In the end the guide was useless because the entire upgrade process is rather straightforward for someone accustomed to play with hardware since many years, and it didn’t help me anyway when at the first start-up after the upgrade the screen didn’t show any sign of life. After having checked compatibility between the new component and the chipset, on January I purchased the CPU on eBay for 249 pounds/284.31 euros (free shipping from the United Kingdom) and soon after I installed it on the PC with the aid of this short visual guide found on-line. Doing the proper research I learned that the platform on which the Aspire 6935G (G means discrete Graphic component) is based, the PM45 chipset also known by the “Cantiga” codename, has the GHz Quad Core and the GHz Dual Core at its performance top.īeing at the moment unsure if I could adequately exploit the parallel computing capabilities offered by a Quad Core, I’ve convinced myself that an X9100 Core 2 Duo would have been the ideal upgrade to push my laptop’s performances. Nowadays a 2 GHz clock is below the minimum required for a decent computing experience, and in my case it quickly showed to be inadequate. The laptop Acer Aspire 6935G I purchased in November featured an Intel T6400 Core 2 Duo 64-bit processor with a 2.00 GHz clock, 2 MB level 2 cache and 800 MHz FSB. But being obliged to spend a limited budget obviously didn’t hinder me to upgrade the system main component, the CPU, overlapping to satisfaction the pleasure of having a fairly recent setup to let me use it in scenarios that are a little less retrograde than the ones I’m usually accustomed to.
I purchased my latest computer in absolute emergency conditions, and except for an annoying, sound-related issue when I extensively use the network (a fact for which I would be inclined to blame and damn Vista SP1) I’m satisfied with it until now. I advise anyone against this kind of practice and I invite you to read the post regarding my useless troubleshooting efforts. UPDATE: After a few months the CPU upgrade turned to be a remarkable failure.
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