Acer Processor heatsink

Advantages: Superb cooling, firm fixing, 80 or 92mm fans
Disadvantages: May not fit all boards. A bit fiddley.

..., but there is a comprehensive list of boards and conflicts on the thermalright website. http://www.thermalright.com/ So how does it cool???? My processor is an AMD Athlon 2500XP-m, a mobile processor fitted in a PC. These overclock fantastically well! Mine currently is at 2500 mhz (2.5Ghz) which is equivalent to a normal athlon XP at something like 3700XP. On benchmark tests it performs as well as lower end athlon 64s and equals the performance of a P4 3.2ghz, no mean feat! Of course overclocking to this state means you need to increase the voltage to the processor, and this means more heat! The air temperature here is currently around 30'c, very warm and a little too warm for my liking! This does mean however that the temps I get will be way above normal as the air passing over the heatsink will be warm too, At a voltage of 1.675v I am getting... Read review

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Advantages: dream machine-perfect specs
Disadvantages: slightly mad touchpad, some may not like looks

...INTRO I purchased the Acer Aspire 5520G laptop from Tesco Direct for the cost of £499, about 3 months ago. I purchased the laptop as my third laptop after two very unsuccessful Gateway Laptops earlier in 2007. These two laptops were both around £100 cheaper and as it was nearly a year ago neither of them was as high a spec as this one, which is currently around the highest spec laptop I have seen under £700, even though it cost much less than that! The first thing that I should mention is that my laptop is a slightly different version and although it is an Acer Aspire 5520, it is the Acer Aspire 5520G version which has some slightly different features such as a slightly faster processor and a bigger hard drive than the standard 5520. OPERATING SYSTEM The Acer Aspire 5520G runs Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium as an operating... Read review

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Advantages: cheap, good quality laptop with decent features, upgradable.
Disadvantages: no bluetooth. memory will need upgrading if moving on to Windows Vista

...the playback of dvd movies beautifully using the built in optical drive ( DVD Super Multi Double Layer Drive) Supporting DVD+R/RW DVDR/RW CDR/RW DVD+R Double Layer. there are two switches on the front of the laptop one to enable /disable wireless lan the other to enable/disable bluetooth both accompanied with an led ,although this model does not have bluetooth (was told by acer that it is a generic case for a variety of models. the laptop performs well with the 2ghz processor and 512mb memory handling all the applications i needed. the bundled acer empowering technology is quite useful as it also includes a program to free up unused ram. the touchpad is easy to get used to even i managed to get used to it very quickly and i have never had a laptop before. the built in web cam is pretty good for a 0.3 mega pixel camera. the built in card... Read review

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