Acer 6920g Laptop upgrade to 6935G motherboard

I am curious, after seeing the 6935g seems to use the same casing as that of 6920g.. could one replace the motherboard in a 6920g with a 6935g to get the upgradeable 1066fsb and ddr3 ram? From images from the 6935g laptop all holes appears to line up in regards to usb, optical, sound hdmi etc etc.. now the only other thing is which MXM series card does the 6935g use?

 

1066MHz FSB and DDR3 RAM provide less real-world performance gain over 800MHz FSB and DDR2 RAM.

You'll probably need to buy Service Guides for both notebooks and check the board layout to confirm if both notebooks have the same connectors, holes etc. AFAIK, only the Aspire 89xx series support MXM-III, rest support upto MXM-II. TBH, it'll be better to just sell your 6920 and get a better, faster notebook. Swapping motherboards is a real PITA.

 

Not to mention that the cases may not line up EXACTLY, which is what you'd need.
The 6920G does indeed support MXM-II. If I were you, I'd sell the 6920G for someone more modern - Acer should have their new entertainment models coming out this summer.

 

Exactly as above, if you are upgrading just for the faster FSB and DDR3 then you are just wasting your money as the benefits of upgrading are negligible.

 

OK sound good...curious would you say then best way is just upgrade cpu then.. I already have 3 gigs of ram which I don't see a huge benefit going to 4.. unless I get a decent price on ram... what would be best cpu to toss in, the way I look at it as, sure i could sell this then buy another but if it only cost me 200-300$ to update this one abit further that's better another 900$... what would be the resale value of of a 6920-6653?

 

We said that?
If you're looking to upgrade something, start with the slowest part of your system - the hard drive. Get a big 7200rpm drive, or even an SSD if you've got the cash.

I wouldn't know the resale value, sorry.

 

I said " would you say" not implying you did say... I use this laptop for doing blu-ray to avchd and as is now.. it's about 16 hour process to convert over, my desktop that had an oc'd E5200 would do it in about 10 hours.. so I want to do what I can do try and bump the process time on this laptop as we won't really use a desktop anymore.

Do you think a 7200rpm drive would boost peformance that much to really see a difference? Also for video what would max oc be on the video card to keep it safe? Pc side I always oc'd everything I know laptops it's not recommended since alot less air space for cooling and what not, but the way I always look at things is say if a 9600m can fit in the same spot with same amount of air, why can't a 9500m be bumped up abit to try and get a little more power out of it..Wouldn't a 9600m generate about the same heat at stock as a 9500m would be if oc'd to same specs if possible?

 

What CPU do you have? Do you notice you use 100% load a lot? If you do then upgrade the CPU. If you find your system runs out of memory, get memory. If none of these are true, more than likely, a HD upgrade will give you the most noticeable difference.

 

I have the T5750 which does max 100% when doing blu-ray to avchd conversions... Ram doesn't appear to get eating up... usually has close to gig in reserve still, for example right now I still have 1.5 gig showing at any given time.

 

Sorry DKormend, misread your post.
If that's what you're doing, then a CPU upgrade sounds like a plan.
OR you can give Badaboom a try - it uses your GPU instead of your CPU. I love it to bits - I was able to transcode a BD to a more manageable bitrate 1080p H.264 in about 6 hours.

 

Badaboom eh, does it only use the gpu or does it use both? I will give that a try as well...

Thanks

 

Another question for ya since ya seen to be leading me in the right direction , I assume then if you oc your video card then of course this gives you more power for processing, I don't seem to have any luck in oc'ing when I try riva or ati tool doesn't give me anything to work with, I've used both in the past with desktop setups, am I missing something?

 

It uses both - the CPU's used to transcode the audio only (which is FAR less intensive) and decode any video that can't be done on GPU. The GPU handles all video encoding.
Well, it depends on the driver you're using. The ones from Acer won't let you overclock, but the releases from Nvidia themselves do. Go download 186.03 and give that a try (possibly with Nvidia System Tools, their own overclocking suite).

 

Thanks, I downloaded them from Nvidia this time so will give it a try.