laptop advice needed

pschief

New Member
So i bought a new laptop Acer A315-23-R1UM. I upgraded the RAM to 16GB.

I am running a zoom meeting. 2 external monitors. a zoho show that has embedded videos and constantly referring to online manuals.
it seems slow. students complain about shitty audio and i am waiting sometimes with the "thinking circle"

Is this not enough computing power? Do i need to go all the way to an i7? Would an i5 be enough or should i go all the way. I would also like a 17" monitor.
any recommendations are welcome.

Thanks
 

johnb35

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Staff member
You won't be able to upgrade the cpu in the newer laptops. You will need to get a different laptop if you want a better cpu. A higher end I5 (quad core) should work.
When it was running slow I opened the task manager and it seemed like the CPU was running near max.
What process or processes was using up the cpu?
 

Pupp

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It's almost never worth upgrading a CPU if your doing it more than 2 years after you bought it. The speed boost is usually around 10% to 20%, with an average about 15%.

Generally you can only upgrade a cpu to the same chipset. Depending on the CPU, you might be able to upgrade it once, or the cpu is already the best the chipset supports. It's almost universally a waste of money to upgrade a cpu for something around a 15% speed boost.

Don't go by the CPU socket, sockets change much less frequently than CPU chipsets.

If fact, my 2015 build.. I plan on waiting till around 2026 or 2027 to get a new computer, because of other improvements, like faster PCIe slots, and USB/Thunderblot 4.0 being standard, and of course, DDR5 ram being standard. Most of the stuff will be rolled out by 2024, and I'll give it two or three years for it start showing up in lower end computers.
 

beers

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Staff member
Most of the stuff will be rolled out by 2024, and I'll give it two or three years for it start showing up in lower end computers.
I think next year for DDR5, a bunch of articles are also pinning on PCIE5 for the new platform. If we can see data center skus this year then I imagine you'd see that next year on the consumer oriented versions.
 
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