2022 version of ACER ASPIRE 5730Z CPU UPGRADE?

Please excuse me for for being a technological dinosaur.

I tried following the links in the latest thread (2016?) onto the Intel site but didn't know how discern what CPUs I can upgrade to.

I have an Acer Aspire 5730-4163 (5730Z) that currently has a Intel Pentium T3200, serial # LXAUE0X180 that is used for when we travel and as a bakup computer in case my PC dies. As you can imagine it's pretty slow compared to my PC. My thoughts are to upgrade the CPU, after the CPU is upgraded maybe I can put more than 4GB of memory into it, and then maybe a SSD.

I 'think' based on a YouTube video that the CPU pops in and out of the socket and is not soldered. If it's soldered I'm done.

Even if I can upgrade the CPU is it worth while?

Thanks for the help.

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JackE

Any 2.5" SSD should work up to 2TB without issues. The 1TB WD and Crucial units mentioned above are about the best deals on the planet right now for 1TB SSD. The SSD will significantly decrease the Mint boot time especially since you have such an old WD HDD dinosaur in there now.

You can use the exactly same mounting hardware for the old 2.5" WD HDD that you already have in there if you prefer. I don't use the hardware as it's crowded enough inside without adding more brackets and screws. I only use a few pieces of antistatic foam that will satisfactorily immobilize and protect the drive inside the case.

Upgrading the CPU will do absolutely nothing for the maximum RAM capacity. The mainboard RAM buss is limited to 4GB. Here's the crucial link to your model's SSD upgrades. https://www.crucial.com/compatible-upgrade-for/acer/aspire-5730z DDR2 ram is being phased out of stock at most major upgrade suppliers but still available from many smaller memory distributors.

What are the six filenames you got from the crucial scan? Mint can usually handle them if you can tell me what the full filenames are. Though I don't think they'll give you much more details than this link. My workhorse PCs only use Mint Cinnamon like the one I'm using right now to post this message.

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JackE

While the CPU can be changed, the absolute biggest speed bang for the buck is changing the 2.5" HDD to a 2.5" SSD such as the WD blue series or Crucial MX500 series about the two best deals on the planet right now. Next would be going for two 2GB DDR2 sodimms. Last & least is changing to a faster socketP mobile duo CPU such as those below. There are other socketPs that will work but probably not noticeably affect the snap as much as an SSD. Go to crucial.com and run their scanner on that old heap to see what it recommends for upgrades.

StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/670559/2022-version-of-acer-aspire-5730z-cpu-upgrade

Just to add some more info that you can look at in regard to your cpu upgrade, this circa 2012 Aspire 5730Z with its OEM Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 (Socket P) CPU ( 2 GHz / FSB 667MHz / 4 MB L2 Cache / TDP 35W) you can upgrade this cpu to a higher spec Socket P that all have a TDP of 35W type cpu's like and from the T7200 type cpu and right up to the top T7800 type cpu that that the latter will give you about 30% increase in cpu frequency but its also advisable to increase the ram to 4GB total and to a 2.5" ssd as all these upgrades will increase this laptops performance by at least 150% to what you have now.

With the ram, you need the DDR2 200pin types of OEM Acer fitted 2GB ram highlighted below, as all the 2GB ram was fitted to the upper spec 5730's laptop that have 2GB paired modules into this laptop two ram slots. One of the ram types that you should use is the EBE21UE8ACUA-6E-E Elpida 2GB PC2-5300 DDR2-667MHz non-ECC Unbuffered CL5 200-Pin SoDimm Dual Rank Memory Module or you can even go up to the upper spec 2GB DDR2 PC2-6400 800Mhz.

With this laptops HDD (as it came with a mechanical 2.5" drive) this laptops interfaced is the SATA-2 at 3.0Gbps but, you can fit the latest 2.5" SATA-3 6.0Gbps interface SSD's as that will improve this laptop read/write speeds tremendously and will make it work right up to this laptops max performance, use whatever 2.5" SSD that you want, I would put a mid-range type of a 2.5: ssd also with the OS either Win-7 or Win-10 install the Intel® Driver & Support Assistant to get the appropriate intel drivers for this laptop as Acer have stopped support for this laptop.

Good luck and hope this helps you out as once you upgrade this laptop to all the suggested upgrades, this laptop will be a perfect secondary either 32bit Win-7 or even Win-10 32bit MBR formatted laptop as an upgrade from its OEM Vista OS.

This is all the Acer suggest DDR2 type ram for the Aspire 5730Z, the highlighted ram is all the 2GB modules.

username2345

Thank you for all of the comments. one thing I did leave out is that I am running Linux Mint as the OS. When I try to run the Crucial scan all I get is 6 files and none are executable. I tried doing it manually but I couldn't relate my laptop to the available models.

I have 4GB (2 banks) of memory installed: SODIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns).

Drives: Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 53.85 GiB (18.1%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD3200BEVT-22ZCT0 size: 298.09 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>

Will any SSD work? Do I need some sort of cradle to mount it?
Would upgrading the CPU allow me to have more RAM? I know I only have the two slots. Do I need anymore RAM since I don't do gaming?

Booting up is slow as well as updating the OS. If those would speed up drastically I'd be happy.

I apologize if the answer is right in front of me but I don't see it.

JackE

Any 2.5" SSD should work up to 2TB without issues. The 1TB WD and Crucial units mentioned above are about the best deals on the planet right now for 1TB SSD. The SSD will significantly decrease the Mint boot time especially since you have such an old WD HDD dinosaur in there now.

You can use the exactly same mounting hardware for the old 2.5" WD HDD that you already have in there if you prefer. I don't use the hardware as it's crowded enough inside without adding more brackets and screws. I only use a few pieces of antistatic foam that will satisfactorily immobilize and protect the drive inside the case.

Upgrading the CPU will do absolutely nothing for the maximum RAM capacity. The mainboard RAM buss is limited to 4GB. Here's the crucial link to your model's SSD upgrades. https://www.crucial.com/compatible-upgrade-for/acer/aspire-5730z DDR2 ram is being phased out of stock at most major upgrade suppliers but still available from many smaller memory distributors.

What are the six filenames you got from the crucial scan? Mint can usually handle them if you can tell me what the full filenames are. Though I don't think they'll give you much more details than this link. My workhorse PCs only use Mint Cinnamon like the one I'm using right now to post this message.

username2345

Thanks for the help and advice. What I did was to take SSD # 2(Kingston) out of my main PC and put it into the laptop, and put the old spinning drive from the laptop into the PC as the drive to save my backups to.

Even though the Kingston didn't work well in the PC after a while (It seemed that every Linux update made it slower), it seems to be working fine in the laptop. We'll see how it works out. I'm hoping that a fresh install of the OS fixed it up, If it craps out again I'll be putting a newer (and hopefully) better SSD into the laptop.

JackE

>>>What I did was to take SSD # 2(Kingston) out of my main PC and put it into the laptop, and put the old spinning drive from the laptop into the PC Even though the Kingston didn't work well in the PC after a while (It seemed that every Linux update made it slower), it seems to be working fine in the laptop.>>>

Sorry. You just lost me there. What is your main PC? What is your laptop? And here I thought we were talking about an aspire 5730z all along. How did I get so lost?

username2345

sorry that I lost you. My son-in-law spec'd out a tower build on PCPartsPicker? for me about 2 years ago. That's what I call 'PC', and laptop is the 5370Z.

Thank you for clarifying "Upgrading the CPU will do absolutely nothing for the maximum RAM capacity. The mainboard RAM buss is limited to 4GB." Since the CPU has nothing to do with the RAM capacity I'll leave that alone.

The 5370Z/laptop came with 4GB of DDR. So far the Kingston SSD is working fine and the boot and update speeds are much better. If it does on the 5370Z/laptop what it did on the PC/tower I'll be getting one of the drives you suggested.

Thanks again. 😎

JackE

>>>2022 version of ACER ASPIRE 5730Z CPU UPGRADE?>>>

>>>and laptop is the 5370Z>>>The 5370Z/laptop came with 4GB of DDR.>>>

Aye!! Though the Aspire 5730Z & the Aspire 5370Z might look the same to the naked eye , you can see they are in fact not the same if you zoom in on them or using a magnifying glass. It'd be helpful to confirm if you have the Aspire 5700 series or 5300 series. It might make a difference.

username2345

Confirmed that it is a 5730Z. Sorry for my dyslexia or uncooperative fingers (both of them :-)

JackE

OK. Thanks for confirming. Then you should ---as opposed to will --- be OK with the WD or crucial SSDs up to 2TB --- just because nothing is 100% certain. Good luck. 🙂

username2345

"just because nothing is 100% certain.."

You forgot about 'death and taxes' :-). I think that's a Ben Franklin quote.

username2345

Please be advised that Crucial.com ships via UPS Mail Innovations. In my case it takes several days for UPS to hand it off to the Post Office, A few days for them to acknowledge it and then the post office passes the package to 4 or 5 Post Office locations that surround me before they finally deliver it. What should take a few days sometimes takes two week.s