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#1 gerard-williams

Member since 2006 • 359 Posts

Hey there, just wondering if anyone could help me out with a tech question! I own a T180 - A244 Acer Aspire Desktop, (AMD 64 Athlon X2 Dual Core 3800+, 1GB RAM, 250GBHD, Nvidia7500LE).

When Quad Core comes out will I be able to upgrade to it, or will I have to replace the motherboard? I noticed that AMD Dual Core fits straight into single CPU motherboards without any alterations!

Any advice would be great!!

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Gerard Williams

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#2 jfelisario

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well if Acer is anything like the big general pc builders (Dell, HP), the case in non-standard case and non-standard mobo, so you can't get a new off-the-shelf mobo unless you do major reconstruction (not really worth it imho), you might need a new board for the AMD quads, not sure (Intel user here lol).

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#3 gerard-williams

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yeah, i was a heavy intel user, i have a 3ghz pentium 4 laptop, thought I'd give amd a go, very cheap cpu's. performance has been good, i think the tower is good, theres heaps of upgrade space, 3 extra slots for ram, pci express, etc, the only downside to the tower is the power supply which is 300w, acer and other companys usually only give you the power u need to run the stuff inside never any extra, so ill definately need to upgrade the power supply

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