Acer Aspire 5532 CPU upgrade help?

Hello all, this is my first post, so please bare with me. I just purchased my first laptop, I wanted a cheap, but functional laptop, so I choose the Acer Aspire 5532. I've been building and repairing PCs for years, but I have never messed with Laptop repair other then software issues and replacing RAM. I decided to upgrade the CPU to a AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual Core TL60. I started to try and disassemble the laptop, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do so. I've looked for tutorials for the 5532 with no luck, and I've looked at video tutorials on youtube, but they don't have any for the 5532. Can someone please give me some insight, or point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance!!!

 

I strongly recommend you to save your money.
There is very little performance improvement in a clock increase in K8 Processors.

 

The processor upgrade won't help... this series of processors is very crippled... If u really want to disassemble it , try looking for the manual on the acer website...

 

He may have the single-core 1.6ghz TF-20. In that case, going to a dual-core as stated, really should help.

I've seen dual-core S1 socket chips as cheap as $5 on eBay.

Plus, I have a free TL-60 I want to swap in mine .

Help him (me!) out...

 

Yeah I have the single core el cheapo model, so I'm hoping that going to dual-core would help out at least with multi-tasking...

 

The5Venomz, I have the same laptop as you do and I purchased the TL-50 dual core processor from the ebay link that jjmIII posted and upgraded my laptop to dual core today. I used this guide to take my laptop apart:

http://www.darntoothysam.com/blog/2010/01/upgrading-the-amd-cpu-on-an-acer-5532-laptop/

Hope this helps you out.

 

http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/Manuals/acer/2009/ServiceGuides/SG_Aspire_5532_10192009.pdf

LOL....just under a year later, and I finally did the upgrade! Well worth it for how cheap the chips are. I actually sold the old TF-20 for $7 on eBay .

 

Well that was a bit of a silly thread bump but since I happen to have an AMD laptop now I may post here soon.
I have been wondering about the mhz thing, and now I have an rm-77 2.3ghz waiting to be overclocked. I had a ql-62 before and it was running at 2.5ghz, so I am eager to see the difference with 3dmark06.

 

Hey there,

I'd say there's few improvements you'll get with AMD mobile chip upgrades.. Plus it might increase your cooling system's pressure. I'd say keep it like this. Upgrade the memory as the only thing you'd upgrade.. and then just throw it away when it's too terribly slow and buy a refurbished Intel with DDR2 Chip and then put memory back in that one. AMD mobile is just not so advanced. At least in power and performance managements.

 

So you saying my $5 upgrade from a 1.6 single-core to a 1.8 dual-core was a waste of time?

BTW, I ended up using a 65nm TL-56. Keep in mind this model laptop also came with dual-cores, so thermals are not a problem!

 

I put a 45 watt i7 quad inside a Dell Latitude E6410, which is only meant for 35 watt processors. No heat issues at all: http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...48126-dell-latitude-e6410-i7-720qm-works.html

 

Er, who exactly are you advising?
I have 1 modern AMD laptop and 2 processors for it, also have about 7 c2d mobile systems which don't fall short of 2ghz (half 3ghz).
Furthermore, speculation of what you would say (if you had any data backing it up?) is not very productive.

Like I said, I will post back with some tests on an rm-77 @ 2.8ghz + and then we will have some interesting comparison.