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    Acer Aspire V3 731-4477 Upgrades

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by devonakaozzy, Jun 11, 2013.

  1. devonakaozzy

    devonakaozzy Newbie

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    I'm looking to upgrade my laptop a bit, currently I have 4GB of DDR3 RAM, and an Intel B960 processor with Intel HD Graphics. Also a 500GB HDD. What processors can I upgrade to? and could someone tell me what ram chips I can buy? id like about 12GB of RAM, and a faster processor.. Would I have to reinstall Windows 8 (64 bit) with a new processor? I've never done anything to a computer before, but i'd definitely like to save a little bit of money by doing it myself if possible..
     
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  2. ellalan

    ellalan Notebook Deity

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    It all depends on what you use your laptop for, your cpu has a benchmark of 1891, 4GB memory is also sufficient, only upgrade I would suggest is a SSD in your laptop, get a 256GB SSD and use the 500GB HDD as an external hard drive, look around for a Samsung, Crucial M4 or a Intel drive and select whichever you like, you won't be disappointed.
     
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    tosaytheleast Notebook Guru

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    I'm not really sure if your laptop could be upgraded into an i3 or i5 CPU. But if ever that it is allowed, you could upgrade your RAM into 8GB possibly or even 12. I suggest that you confirm from Acer support if it is really possible because from what I have read online, some Pentium processors like yours do not support RAM of more than 4GB.
     
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