Turning an old Laptop into a gaming Laptop...

sunnysideup7 · Jun 24, 2015

i have an old 7 windows laptop, the specs are,

Type of laptop: Aspire -Acer 5332
CPU: Intel Celeron
CPU speed: 1.8ghz
RAM: 3GB
Graphics card: Intel Chipsets

I was thinking of putting a new motherboard and new graphics card in and make it into a high end gaming laptop, i want to keep it as windows 7.

I want to run games like Assassin's creed unity and new high end games that will be coming out and play them on high settings

Could I do that? and what motherboard and graphics card do i need to get and of cause I will get new ram and a new CPU.

StarChief · Jun 24, 2015

I don't think you can do the things you describe to that laptop, laptops aren't generally modifiable in any way.

utgotye · Jun 24, 2015

By the time you were done, you could have just bought a new laptop and been playing for quite a while and paid less. So you should just buy a new laptop.

atheus · Jun 24, 2015

I've never heard of putting a new motherboard and graphics card into a laptop aside from an OEM replacement. I think you're stuck with buying a new laptop, or buying a desktop... which would have upgradable parts. There is no standard laptop motherboard mount like ATX, since laptops tend to be individually designed to be as compact as possible.

NunoAntunes · Jun 24, 2015

And if you have no experience on laptop assembly, you'd probably break it before being able to disassemble it all, like I almost did.
Recent laptops are made to be really tricky to open and almost impossible to disassemble without instructions. For example, when I tried do clean my laptop cooler (sounds simple enough), I realized I had to unscrew about 20 bolts, take off the battery, take off a hidden wire, disassemble the keyboard, speaker, then the screen, then take the Wifi expansion thing, then take the hdd, then open it, take off the cd rom, then take off the mobo without breaking a really thin hidden wire. Only then I would have access to the cooler. And then I'd have to assemble it all back together...So I just gave up before I'd break everything into pieces.
To sum it up, don't try to do it because if you break something, there's a chance your computer might turn into a paperweight.

gwapito · Jun 24, 2015

Could I do that? and what motherboard and graphics card do i need to get and of cause I will get new ram and a new CPU.

If you are not a techy guy, i would advice just to buy a better notebook or a gaming desktop.
Technically its possible, if acer build a series of nb with the same model. You may be able to interchange parts. Try to contact acer for compatible mobo replacement/upgrade

g-unit1111 · Jun 24, 2015

StarChief :

This is correct - especially on any type of late model Acer or any other name brand laptop (Dell, Fujitsu, Lenovo, MSI, Apple, etc etc). Desktop parts are not compatible with laptop chassis and vice versa. MSI apparently debuted this ridiculous looking contraption at Computex that allows laptops to utilize desktop GPUs but it apparently only works on their really high end systems such as the GS 60 or above.

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