Hi All,
Need some help as im having some issues upgrading my laptop, the laptop is fairly old now Acer aspire 5551 probably 2010
Basically it has the stock AMD athlon 2.10 Ghz P320 which im upgrading
I purchased a Phenom P650 2.6Ghz socket S1g4
The Phenom II unfortunately is not recognised by the Bios/Windows 7/8 or CPU-z and seems to be giving me poor frame rates in games. I upgraded to the last Bios update acer provided for this laptop which was the revision. 2.14 with no joy
The support from the service manual list the below processors, i know there are a number of other available Socket S1g4 upgrades which arent listed as these probably came out after the service manual - also i am only interested in the 25w CPU's
I have the option to go for a turion P540 (2.3ghz) or the Turion P560 (2.5Ghz) but i need to know the 2.14 bios will recognise these CPU's before paying the £15-£20 for one... not much but dont want the same issues as the Phenom II
CPU/Chipset
AMD V Series processor V120 (512 KB L2 cache, 2.20 GHz, 3.2GT/s, 25 W) (Aspire 5251) AMD M880G Chipset (Aspire 5251)
AMD Phenom II triple-core mobile processor N830 (1.5 MB L2 cache, 2.10 GHz, 3.6GT/s, 35 W) (Aspire 5551/5551G)
AMD Turion II dual-core mobile processor P520/N530 (2 MB L2 cache, 2.30/2.50 GHz, 3.6GT/s, 25/35 W) (Aspire 5551/5551G)
AMD Athlon II dual-core processor P320/N330 (1 MB L2 cache, 2.10/2.30 GHz, 3.2GT/s, 25/35 W) (Aspire 5551/5551G) AMD RS880M and SB820M Chipset (Aspire 5251/5551/5551G)
Ive also bought 8gb of 1066mhz samsung ram to upgrade and have had some issues with this also with the phenom as it keeps BSOD which makes me think the memory controller isnt working efficiently as the ram works fine with Athlon xII P320
Ive spoken with Acer and they are quite frankly useless (Indian support centre with no expertise) they just say they dont recommend upgrades... Really...poor
Help is appreciated
Need some help as im having some issues upgrading my laptop, the laptop is fairly old now Acer aspire 5551 probably 2010
Basically it has the stock AMD athlon 2.10 Ghz P320 which im upgrading
I purchased a Phenom P650 2.6Ghz socket S1g4
The Phenom II unfortunately is not recognised by the Bios/Windows 7/8 or CPU-z and seems to be giving me poor frame rates in games. I upgraded to the last Bios update acer provided for this laptop which was the revision. 2.14 with no joy
The support from the service manual list the below processors, i know there are a number of other available Socket S1g4 upgrades which arent listed as these probably came out after the service manual - also i am only interested in the 25w CPU's
I have the option to go for a turion P540 (2.3ghz) or the Turion P560 (2.5Ghz) but i need to know the 2.14 bios will recognise these CPU's before paying the £15-£20 for one... not much but dont want the same issues as the Phenom II
CPU/Chipset
AMD V Series processor V120 (512 KB L2 cache, 2.20 GHz, 3.2GT/s, 25 W) (Aspire 5251) AMD M880G Chipset (Aspire 5251)
AMD Phenom II triple-core mobile processor N830 (1.5 MB L2 cache, 2.10 GHz, 3.6GT/s, 35 W) (Aspire 5551/5551G)
AMD Turion II dual-core mobile processor P520/N530 (2 MB L2 cache, 2.30/2.50 GHz, 3.6GT/s, 25/35 W) (Aspire 5551/5551G)
AMD Athlon II dual-core processor P320/N330 (1 MB L2 cache, 2.10/2.30 GHz, 3.2GT/s, 25/35 W) (Aspire 5551/5551G) AMD RS880M and SB820M Chipset (Aspire 5251/5551/5551G)
Ive also bought 8gb of 1066mhz samsung ram to upgrade and have had some issues with this also with the phenom as it keeps BSOD which makes me think the memory controller isnt working efficiently as the ram works fine with Athlon xII P320
Ive spoken with Acer and they are quite frankly useless (Indian support centre with no expertise) they just say they dont recommend upgrades... Really...poor
Help is appreciated
