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    Upgrading Acer Aspire 8735G

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Racer1, Jul 31, 2012.

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    Racer1 Notebook Consultant

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    I have a 8735G and want to upgrade it a bit. I upgraded the CPU to a Extreme X9100. Maybe a Quad soon? I don't know whether someone tested a Quad in this notebook. I tried to upgrade the graphics card to a 5870, but it was a fail, because of the 50 W TDP. I found a good upgrade. The HD 5650. Will it work? : 1GB Radeon kompatibel zu Acer Aspire 7738 G, 8735 G, 8940 Notebook Grafikkarte | eBay

    The RAM should be 8 GB. I heard about that Corsair not worked and a Hynix upgrade was succesful. What do you think is the best and cheapest RAM?
     
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    Racer1 Notebook Consultant

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    No one upgraded the 8735G?
     
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    Racer1 Notebook Consultant

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    I ordered the RAM from the last post and it works great. What's with CPU and GPU?
     
    Racer1, Aug 8, 2012
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    At what resolution you play BF3.

    I have 800x600 30> 60 fps sometimes 25fps, multi.
    I doubt that the new RAM has changed something.
    A better CPU will give you more FPS but I doubt a better resolution.
    I've seen X9100 + 2x GT280m, this is the solution.
    user.cfg
    Render.DrawScreenInfo 1 - Show us the FPS
    render.perfoverlayenable 1
    render.perfoverlayvisible 1
    The screen should display the graph. (CPU & GPU)

    We see yellow and green lines, if the yellow is much higher it means that the card is limited by the processor, while the green is above the graphics card does not give advice. If both are roughly the same level it is all right.
     
    paymey, Aug 9, 2012
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    I play at 1366x768. I always have a OSD in game,so I can see my CPU usage of each core, the temp of them, the clock of the cpu, my ram usage (about 4 GB in BF3), FPS and clocks of the GPU. Settings in BF3: everything on low except texture quality on medium, anisotropic f. at 2 and AA off. Average FPS about 30. Sometimes 27-28. Often more than 35. Is your GT 240M OCed? I recognized a boost of 10 FPS in my RE5 benchmark tests.

    Edit: And yes with the new RAM the gameplay is a little bit better.
     
    Racer1, Aug 10, 2012
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    My problem is that nobody has ever tried a quad core, I think.
     
    Racer1, Aug 11, 2012
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