Saber_Mike
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- Joined
- Mar 16, 2016
- Location
- Virginia
So I have an addiction to getting every last drop of usefulness out of equipment. So much so that I only buy refurbished equipment and unless catastrophic death has happened we don't replace a system for at least 5 years. I know some people would say 5 years isn't to bad, well remember these are refurnished so they are normally 2 to 3 years old to start with before I get them. "OMG how do your people work" well that is where my addiction and hobby come in, yes I have 5 to to 9 year old systems deployed however they are the top of the line from the time and after I am done with maxing memory and SSD installs we actually do very well. We are also primarily a school so Windows 7 and no really heavy applications on the user side. This comes from 15 years of being a Network Administrator of a nonprofit with a very very limited budgets. Ok well my actual question and I hope someone out there has experience with Acer laptops. The laptop I personally use is an old Acer Aspire 5349 that was donated. I installed a 240GB Samsung SSD, 8GB Ram, and replaced the stock Celeron with an old i7 2620M cpu. It is actually a wonderful laptop now, performance is great and on off time I can even play quite a few games on it. However my need to always tweak demands that I put in 16GB Ram however the manual reports it has a maximum of 8GB. I have it at that now and the CPU supports up to 16GB but I am guessing that if there is a real limitation it is in the BIOS which is the highest now at ver. 1.08 So before I blow my money on two 8GB sticks of DDR3 for just an experiment has anyone actually done this with an Aspire 5349? Any other suggestions, I think I will look for a better monitor as well it has always looked a bit washed out to me. Oh btw yes I am sure I could get a better laptop, I actually have several Dell E class ones that do have 16GB of ram with the same CPU, its just the darn addiction to tweaking and I can't turn away from. Humm to they have an Overclockers Anonimus?