any idea what processor i can upgrade to on this?

[JWade]

well my laptop died over here in afghanistan and i just ordered the following:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834115257

my main reason is that i can reuse my ram i currently have. wondering if anyone knows what processor i can upgrade it to.

thanks

 

[ForumMaster]

no offense, but crappy laptop you chose. only 2 hours of battery life? better get atleast a 9 cell battery. the RAM is slow and you should have gone with atleast a Core Duo based one. i don't know what socket the Mobile AMD Turion is in, but i seriously doubt you can find a source for these CPU's.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
no offense, but crappy laptop you chose. only 2 hours of battery life? better get atleast a 9 cell battery. the RAM is slow and you should have gone with atleast a Core Duo based one. i don't know what socket the Mobile AMD Turion is in, but i seriously doubt you can find a source for these CPU's.

Suggestion: ignore this post.

It has a 6-cell battery, which is better than the 4-cell you usually get with the budget Acer notebooks. But without knowing the Watt-hours rating of the battery I couldn't give you a more accuracte battery life estimate.

The system is fine. Turion has good battery life and performs well. The DVDRW is nice, but the 4200RPM hard drive is a dog. Upgrade that first thing. What RAM did your old laptop use? Your new one can use regular DDR SODIMM's, ideally DDR333.

Turion is socket 754, but the only upgrade you can get is another Turion. The MT model Turions (like MT-40) are lower power than the ML, but of course cost more.
Retail box Turions
OEM Turions

 

[JWade]

my dead laptop has ddr333 ram, two 1gb sticks for a total of 2gb, so the acer will be upgraded to 2gb ram, i did take note of the 4200rpm drive, and plan on upgrading it in a few months maybe and using the drive in it as an external.

i liked that it had the dvd-rw drive, other i looked at for close to the same price didnt have one, they just had a combo drive.

my next question is, since i already have the ram to upgrade it, which would be better, faster rpm hard drive or faster processor? Will this Acer take the lower wattage processor?

 

[fbrdphreak]

Definitely upgrade to a newer 5400RPM drive first. That model has a 1.8GHz Turion. The 2.0GHz chips are fairly cheap, but won't provide a big performance increase. The 2.2 or 2.4GHz chips are more expensive, but would provide a more noticeable impact. Frankly I'd just leave the chip alone unless you come across a good deal. Otherwise by the time you get a new hard drive AND CPU, you could've gotten a Core Duo notebook for that price.

 

[RedBeard]

I have a Compaq V2000 laptop with a 1.8 Ghz ML Turion in it (also ATI 200m board). It also has the ML model not the cooler more effcient MT line.
I would recommend leaving the CPU alone. People who have upgraded to the Faster (2.0+) MT line on V2000 compaqs have lost some power management features. (they run full speed all the time) That and the CPU's are pretty costly. Yours might take it fine but the difference will not be worth it. I had a newer intel based entry level Acer travelmate and I had to dissasemble the entire thing to upgrade the cpu! (yours might not be like that though)

Faster HDD all the way. Make sure you read the comments on newegg. I recently got a 5400rpm Toshiba drive that ran nearly 55C all the time and failed after a month. I am going to rma it but I saw negative comments about the heat produced on newegg. Might want to check out the Seagate Momentus line, I wish I had

 

[JWade]

well got my laptop in, started it up and such with the 512mb ram, and then stuck in the 2gb i had from my old, performs pretty sweet, it came with the -34 and not the 32 model, so i have 1mb cache instead of 512k on the processor.

I am going to upgrade my HD to a 5400rpm one, Redbeard, so the Seagate ones are pretty good? I am looking for any recommendations.

 

[cheesehead]

First, ignore the "OMFG UR LAPTOP IS T3H SUXXORZ!"

I only reserve that for certian Dell laptops.

Seagate hard drives are excellent, from what I've heard; I've never owned one. I personally am a major fan of the Hitachi Travelstar line; I've had no problem at all with them, and I've owned several, from a 30gb 4200rpm in an iBook to a 60gb 7200rpm in my otherwise awful Dell 9100.