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Help on selecting a CPU for a laptop upgrade

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Hi everyone,

I recently purchased an Acer Aspire 4810t (timeline) and I was wanting to upgrade the CPU in it to a dual core. The single core thing just isn't doing it for me. I mainly use it for school and often multitask on it. I have noticed that the thing gets rather sluggish when I'm trying to do multiple things at once, which isn't surprising given the single core.

I looked at the CPUz of it and the thing has an Intel Core 2 solo (running at 1.4GHz) which is a socket p. I haven't yet done some research on CPUs for it, but I was hoping to get some refining on if I should and what type of dual core would work best. I'm thinking the Core 2 Duo, but I'm not sure the voltage requirements of the CPU and if my mainboard will be able to handle the extra load. I know my battery life will go down with a new CPU, I'm not too worried about that. I would just like a bit more performance from the thing.

Any suggestion would be greatly welcomed.

Thanks

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So, I've been poking around the internet and I found this little jewel.

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?nam [...] 6ae84abbc9

I've been looking on the Intel website as well, looking to make sure that this CPU will fit into my socket P. My CPUz says that it is a socket P (478) But it doesn't much more information than that. I wish I knew if this CPU would fit into the socket on my laptop. Can someone clarify this for me? On the Intel website it says that this is a socket PBGA479 or PPGA478. I think my Acer is the latter, the PPGA478, again, I'm not terribly certain as I don't know much about the laptop motherboard.

Reply to jennaron

Are you sure the cooling, power delivery and BIOS will be up to it?

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I;m not really sure. I was hoping that someone here would have more information for me about that. There is not a lot of information available for this laptop... though I'm not sure why. Perhaps I am not looking in the right place.

Reply to jennaron

from what i can find the best you can put in that is an SU7300 which is a core 2 duo but i have not been able to locate just the chip but thats what you should be looking for the t7700 will not work.

Reply to SAAIELLO

The su7300 was the best acer offered to put in it. I researched the motherboard in that and it says it supports others which you can see here.

http://ark.intel.com/chipset.aspx?familyID=33421

i did search for a couple of those processors on the list and i found one that looked intresting on ebay check it out.

http://cgi.ebay.com/INTEL-core-duo [...] 1e5a62e26d

Reply to SAAIELLO

great! Thanks so much for the help. I didn't even think of looking at the motherboard support list. Brilliant.

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