Acer Aspire 8942g CPU Upgrade General Guide

[searcher?]

Hello ^ nox,

your CPU temperatures are all perfectly normal and ok!
Your CPU is cool.

greetings from germany

[^nox]

Hahaha thanks guys ! Yes crysis 2 utilizes all 4 cores, performance definetelly improved but more than that I can finally use fraps to record with minimal fps loss ! Tomorrow I will run more tests but so far everything is ok ! Also witcher 2 got a nice fps boost and on Friday I will get Skyrim

I will do some rendering soon once I get rid of the micro stutters and report back on if there was an improvement as well.

So far max temp reached when CPU and GPU was under load was CPU : 75 GPU : 76. GPU was over locked to 725/1000. With the old i3 the GPU would reach around 70 - 71 so it's not too crazy of an increase

[searcher?]

Hello ^ nox,

with an SSD drive many games will run much smoother.
The magnetic hard disk is always the weakest hardware!
I will never again without a SSD hard drive.

An SSD fits perfectly with the strong i7.

Where did you get your new i7 CPU from?
Do you have a link for us?

greetings from germany

[^nox]

Hi Searcher

I got my CPU from eBay you should check there !

I am looking into new HD maye SSD but might have to wait a bit what do you think about the Seagate Hibrid drive 7200rpm plus 4gb Ssd ? They would fit my budget

[searcher?]

Hello ^ nox,

better buy yourself a pure SSD - hard drive - much more speed!
Windows and the programs or games should always be installed on the SSD hard drive.
You can use your large magnetic disk as a second hard drive for photos, videos and images.

This SSD is highly recommended:

Crucial 128 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT128M4SSD2

Do not forget the hard drive frame to buy!

HDD Bracket Aspire 8940G Serie

and the screws!

2x M3 and 2x M2 machine screws short.

How much did you pay for your new CPU?

greetings from germany

[^nox]

Thanks for the info !!!! I payed 135 dollars for the CPU pretty good price I think, system is soo much more responsive ! the thermal compound seems to be very good but I have nothing to comparing to at the moment

I'm totally buying that bracket been searching for it for months

Thanks again now onto modding my fan for better temps, could you give me a step by step how to ru nthat software ? I downloaded the utility and your ini ? Installed the software now what do i do next with your ini ? Thanks Searcher

Actually would you be able to make an ini that would decrease temperatures even more ? In idle ?

[^nox]

Nevermind i figured out how to put your config in Man it knocked off about 5 degrees after running prime95 for 2 hours in small FFT's. See screenshot. THis is awesome.



But still i dont care about noise, Searcher would you be able to create a ini that can cool idle temps even more ? Thanks a bunch !

[^nox]

To Kizwan

I am curious is there any benefit of trying to install the modded BIOS ? I mean in terms of performance increase or lower temperatures ? I dont plan on overclocking the cpu , i am jsut curious if it is worth it or not .

All the best !

[kizwan]

Hi ^nox,

searcher? has take pictures of the unlocked hidden menus. You can take a look & decide whether you want it or not. Remember, you don't have to use the modified BIOS unless you want it. Here is the pictures:-
ASPIRE_8942G_BIOS_MODS.rar

What doesn't work are:-
- Bus Speed Override
- CPU VID Support
- FAN trip point (except passive & critical trip point)

With this BIOS, you can change ("Extreme Edition" menu) TDP/TDC limits & also core ratio limits. However, you need to have extreme edition processor, e.g. i7-920XM to utilized it.

[^nox]

Hi ^nox,

searcher? has take pictures of the unlocked hidden menus. You can take a look & decide whether you want it or not. Remember, you don't have to use the modified BIOS unless you want it. Here is the pictures:-
ASPIRE_8942G_BIOS_MODS.rar

What doesn't work are:-
- Bus Speed Override
- CPU VID Support
- FAN trip point (except passive & critical trip point)

With this BIOS, you can change ("Extreme Edition" menu) TDP/TDC limits & also core ratio limits. However, you need to have extreme edition processor, e.g. i7-920XM to utilized it.

Great ! Thanks for the Info Kizwan !