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    ACER ASPIRE 5935G upgrades.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Mike655, Nov 15, 2014.

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    Stop!

    Christ almighty, Do not buy that card! If you examine it closely, it has no ROM chip. See the little "SD' card shaped icon on the bottom right? There's supposed to be a ROM chip there but there isn't. The 5935g will not take ROMless cards. I have that exact card and it was a royal pain to try and get it going. Sadly I was unable to do as such. The 5935g does not support vBIOS sBIOS integrations due to the hybrid graphics. Put it straight, it will only take cards with a ROM chip.

    Go on Aliexpress or Ebay and find a Firepro m4000 (Equivalent to a 7770m most powerful MXM-A card you can get). Part number is PR80C Make sure you get this exact one! Only the Dell one (PR80C/0PR80C) will work as it has a ROM chip. The HP one does not have a ROM chip.

    The CPU is perfect. A P9700 will do the job nicely. 28w TDP is really good.

    Buying both of these parts are a worthwhile investment. It would make the 5935g on par with a mid end laptop that you'd be able to get nowadays. I have a 5935g with an m4000 and an T9900 and I'm able to play Titanfall on medium settings no AA getting 32+ FPS.
     
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    Excellent help mate, thank you very much, the GPU is of course more expensive, but i feel it is well worth it, once again thanks.
     
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    That's the one! Wow! That's a shockingly good price! I had to pay $232 for mine!

    Take it and run. There appears to be a ROM chip on the top left. Capture.jpg I've circled it for you so you'd know what a ROM chip looks like from now on. I'm just hoping this isn't a stock photo of some sort.
     
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    Excellent information sir, thanks again! :D
     
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    Is your laptop upgradable? What model laptop do you have? Most laptops cpu's and gpu's are not upgradable because they are soldered to the motherboard. If you are lucky, this may not be true. Then it is just a matter of getting the right gpu or cpu for your particular machine. But, most of the time this is not possible.
     
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    Oh, sorry, I should have read the title of your post. Acer aspire 5935g.
     
    Wierdninja, Nov 16, 2014
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