade.. i'm sure you'll love it more and more over the next few weeks..

i personally am ready to upgrade again and step up to the 800Mhz FSB,,, maybe a T7300 or T7500 whatever i can find in the SocketP line that is not too expensive... might even look at the T8xxx series... they say they run COOL

once again,,, congrats... and enjoy

 

Has anyone applied arctic silver 5 paste....and does it help much in cooling the cpu....??
And anyone till date who has tried to upgrade the integrated graphics on their laptop..??
I have been coming up with some weird ideas lately....
cheers
Andy

 

Thanks bigozone for the info. I was just curious as to if what I consider bloatware applications like epower management actually amounted to much. Vista still gives me the same battery life as it has before in its estimated battery meter. I did install the Intel graphics media accelerator driver as I figure that one is the most important. I suppose I will also install the HD audio driver. No need to fix what isn't broken by installing the rest of that stuff.

Also with the celeron upgrade to the Santa Rosa T7200 there will be a lot less heat from what krazyphire has said which is enough of a reason that has made me all for the cpu upgrade once again. I was using my 3680 the other day for about 2.5 hours and the thing heated up terribly. I thought I was going to melt the darn thing. I will be ordering my T7200 soon along with some arctic silver 5 thermal compound as from I hear its pretty good at lowering cpu temps from all the reviews I have seen on line and have heard from these forums. I'll post my results back as soon as possible to add a second confirmation for the T7200 for the Aspire 3680-2682 list(as there should be no problems from all the info found here and extra research I have done myself).

EDIT:
@anglad1608: It is not possible to upgrade integrated graphics as there is no way to properly slide in a new graphics card into a laptop. However I have been thinking that maybe there are some unused pci ports on the motherboard that you could attach one to and just build a case extension to house it. You would need to stretch the pci connection though if your motherboard has it and then make casing for it.... sounds crazy, but if I ever get board enough and had a throw away laptop I would try it myself. Without some heavy modifications I don't think its possible. I think theoretically though its the same as a pc where adding a graphics card will have it recognized and used. Its just no place to attach it?

 

that Empowering Tech software.... all of it is major BLOAT in my oppinion,,, and the ACER TOUR (it took up 160mb on my PC).... like i said,,,, just make your ecreovery disks before you uninstall all that ACER crap.... and also there were a lot of games (freeware type crap) that is useless unless you have a 6 y/o who will be using your laptop alot..

i personally uninstall anything i don't use or can find a better optoin for!

if you have ???s about particular programs just ask.... i'll give you MY OPPINION.... for what it's worth.

later.
bigO

 

once you have your laptop up a running delete all the acer junk as soon as you can.its a memory Hog.and if you have nortans, get the removal tool and remove it.
theres plenty of free anti virus programmes out there and windows defender is not to bad as well.

ive used AVG free for two years, and I have firewall within my router so windows firewall is never on.
just in a quest for a smooth running laptop

BigO, what you upto now with your laptop

 

not much.... just trying to help a few people,,,, and posting a song or 2 in the off-topic section.....

ho yeah,,, today i undervolted my laptop to day..... max speed is at 0.950 volst,,, been running for 6 hrs

 

Hey guys, back from my vacation . How is everyone doing?

 

good to see ya back krazy.... i was thinking you had dissappeared

@krazy &/or hoggie,,

have either of you used RMClock to undervolt your CPUs??
just curious... i've been undervolted to 0.95 volts for over 24 hrs....

later,
bigO

 

Yeah I've been using it to undervolt my CPU for the past 3 months lol. 0.95 volts at "Performance on Demand" setting.

 

Hi there

I have a Aspire 5570Z
I would like to upgrade my CPU to a core 2 duo. Which is the best cpu that my notebook support
I would need to do any update like BIOS stuff?
Is it possible to upgrade to c2d T5600?
Thanks in advance

Acer Aspire 5570-2607
Intel Pentium Core duo T2080 1.73 GHz 533MHz 1Mb L2
Chipset intel i943
2GB DDR2 667 MHz upgraded
120 HDD Hitachi

 

T5600 should be fine... you might even be able go up to the T7200 or higher if you wanted to spend the cash...

but plenty of others have used the T5600 w/ the intel 943

 

welcome back mate

did you have a good time ?

 

Hehe, yeah did some swimming and went to Islands of Adventure in Orlando, FL. Then I went to see IronMan .

 

Hi....could anyone plz help me by providing some walkthrough or guide for dissembling the acer 3680 laptop (acer aspire 3682nwxci)....??

 

I am not able to remove the upper casing even after removing the keyboard and all the screws....it is stuck near the heatskink, vga socket....and there is a white socket which has 2 wires sprouting out of it....i really dunno what it is....!!
Please help....

 

i've heard tell of 3 undocumented screws not in the SG.... maybe searching for "3680 undocumented screws" might link you to the post.... or just re-read the last 10 pages of this thread

 

Big O....i did try searching for that but didnt quite find anything about screws and all..?? is there an acer manual out on the net

 

I can send you a service guide with pics, PM me.

 

thx alot for the service guide....but i am stuck at the part where i am to remove the upper casing....it does not come off from the side of the heat sink and fan....are there any connectors or screws there....??

 

If I remember correctly, thats on the left side of the laptop. It seems that the case has a tight fit around the ports and needed to be gently worked free. Make sure the PC Card slot filler is removed.

 

i had removed the pcmcia slot but there was one wire connection at the extreme upper right side....the slots on the right side were really tight i was scared about damaging the heatsink and fan....is there some special way of dissembling it or are there some more screws hidden somewhere..??

 

(From memory) Two of the screws are located about where the LCD hinges mount to the upper case, one on each side. The third is the screw located between the Kensington lock mount and the two USB ports in the rear.

 

Extreme upper right side sounds like the microphone cable.

 

on my 7110 the VGA socket nuts where holding the upper case secure.

 

I removed those....