Acer Aspire V5 Upgrade Ram
Luz Ignasiak
I have an Acer Aspre 5349, I replaced the hard drive from the orginal 320 GB ATA 300 with 5400 rpm to 500 GB SATA with 5400 rpm I also upgraded the memory from 2GB to 8GB also using a 2GB flash card for ready boost; runs great only thing is I still have a slow Intel cpu with only 1.6 GHz. I want to upgrade to an Intel i7 2640m with 2.8 Ghz. Was wondering if anyone has tried this or made similer upgrades? Also open to sugestions on other cpu's that will be compatible with this chip set.
I tried an i5 2.7ghz two days ago in my 5349 (came with celeron dual core b800 1.5ghz) and my computer wouldn't even turn on. i put the old cpu back in and it fired up like normal, so i'm not sure if the cpu needed more power than the computer could give it, just wasn't compatible, or if the bios/chipset wouldn't support it. i did some research and found you can upgrade safely to an i3 (2330 i think and also 2.0-2.5ghz), but above that, i honestly can't find anyone who knows. i've searched the net for weeks now trying to find out if the motherboard/bios can handle more, but just can't find anyone with that answer. hope this helps you out.
I suspect that you were using an Ivy Bridge i5. I think if you stick to a Sandy Bridge CPU it will work. I am shopping for one on Ebay myself right now and will report back if I get something faster transplanted. I really want an i7-2620 but I'm too cheap to spill $120 on a cpu. I see i5-2430's going for around $50. That's more my speed.
I am getting the same cpu for christmas as Davidmasurik upgraded his laptop with. How is the cpu working in your laptop David? I also purchased 8GB ram for the system. I hope to do some swift computing in the future.
Hi Dave321. My acer with the upgrade is still running fine and have not had any problems with the upgrades that I did even though I live in a hot place I haven't had a days problem and my laptop is running 24 hour's. Merry Christmas and I hope you get it right.[edited for privacy]
I'm using an Acer Aspire ES1-533 laptop. I already have Ubuntu 18.04 installed and I'm really happy with the OS. Installing 18.04 was a nightmare, but I was able to do it by following this guide _installing_ubuntu_on_acer_aspire_es15/
However trying to install 20.04 or 22.04 has proven to be impossible. I have already tried the recommendations in this thread Problems installing Ubuntu on Acer laptop to no avail. Could you guys help me please? I'm very new to Linux, but Ubuntu 18.04 isn't supported anymore and I'd like to keep using it. Many thanks in advance.
However, it boils down to why you would want to upgrade it as this is an old computer now. It only supports up to 4GB of DDR2 memory and for me that is the real bug-bear as I want to play with virtualisation. The other bottleneck on this box is the built-in graphics - that takes 256MB away from the main system memory as it is dhared memory.
If the new processor has a greater TDP, then you may need to work out whether the standard 220 Watt PSU is going to be powerful enough for it. You may need to consider whether you need a new PSU. It may be a proprietary unit; unfortunately I don't know (someone else may be able to advise though).
Thanks for the reply Angoid, basically i was donated the aspire and we use it at work for every day tasks nothing too harsh work wise but i just wanted to see if i could give it a bit more power without spending more than a 100.
It is a 64bit pc and ive upgraded it to win 7 from vista and know that it can only take 4gb of ram unfortunatly, because i would have doubled this instantly if i could so the other option is the processor but if it means changing anything but that then im leaving it be and ill do anything that needs power on the laptop.