Laptop Upgrade

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 22nd November 2015, 06:27 AM

A year or two ago I was given an Acer Travelmate 6492 . came with windows 7 ultimate,, a whole 1gb of ram and a T7100 cpu.

Its no rocketship.

Last night I had one of those happy coincidences when net research and e-bay magically combine.

so 2x2gb 200pin sodimms are on their way from China,, (a whopping $24) with a new T7800 ($30 and 2.6ghz) to keep it company.

It should all just bolt in,,

**Eevo** · 22nd November 2015, 10:19 AM

is the cpu up-gradable?
on most laptops they are soldiered in and not changeable.

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 22nd November 2015, 11:45 AM

I suppose we'll find out

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 24th November 2015, 11:01 AM

after a bit of exploration,
I'm faced with this,,

I assume those tiny screws have to come off the silver fan cover then the whole lot tilts up and slides out?

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 25th November 2015, 03:01 PM

more investigation shows,,
Intel T 7100,
two state of the ark ram modules, (I consider it fortunate there are two!)

at the risk of wearing out my welcome --

I can clean the cpu paste up no probs,,
but I gather the gpu(or whatever that shiney thing is) is cooled via a heatpad, should/can I replace it?
it is a purpley blue colour

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 26th November 2015, 04:24 PM

no guts no glory,,

I bought a cheap kingston Hyper X 120gb ssd($65) to replace the old 2.5.

just cloning c drive as we speak

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 26th November 2015, 07:28 PM

sigh,,
you knew it was all too easy,,
cloning went well and fairly quick for around 28gb,,
went to shut down to swap drives,,
and windows updates tell me there are 131 updates to load,,
3.5 hours later its just finished configuring and now of course I have to reclone the drive

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 27th November 2015, 06:17 AM

I swapped drives this morning,
the new ssd's are all 7mm so the included packing plate was used, I also had to pack 3 sides as there was around a 4mm gap.

The windows Hard Drive performance rating went from 4.5 to 7.6.

7.9 is max.

In real terms the difference is amazing

The little Acer should be well capable of flight(if still no rocket) when the new ram and cpu arrive.

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 27th November 2015, 06:41 AM

Its now on its final journey to Win 10

hey,, its free!
(for the moment

)

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 16th May 2018, 06:11 AM

wont even switch on for some reason,,, hmmm

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