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I need help with CPU

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by silver112, Dec 19, 2009.

  1. silver112

    silver112 Regular member

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    My computer is an

    Acer Aspire 5532
    Operating System:Windows 7 Home Premium
    CPU:AMD Athlon Processor TF-20 (GHz 1.6 or MHz 1600)
    CPU Socket:S1G1
    GPU:ATI Radeon HD3200 Graphics up to 1408 HyperMemory
    RAM:3GB
    HDD:160GB


    I what to install a faster CPU I wanted to know what's the highest processor I can get?
     
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    silver112, Dec 19, 2009
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  2. jony218

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    Since it's a laptop, your best bet if you want faster performance is to get a ssd hard drive.
    That is the bottleneck on laptops. If you did get a faster cpu and somehow where able to install it, it would only decrease your battery life and not really improve your performance since the hard drive would still be the slowest part in your computer.

    Go to youtube and type in x-25 ssd, you get an idea of what kind of speed increase you can get. They are more expensive but they are the only way to increase your boot times and file access on a laptop.
     
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  3. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    moved to correct forum as not a windows issue. why do you want to install a faster cpu? how much ram is assigned to the onboard video?
     
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    I what to install a new cpu so i can play Devil may cry 4 on my laptop.
    The video card has 500 MHz speed.
    How do i find how much ram is assigned to the onboard video?
    I have the aida32 program also
     
    silver112, Dec 20, 2009
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    type in dxdiag at the run command line.
    http://game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=59&game=Devil May Cry 4
    Devil May Cry 4
    System Requirements*
    Intel Processor - Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86GHz
    AMD Processor - Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3600+
    Nvidia Graphics Card - Geforce 6600 GT
    ATI Graphics Card - Radeon X1600
    RAM Memory - 1 GB
    Hard Disk Space - 7 GB
    Direct X - 9

    http://www.pcgamerequirements.com/game-index/devil-may-cry-4-game-requirements/
    Minimum Requirements

    Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3GHz
    Video Card: GeForce 6600 with 256MB of VRAM (SM3 Required)
    Memory 512MB (Windows XP), 1GB (Windows Vista)
    Hard Drive: 8GB Free
    OS: Windows XP/Vista

    Recommended Requirements

    Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo
    Video Card: GeForce 8600 with 512MB of VRAM
    Memory: 1GB (Windows XP), (2GB pre Windows Vista)
    Hard Drive: 8GB Free
    OS: Windows Vista

    http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=938687&topic=41171889

    i think the problem is not the cpu speed but the onboard videocard.
     
    ddp, Dec 20, 2009
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