I have an Acer 3002 laptop that currently has an AMD Sempron 2800+/1.6 GHz processor with a 256KB. I was wondering if there was any cost-effective way to upgrade the processor to something faster?
they don't have a support forum so, if anyone is familiar with this particular model and knows about upgrading CPU's there help would be immensely appreciated. Thanks
As mentioned CPU's aren't upgradeable (rarely the case that they are) and it would cost a heck of a lot. Not to mention it isn't as easy as doing it normally.
I unscrewed and lifted up. Apparently I got one of the 3 laptop models that Dell made upgradeable. Lucky me
I agree that buying a new cpu costs so much you might as well get a new laptop. You could only upgrade to another Sempron anyways, which I doubt would be any faster than a 3000+.
check out the heat dissapation with newer CPU. as Laptops come designed with appropriate heatsink for the CPU. you may be able to put in Turion processor providing that it is of same heat level as of sempron.