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Aspire 5100 and the AMD RM-70 CPU

post #1 of 11
5/26/09 at 8:45pm
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Hello, I wanted to upgrade my processor on my Aspire 5100 from the so so tl-50 to the RM-70. I am wondering if anyone else has tried this and if so, did you have any problems installing. from what I have researched, AMD is using the same bios for the the Turion processors and the RM-70 seems to be the one that uses the same wattage range, socket and power consumption. Please help if you can.

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post #2 of 11
5/27/09 at 10:38am
socket compatible, but won't be able to swap them out. You would probably want to stick with a 90nm S1 processor. I have installed TL-60's (dual core, 2Ghz) into the 5100 with no problem. The newer cpu's (puma) will not work in your board.
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post #3 of 11
5/27/09 at 12:55pm
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thanks

For the reply. very helpful.
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post #4 of 11
5/27/09 at 7:04pm
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I was wondering if you were had any over heating problems? because the wattage usage is 35w instead of 31w like the tl-50.
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post #5 of 11
5/27/09 at 7:48pm
If I remember correctly there were even some 5100's that shipped from the factory with TL-56's (dual core, 1.8Ghz, 33W TDP, TMDTL56HAX5CT) . The TL-60 might run a bit warmer but if you keep the heatsink clean, use artic silver, keep the cpu at lower frequencies for normal use you should be fine.

shouldn't be a big jump from 33W to 35W.
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post #6 of 11
5/28/09 at 12:11pm
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Michelle,

Was there a noticeable difference in performance when you swapped to the Tl-60?
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post #7 of 11
5/28/09 at 2:34pm
in the previous case for the customer, swapped from a single core MK-38 to the dual core TL-60. big improvement.

in your case, it would be a 400Mhz jump which is noticeable. More so if you do anything cpu intensive, gaming, high def movies, etc. If all you do is browse the web or listen to music there won't be that big of a difference.
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post #8 of 11
5/28/09 at 3:01pm
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Ok thanks You have been extremely helpful
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post #9 of 11
6/4/09 at 1:24am
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Printer Question

Do you have any experience with windows vista, server 2003 and printing?
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post #10 of 11
6/4/09 at 1:47am
We don't know. What is your query?

cheers ...
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post #11 of 11
6/9/09 at 5:45am
For what it is worth. I built a 5100 just to see what it would do. I installed a TL-66 (2.3 X 2) processor, a Seagate 7,200 RPM (100Gb) PATA hard drive and 4Gb (2 X 2Gb) of Kingston Hyper RAM (4-4-4-12 timing).
It had Windows XP Pro for the operating system.
The system worked without a problem and it was FAST!!!!
The temp under load went up 10C, and I lost about 25% of my battery time (I was using the performance setting 100% of the time).
If you plan on using the 5100 for intense gaming I would stick with XP not Vista. Vista uses a great deal of graphics power just to run its (Windows) programs.
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