New HD and Memory in ACER Aspire 5670 series

Hello everyone,
I own an Acer Aspire 5672AWLMI (5670 series) Inter Core duo 1,7, 2GB Ram,
Ati Mobility Radeon x1600, 120GB SATA HD @ 5400rpm.

I am thinking of making 2 upgrades after 2 years of great functionality (despite the fact that it rises high temperatures and i mostly use it on Thermaltake's TaiChi cooler)

1)Upgrade exesting HD to

Hitachi Deskstar 500 GB Internal SATA Hard Drive
7200 RPM, 16 MB Buffer - Serial ATA 3.0 Gbps


2) Upgrade RAM to 3 or 4GB


The reason i am writing is to ask if this Hard drive is compatible with my mobo or should i try to update BIOS or is not compatible at all.

What is the best option for RAM - modules, vendors etc


Thanks for taking time to review my post,
any suggestion is highly appreciated.


Regards,
A.

 

That harddrive won't fit. You need a 2.5". If you want 500GB take a look at WD5000BEVT.

If you run Vista 32bit there's not point in upgrading to 4GB. 3GB is fine.

Have you used undervolting yet? It's the easiest way to make your temperatures lower.

 

Sorry for the disk model i mention. What i meant was that i want to upgrade to a SATA drive @7200 (320 or 500 GB). I think hitachi has some of the very best drives - correct me if i m wrong.

Regarding memory, you suggest me to replace the one 1Gb dimm with one of 2Gb capacity? Do you have a couple of models in mind?


What is this overvolting you are talking about?


Regards,
A.

 

Undervolting: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=235824&highlight=undervolting

Do that first, because you don't want to buy a 7200rpm drive if you have heat problems in your laptop.

For memory just go to your prefered supplier (newegg?) and search for a 2GB sodimm. My experience is that brand names don't matter much. Post the link here so other people can give feedback.

Something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...309121116 1309221136&name=DDR2 667 (PC2 5300)

 

Don't buy just any memory, go for 667MHz with CL4 and not CL5.

"5672 Memory Upgrade with benchmark results (667MHz CL4 RAM)"
I'm not allowed to post URL's yet, but you should be able to find it with the last part of the link anyway -> showthread.php?p=4061514

 

I am looking at upgrading my HDD as well, I posted my notes in a reply to another thread on this forum:

"Aspire 5672 Hard Drive Upgrde" (his spelling, not mine...)
showthread.php?p=4062144 (since I can't post a full URL yet )

 

you can upgrade the memory to cl5 or cl4, it really will not make any difference in real life performance, only in synthetic benchmarks.

Your system uses standard thickness 9.5mm thick 2.5" SATA harddrives. The fastest mechanical drives currently on the market are the latest generation 7200rpm drives. In this category, the 250gb model and the 80gb models are exceptionally fast. The 80Gb model uses only the outer part of the disk, making it by far the fastest mechanical drive. The dip (curve) in hdtune is almost a straight line with the 80gb model, because it uses the fastest part of the disk, thus avoiding full strokes.
The 250Gb model uses the outer 7 gb of the platter which the 160 and 320gb models do not, making it slightly faster than the 160/320gb models.
The 80Gb is faster than the 250Gb model, but 80gb is not enough capacity for most people.

K-TRON

 

Well thank you all for your replies. Upgrading a notebook it still an isue... although there are plenty of after-market parts nowdays that make notbook look realy upgradable...
I think i will upgrade to 250 @ 7200 but firstrly need to see the thermal isue because my notebook is one of the realy hot models (temperature of the cpu is about 87-89c and core 92-94 c). I found undervoltaging as a solution but i am afraid that i will may damage my system or affect its performance + it need lots of hours testing step by step voltages...i ll see...

 

undervolting will not harm your system in any way. The only downfall is that it takes time to set all of the voltages and find stability on each multiplier.
However you can try searching through the undervolting guide, and see if someone has the same laptop and cpu in their, so you can just take their already determined settings, thus saving you the time and hassel of finding stability.

What cpu do you have in your laptop?
There are a few cpu's, which are very voltage friendly, so you can set all of the multipliers down to the lowest voltage without loosing stability.

K-TRON

 

Hello and thanks for taking time to respond.
My CPU is Intel Core DUO T2250 (1,73Ghz, 533FSB, 2MB L2 Cache)
Notebook ACER Aspire 5672AWLMi (5670 series)

 

your cpu should not be getting as hot as it is. Luckily you have a very voltage flexible cpu.
You can run every multiplier at 0.950VOlts, and it will run completely stable.
The T2250 is almost identical to the T5300 I have, which runs the same die. Mine just has virtualization technology and yours does not. However your core will run stable at 0.950volts on every multiplier as does mine.
So download cpu rightmark, and follow the undervolting guide.
From their set the profile to performance on demand, and select all of teh multipliers to run 0.950Volts.

Than save and everything should run cooler from their.

Good luck,

let us know what happens
You can use "core temp" or "hwmonitor" to read the temperatures before and after.

K-TRON

 

Could I use memory with FSB 800Mhz in aspire 5670?

 

You can, but it will downclock to PC5300 speeds or PC4200 speeds depending upon the chipset and the cpu in your laptop.
If you have the PC6400 on hand, it will work.
But if youre buying the memory, stick with PC5300.
The maximum memory bus on any socket M cpu is 667MHz, so having PC6400 is really pointless. The memory simply clocks down from 800MHz to 667MHz speed

K-TRON