I was given a Acer Aspire 5517 a few years ago from my mother, she was tired of the old hunk of junk and was going to throw it away, I on the other hand saw a perfectly good laptop to try and run Linux on, in the end i found i did not like linux so i put in on a shelf and forgot about it. A couple of weeks ago i started using it again for some LAN game action at my place to play Artemis ans stuff, the Laptop has a HD 3200 integrated GPU so i has a really decent DX9 GPU for a laptop, it might even be faster then the i3 first gen intel HD graphics in my other laptop but that 1.6GHz TF-20 is painful to use, Vista does not make it and better to use with the slow CPU.
So i was wondering if the CPU was socketed and it is, looks like with some work I will be able pop out the old CPU and upgrade to a TF-64 x2 with a BIOS update, i took a quick look on ebay and they look like they are going for around 40-50$ so i might just do it.
So if and when i do this i will like to lean on the [H] community for some help, i have never upgraded more then ram and SSD's in laptops so i will probably run in to some hurdles, also i read on a Acer forum that some one upgraded to the latest BIOS and upgraded to a TF-64x2 and it would not post, other however have had success so maybe he got a bad CPU or i might have to get custom BIOS for the upgrade.
Current Specs are:
2GB of Ram, 256MB shared to the GPU (i should probably get a 4GB stick or should i get 2 2GB sticks?)
1.6GHz single core CPU TF-20
128GB SSD
Vista 64x Service pack 2 (i wont update past this point, the windows updater says it need to upgrade but when it tries it just eats 100% of the CPU and does nothing, i left it for 2 days and it was still upgrading, ask M$ for help and they told me Vista is not supported and to turn off updates, if anyone know how to fix this im all ears other wise updates stay off )
HD 3200 integrated GPU, BUS PCI (it says it has 874MB of fast ram so it might have its own memory coupled with the system mem, maybe not i have to look in to it)
let me know what you guys think, any feed back is appreciated
So i was wondering if the CPU was socketed and it is, looks like with some work I will be able pop out the old CPU and upgrade to a TF-64 x2 with a BIOS update, i took a quick look on ebay and they look like they are going for around 40-50$ so i might just do it.
So if and when i do this i will like to lean on the [H] community for some help, i have never upgraded more then ram and SSD's in laptops so i will probably run in to some hurdles, also i read on a Acer forum that some one upgraded to the latest BIOS and upgraded to a TF-64x2 and it would not post, other however have had success so maybe he got a bad CPU or i might have to get custom BIOS for the upgrade.
Current Specs are:
2GB of Ram, 256MB shared to the GPU (i should probably get a 4GB stick or should i get 2 2GB sticks?)
1.6GHz single core CPU TF-20
128GB SSD
Vista 64x Service pack 2 (i wont update past this point, the windows updater says it need to upgrade but when it tries it just eats 100% of the CPU and does nothing, i left it for 2 days and it was still upgrading, ask M$ for help and they told me Vista is not supported and to turn off updates, if anyone know how to fix this im all ears other wise updates stay off )
HD 3200 integrated GPU, BUS PCI (it says it has 874MB of fast ram so it might have its own memory coupled with the system mem, maybe not i have to look in to it)
let me know what you guys think, any feed back is appreciated