Acer Aspire 7738G upgradeability

[triturbo]

A quick rundown:

 

QX9300 is compatible - stock CPU was T6400

X9100 is compatible - same as above

DELL K2100m is compatible - stock GPU was GT 240m

8GB RAM is compatible, I guess no surprises there, have to put 2x 8GB to really push the system

 

The downside - NO overclocking for the extreme CPUs. The stock cooling can't handle it. ThrottleStop WORKS, but temperatures rise quickly. Maybe if one swaps the fan with the one from MSI GT627 (Dremeling is a must), situation might improve.

[SuperMG]

On 7/31/2025 at 8:40 PM, triturbo said:

A quick rundown:

 

QX9300 is compatible - stock CPU was T6400

X9100 is compatible - same as above

DELL K2100m is compatible - stock GPU was GT 240m

8GB RAM is compatible, I guess no surprises there, have to put 2x 8GB to really push the system

 

The downside - NO overclocking for the extreme CPUs. The stock cooling can't handle it. ThrottleStop WORKS, but temperatures rise quickly. Maybe if one swaps the fan with the one from MSI GT627 (Dremeling is a must), situation might improve.

Hello. Did you try M2000? M2200? 965M cards on it? They can work because the K2100M is Kepler 2 which is a newer structure and it isn't compatible with my Clevo X7200 in the master slot but the K2000M is...

[triturbo]

I tried M2000 - backlight on, black screen, M2200 - nothing at all. 

[SuperMG]

10 minutes ago, triturbo said:

I tried M2000 - backlight on, black screen, M2200 - nothing at all. 

Did you try without GOP/UEFI partition of the GPU?

[triturbo]

This laptop doesn’t support UEFI, maybe that was the problem.