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    upgrade acer 5738g

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by giorgo_s, Jul 18, 2012.

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    Hello,

    I am not very informed about hardware compatibility issues and how laptops are upgraded.

    I own a Acer 5738G laptop with the following specs.

    CPU Intel® Core™2 Duo processor T6600
    Clock Speed (GHz) 2.2
    Cache 2MB
    FSB (MHz) 800
    Screen 15.6" WXGA
    Graphics ATI Radeon HD 4570
    Graphics Memory 512M-DDR3 (64*16*4)
    RAM Slot 1 2GB
    RAM Slot 2 2GB
    HDD 1 320GB
    Optical Drive 8x DVD-RW
    Card Reader 5 in 1-Build in
    Wireless 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N
    Battery 6CELL2.2
    WebCam 0.3M DV
    USB Slots 4
    OS Windows 7 Home Premium
    Battery Life up to 3.5 Hours
    I/0 Ports: "5-in-1 card reader (SD™
    MMC
    MS
    MS PRO
    XD)
    Four USB 2.0 ports
    HDMI™ port with HDCP support

    (from Acer Aspire 5738G, 15.6 inch, Laptop, Intel Core 2 Duo T6600, 4GB RAM, 320GB, ATI Radeon HD4570, Windows 7 Home Premium, WebCam: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories )


    I need something more powerfull to allow easier multitasking, but at this time I cannot afford to buy a new one , so I am thinking to find some used parts on ebay and ugrade the existing old acer 5738G.

    First and most important I need a new more powerfull cpu.
    Does anybody knows which cpus are compatible with the model and which one believes it is worth to install?

    Second I would like to upgrade the hard disk to something faster .
    SSD is the best but I cannot pay more than 100EUR for hard disk and with that money I do not think i can find SSD > 250GB. So a sata 7200rpm we be for sure a good replacement for the 5400.

    As for memory now I have 4GB but I do not know if it is DDR2 or 3 . Can someone help here?
    If it is DDR2 is the laptop compatible with DDR3?

    Waiting for your replies.
     
    giorgo_s, Jul 18, 2012
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