CPU upgrade and RAM - Acer ax1310

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13MDB
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edited March 1 in 2019 Archives
I have an older Acer ax1310 desk top computer I would like to upgrade the CPU It has the AMD Athlon II x2 that it originally came with. It runs ok I am currently running Linux mint on it and would like to try to get a little more out of this computer.

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  • Gawain
    Gawain Member Posts: 373 Seasoned Practitioner WiFi Icon
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    have you already changed the stock hdd to an ssd?
  • MaClane
    MaClane ACE Posts: 35,598 Trailblazer
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    Gawain said:
    have you already changed the stock hdd to an ssd?
    SSD upgrade only increases read and write speeds, but not in processing.
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  • MaClane
    MaClane ACE Posts: 35,598 Trailblazer
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    Good afternoon 13MDB !

    What EXACT model of your computer?
    Example: AX1031-U1312


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  • Gawain
    Gawain Member Posts: 373 Seasoned Practitioner WiFi Icon
    edited November 2019
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    also, which desktop environment are your runnnig - gnome/xfce/cinnamon etc.  All play a big role on older hardware.  As an example, i am writing from an old acer with a quad core temash amd (1Ghz) but with an sdd, it runs much better than with the old mechanical drive (basically because you are reading/writing system files whenever you do anything along with the background processes for the operating system).  With gnome, it's terrible as it's a high resource use environment, same goes for cinnamon.  But is great with xfce, or kde (opensuse) or even deepin (with manjaro).   as It's a athlon 2, is this pc a little under 10 years old?

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