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cyberdyne
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 Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 9:23 am Post subject: MK-36 upgrade? |
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Hi,
I have an AMD Turion MK-36 and would like to know what options I have to upgrade it please? I'm new to AMD.
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Neon
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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It depends on what the notebook manufacturer supports in the BIOS, so an accurate answer depends on your specific notebook model.
The MK-36 is a 90nm revision F2 (Richmond) part. I would guess that a Turion 64 X2 revision F2 (Taylor and Trinidad) dual core part would be compatible. The model numbers are TL-50 up to TL-64. Note that you need to know the part number also - it must end in "CT", which indicates revision F2. |
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cyberdyne
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Neon wrote: | It depends on what the notebook manufacturer supports in the BIOS, so an accurate answer depends on your specific notebook model.
The MK-36 is a 90nm revision F2 (Richmond) part. I would guess that a Turion 64 X2 revision F2 (Taylor and Trinidad) dual core part would be compatible. The model numbers are TL-50 up to TL-64. Note that you need to know the part number also - it must end in "CT", which indicates revision F2. |
The laptop is an Acer Aspire 9300 which currently has bios v.1.14. I had attempted to update to bios v.1.20 but it turned out that Acer removed the support for 4gb RAM without informing anyone. Happy to update to v.1.17 if necessary.
According to this page, the part number doesn't end in CT but CM:
TMDMK36HAX4CM
Is this correct and does this help in identifying what I may be able to upgrade to?
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Neon
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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OK, the Acer website mentions TL-50 is supported, so it is likely the other Athlon 64 X2 TL- processors are also.
http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/notebook/0000/Acer/Aspire9300/Aspire9300sp2.shtml
single core revision F2 parts end in CM
dual core revision F2 parts end in CT
They don't indicate what's going on with their BIOS updates, so you would need to contact them to find out if it is necessary to support dual core. |
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cyberdyne
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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Great, thank you for finding that page, I had looked but wasn't sure what terminology to use, lol.
So my options are basically a TL-50 which will definitely work or up to TL-64 which wil more than likely work 
I'll start looking.
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cyberdyne
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cyberdyne
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| Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 8:51 am Post subject: |
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Would someone more knowledgable than myself kindly confirm my choice of CPU upgrade is compatible before I go ahead and make the purchase please?
This CPU for Acer Aspire 9300 with v.1.9 BIOS
(ultimate responsibility is my own of course! )
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gshv
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| Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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TL-60 should work if TL-50 works. It may run a bit hotter than your current processor.
Gennadiy |
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cyberdyne
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:06 am Post subject: |
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| OK, many thanks. |
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