Upgrade CPU on Acer Aspire 5516 and 5517

[Akolekar]

I am looking forward to update the processor of both Acer Aspire 5516 and 5517. I am using the both the laptops. As far as i know that both laptops are compatible with AMD Athlon X2 dual core and single core processors. But other than this both contain different motherboards. if i want to upgrade, which CPU suites the best needs and for which laptop?

[Bhadran]

I think that it is very difficult. I would say virtually impossible as these in most (if not always) are soldered to the board.

[TamaraAce]

If changing a processor in an old tower pc is something complicated, it still is on a laptop, because the components are not so easily and finding them will cost you expensive and do not think you worth the price they are today modern laptops have very competitive prices. So I advise you do not venture to change the motherboard or the processor because it is not going to be expensive and will never be the same as a modern laptop.

[Laramie]

Upgrade acer is a suicide, for almost anything against the bios is crippled so no possibility of changing the processor (see if models of the same series as yours we already had more powerful processors) and memory mark if it accepts max 4 GB is that it does on mine, which must have the same age is 4 GB max and that's it. So from a hard drive that you already changed to there is not much to do.