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    Acer TimelineU M5-481TG-6814 Upgrade Path Options?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by sammy5gs, Aug 20, 2012.

  1. sammy5gs

    sammy5gs Newbie

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    Sorry for the noobish question, but I recently purchased the above model. Upon first receiving it, I am mostly pleased, but the wheels started turning to figure out how I can get more juice out of this lappy.

    Outside of adding a more meatier SSD (replacing the 500GB WD Scorpio hybrid) and the 1xDIMM slot that can take a 4GB DIMM to upgrade to 6GB total (laptop has 2GB DDR3 soldered on the board, and 1x2GB in the one dimm slot), I was wondering if it is a fool's errand to try to find out if there is a way to upgrade the CPU from the i5-3317U that is in there now to something more meatier.

    Sorry if this is in the wrong spot (i.e., maybe in the Acer forum), but I tried searching and didnt find this direct question asked.

    Let me know, and thanks in advance.
     
    sammy5gs, Aug 20, 2012
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  2. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    I would expect the CPU to be soldered (not upgradable), but I haven't been able to find any information about it.

    The i5-3317U will run up to 2.4GHz (for two cores) and there's nothing weak about that.
     
    namaiki, Aug 20, 2012
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