I have an acer aspire 4743, can the processor be upgraded?

Roy_haling
Roy_haling Member Posts: 2 New User
edited November 2023 in 2020 Archives
I have an acer aspire 4743, can the processor be upgraded?
what can I do ?

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  • StevenGen
    StevenGen ACE Posts: 12,785 Trailblazer
    edited October 2020 Answer ✓
    Roy_haling said:
    I have an acer aspire 4743, can the processor be upgraded?
    what can I do ?

    Your Aspire 4743 CPU can be upgraded as it’s a Socket G1 type Arrandale CPU. It depends on what OEM CPU you have as some came with an OEM of the likes of the Intel Core i5 480M that can be upgraded.

    The CPU upgrade won’t give you much of a performance increase e.g like from the i5-480M to the max spec i7-640M Socket G1 type Arrandale CPU as its about 10% + or - relative performance increase but, if you upgrade your RAM to 8GB (2x 4GB DDR3-1600MHz) and get the RAM to run in “Dual” mode and get a 2.5 inch SATA 6GB/s SSD. The combination of all these updates will give you the total increase in performance of 100%+ more than what you have from your OEM Aspire 4743, its your choice? Also and if you are running Win-10 (which you can do easily with the new specs) use the “TRIM” boost command (look it up on the web of how to do that) for your SSD as that will improve your SSD’s read/write performance even further. 


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  • StevenGen
    StevenGen ACE Posts: 12,785 Trailblazer
    edited October 2020 Answer ✓
    Roy_haling said:
    I have an acer aspire 4743, can the processor be upgraded?
    what can I do ?

    Your Aspire 4743 CPU can be upgraded as it’s a Socket G1 type Arrandale CPU. It depends on what OEM CPU you have as some came with an OEM of the likes of the Intel Core i5 480M that can be upgraded.

    The CPU upgrade won’t give you much of a performance increase e.g like from the i5-480M to the max spec i7-640M Socket G1 type Arrandale CPU as its about 10% + or - relative performance increase but, if you upgrade your RAM to 8GB (2x 4GB DDR3-1600MHz) and get the RAM to run in “Dual” mode and get a 2.5 inch SATA 6GB/s SSD. The combination of all these updates will give you the total increase in performance of 100%+ more than what you have from your OEM Aspire 4743, its your choice? Also and if you are running Win-10 (which you can do easily with the new specs) use the “TRIM” boost command (look it up on the web of how to do that) for your SSD as that will improve your SSD’s read/write performance even further. 


  • Roy_haling
    Roy_haling Member Posts: 2 New User
    edited October 2020

    Terima kasih telah menjawab pertanyaan saya,

    I plan to replace the i7-640m processor, 4GBX2 DRR3 RAM & 128GB SATAIII SSD. hope it will be fine
  • StevenGen
    StevenGen ACE Posts: 12,785 Trailblazer
    edited October 2020
    Roy_haling said:

    Terima kasih telah menjawab pertanyaan saya,

    I plan to replace the i7-640m processor, 4GBX2 DRR3 RAM & 128GB SATAIII SSD. hope it will be fine

    As you have the even lower spec i3-380M CPU it will be even better for you to upgrade to the i7-640M as you will get 30% more relative performance just with a CPU upgrade and adding 4GBX2 DRR3 RAM & 128GB SATAIII SSD will make your Aspire 4743 a very good laptop and quicker. I’m running a second laptop of an Aspire V3-571G and I’ve upgraded the CPU, RAM and SSD and its running faultlessly on the latest Win-10 Pro version 2004 OS build 19041.572 which is the latest Win-10.

    As I told you and when and after you install the new SSD do the TRIM SSD command as that will improve the speed of your SSD by allot. To make sure that "TRIM" is enabled on Win-10, you only need to use the Command Prompt with Administrator privileges then do this:.

    Copy/paste the following command: fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify then press Enter, simple

    Then you get this result when TRIM is ON:


    To check TRIM is enabled in your Win-10 use this cmd: fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify

     


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