Acer TimelineX 3830/4830/5830 T/G

[madkiwi]

On my 3820TG after 1,5 year of use and a lot of using on a battery i have 17% wear level, but even when it was new it was like 3-4%.
As I am reading this topic from time to time I see that I've made a good decision to buy 3820 instead of 3830. Sometimes I don't understand Acer's decisions...

The Asus UL80VT I retired (gave to my wife) is currently showing 13% wear after 2 years and 4 months.

The "new and improved" Acer 4830TG shows 7% wear after 2 months. That is with the Sanyo battery.

That and stuttering performance doing simple things like watching YouTube while plugged in make me question my purchase decision.

[TheSwede86]

Hi Guys!

Have a 3830TG (i5 2410M) and am thinking about upgrading the wifi to Intel 6200 for dual-band capability, are there any better half mini-pcie out there?

The Intel 6200 is really cheap, $12 incl. shipping (live in Sweden so the seller ships free worldwide from Ebay) and since I don't feel its worth to disassemble my notebooks screen to add an extra antenna for 450Mbps with the Intel 6300 for example, it (the 6200) seems like a good choice?

Any other suggestions?
Has anybody tried installing another antenna on this computer, if so is it hard?

One last question:
Is the Bluetooth integrated on the current wifi-card?
If so I need to buy a new wifi-card with integrated bluetooth.

[codyrocco]

Hi Guys!

Have a 3830TG (i5 2410M) and am thinking about upgrading the wifi to Intel 6200 for dual-band capability, are there any better half mini-pcie out there?

The Intel 6200 is really cheap, $12 incl. shipping (live in Sweden so the seller ships free worldwide from Ebay) and since I don't feel its worth to disassemble my notebooks screen to add an extra antenna for 450Mbps with the Intel 6300 for example, it (the 6200) seems like a good choice?

Any other suggestions?
Has anybody tried installing another antenna on this computer, if so is it hard?

One last question:
Is the Bluetooth integrated on the current wifi-card?
If so I need to buy a new wifi-card with integrated bluetooth.

for wireless: stick with 6300, the price is not so much bigger and you'll be able to put it in your future laptop (or maybe add a third antenna in the existent one - it's a bit tricky, but i did it)
as for the second question, the answer is no - in my 5830tg the bt3.0 is a separate module, and the wireless is Atheros T77H167.07 (AR5B97) - which i replaced with intel 6300

[TheSwede86]

for wireless: stick with 6300, the price is not so much bigger and you'll be able to put it in your future laptop (or maybe add a third antenna in the existent one - it's a bit tricky, but i did it)
as for the second question, the answer is no - in my 5830tg the bt3.0 is a separate module, and the wireless is Atheros T77H167.07 (AR5B97) - which i replaced with intel 6300

Thank you for your reply.

Did you use any teardown instructions etc. and if so where did you find them?

[brtdud7]

Hey guys, I'm really focusing in on finding a good deal on the 4830TG-6808 and I just wanted to ask a couple of questions.

Has anyone tried removing the optial drive and adding a SSD as the primary drive and placing the stock in the optical drive slot? I think it would be cool if I could buy a SMALL SSD, like ~20 GB only for booting Windows 7 on (and all other programs and data off of the stock 500 GB drive unless they are necessary for booting).

I don't know much about replacing laptop internals but I am definitely planning on buying an 8 GB RAM upgrade from Crucial for ~ $50, and I would probably have to send the laptop to a guy to do the optical drive removal because I don't feel comfortable with it unless I can find a guide.

Also, does the 4830TG-6808 with the i5-2450M processor suffer from throttling?

Thanks guys

[pasoleatis]

Thank you for your reply.

Did you use any teardown instructions etc. and if so where did you find them?

Check the first page of this thread, there were some pages in russian with the manual how to dissemble it.

[TheSwede86]

Check the first page of this thread, there were some pages in russian with the manual how to dissemble it.

Thank you!

I guess you mean this:
http://mycomp.su/arh/sg/nb/acer/aspi...mycomp.su_.pdf
?

It seems to be for the 4830T / TG but it should be mostly the same I guess?
Seems like a LOT of hassle though, I think it might be a project for when I get a 450MBps router but thanks!

[cladmonitor]

Hey guys,

We have a 4830T that we need to get the VT-x extensions enabled on, we scoured the bios with no luck. Im reluctant to simply update the BIOS from Acer's site without knowing if they enabled this and would really like to avoid any modded BIOS.

Does any one have any insight, I tired to use the forum search but no matter what I type I get "Invalid Query".

[madkiwi]

Has anyone tried removing the optial drive and adding a SSD as the primary drive and placing the stock in the optical drive slot? I think it would be cool if I could buy a SMALL SSD, like ~20 GB only for booting Windows 7 on (and all other programs and data off of the stock 500 GB drive unless they are necessary for booting).

I don't know much about replacing laptop internals but I am definitely planning on buying an 8 GB RAM upgrade from Crucial for ~ $50, and I would probably have to send the laptop to a guy to do the optical drive removal because I don't feel comfortable with it unless I can find a guide.

Also, does the 4830TG-6808 with the i5-2450M processor suffer from throttling?

Thanks guys

Can't answer definitively about the throttling issue, but I replaced the factory HD with a Sandisk Extreme 120 GB- on sale for $109, and got a 4 GB Corsair memory module for $22.99.

Took about 10 minutes to swap out the drives and install the memory, and about an hour or so to reinstall everything on the new SSD.

Yesterday the Sandisk Extreme 240 GB was on sale for $177 at Buy.com (expired now, but I'm sure the same deal will come again). The Extreme is hella fast- my 4830TG boots in under 17 seconds.

I know the DVD/CD player is easily removed, and a hard drive caddy is easy enough to find. You should not have much trouble with that. Maybe somewhere in this 388 page thread is some specific instructions.

Good luck.

[brtdud7]

Can't answer definitively about the throttling issue, but I replaced the factory HD with a Sandisk Extreme 120 GB- on sale for $109, and got a 4 GB Corsair memory module for $22.99.

Took about 10 minutes to swap out the drives and install the memory, and about an hour or so to reinstall everything on the new SSD.

Yesterday the Sandisk Extreme 240 GB was on sale for $177 at Buy.com (expired now, but I'm sure the same deal will come again). The Extreme is hella fast- my 4830TG boots in under 17 seconds.

I know the DVD/CD player is easily removed, and a hard drive caddy is easy enough to find. You should not have much trouble with that. Maybe somewhere in this 388 page thread is some specific instructions.

Good luck.

Thanks for answering. Do you have the link for the RAM you bought? I was told to only have the same 2 sticks so you should buy them together, but if you have done it without a problem and I can get it for only $25 (college student, no budget) that would be GREAT.

Also, thanks for the info about the SSD but honestly I don't really want one that big. I plan for most of my HD space to be data, games, programs, etc so I don't really want to be spending a lot on a big SSD, I really only just need one for booting.

Thanks