Nice job. I own the e520 but I changed the T1600 cpu into T3400. I also tried the t9500, but it did not work. How were you able to update the bios? Where did you get the 1.1 version? I have the 1.04.
Thank you, the laptop came with the v.1.1 BIOS version. From here you can download the v.1.06 BIOS www.emachines.com/ec/en/GB/content/drivers.html Good luck.
@@redigitt hi. Does cpu compability differ from bios version? My E520 have v1.06 in stock. Thinking about celeron 575 cpu upgrade... not sure is it worth it.
Aloha, if you would like a better experience in: web browsing, watching clips on youtube and you would like to open the programs faster then the upgrade defiantly worth it, but if you would like to use the laptop for gaming, do not bother with the upgrade, because the laptop is too old for gaming. At 00:06:20 you can watch the windows experience index rating after the upgrade. For me personally it was worth it the upgrade. Good luck with the upgrade if you decided to upgrade and please share and subscribe, thank you for watching. PS. I gained 39% in procesing power.
@@redigitt not even close to gaming, just dreaming of proper work of youtube at the moment 720p videos struggling to play without freezing. 4gb does not help. Also tried latest ubuntu, but performance is about the same. I just think if ram does not help, it could be that cpu gives only marginal boost and the end possible boutleneck is gpu - gma4500mhd. What do you think?
Aloha, on the emachine E520 support page have been deleted the BIOS updates files, I find the 1.05 and the 1.06 BIOS update files on an external website, DO THE BIOS UPDATE AT ON OWN RISK, I will not be held responsible for any damages. www.hwdrivers.com/ftp/fd_-slash-laptop-slash-acer-slash-emachines-slash-e520-slash-bios-slash-.html Good luck with the BIOS update and CPU upgrade. Thank you for watching.
Здравствуйте.У меня и так стоит bios v1.06.Так что я думаю мне не нужно будет обновлять bios.И процессор celeron m 575 выпущен позже чем t7700 поэтому я думаю, что моя версия bios будет его поддерживать.А вам спасибо за ответ.
I wanted to ask you, I would like to buy the cpu soon, do you think the extreme x7900 can work? Or is the TT700 just fine? How did you find yourself? Did the PC work fine? If I put on an Extreme will I have overheating problems or just a little more than normal?
I never had or used a laptop with x7900 CPU TDP 45W, but usualy a higher TDP CPU is hooter. This is my theory, maybe I'm wrong or maybe not. If your original CPU was a 27W TDP Celeron and you upgrade to a 45W TDP x7900, then in theory the CPU will use with 66,6% more power = more heat. 27W............100% 45W............x =============== (45x100):27= 166,6 But if you upgrade to a 45W TDP CPU, then you should use a very good quality thermal paste and thermalpad. Good luck and please leave a comment how went the upgrade, how hot was the CPU, I am very curious.
@@redigitt Ummm you made me doubt now ahahaha if there is this problem then I would opt for a smaller CPU, like the TT700 or the T7700. How did you feel with the TT700 differences in temperature and performance? Thanks a lot and of course I'll let you know
I used a good quality thermal paste, I didn't had any problem with the temperature, it was sligtly lower then with Celeron CPU. With the T7700 in the multi thred benchmark I gained 154%.....I think thats a very good result, I felt like I bought a new laptop. If you have the money, you may consider to buy the T7800 is bigger with 200MHz.
@@redigitt I bought this today on ebay Intel Core 2 Duo T7800 CPU Dual-Core 2.60GHz 4MB 800 MHz Socket P CPU Processor, I hope it will go well, I read on the Russian site about an emachines e520 for sale that mounted this CPU, so I turned around a bit and decided to buy it
Hi, I wanted to ask you one more thing, your touch pad is The touch pad buttons work for you? Does your PC find your drivers? Because mine doesn't work and I don't know how to do it, I disassembled, but everything seems fine. But instead nothing to do does not work. I find nothing on the drivers, no touch pad name, nothing at all. Do you have any advice for me? Unfortunately this PC has many small problems that I am trying to solve.
This laptop has about 12 years, probably they won't make any new drivers. And I had some bad experiences with Windows 10, when came a new release, some drivers wasn't compatible anymore. You could try toinstall Windows 7 and then upgrade from Windows 7, maybe than will preserve the drivers, I'm guessing here. I almost never use the touchpad on any laptop, I have big hands, for me is a nightmare the touchpad.
@@redigitt I have already Windows 7, I tryed to do many things to active the touch pad and the bottom attacked on touch pad, but nothing, I find the driver cause is hide, but also if I disable and reactive the driver o unistall, nothing change. Yesterday I opened the laptop and in those zone is everything OK, at least it seems. I try also to tpcuh the correct sequence of botton fn + F7 and nothing. 😢 I use touch pad, I find one on ebay together the top plastic, maybe I need to buy it, but my fear is that that doesn't work either. Try ank you very much brother
This laptop has driver support only for Windows XP and Vista www.emachines.com/ec/en/US/content/drivers.html You could search for drivers with the hardware ID You can try these drivers to drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hMHAFYP-gF243A_5J9x7zDpeB0jDpB1N?usp=sharing
@@redigitt On device manager and hidden, but there is, I see, Synaptics PS / 2 Port compatible touch pad, device status, the specified device is not present or not working properly or not all drivers are installed. Practically even if I install windows 10 does it find me the drivers? But I did not understand yours works or not?
@@redigittI asked a guy on eBay who sells this PC running windows 10 if the touch pad works, and he said yes. This is very strange maybe he told me a lie.
Hi I have 3 questions, I have the same PC and I would like to upgrade it. So about the cpu is it only compatible Intelcore duo T7700 or can I put something better and more powerful? Is the ram a standard or must it be compatible with this PC? And about windows 10, I haven't been able to install it, I don't know why even if I converted to MBR it doesn't work, maybe it's because the CPU and the ram aren't enough? Sorry for my ignorance, but I've never done these things in the PC.
Aloha, personally I tried only up to T7700, but it should work these CPU's to: Core 2 Duo T7700 2 2 2.4 GHz 800 MHz 4MB 35W Core 2 Duo T7800 2 2 2.6 GHz 800 MHz 4MB 35W Core 2 Extreme X7800 2 2 2.6 GHz 800 MHz 4MB 44W Core 2 Extreme X7900 2 2 2.8 GHz 800 MHz 4MB 44W Before the CPU ugrade, please update the BIOS to the latest version. Please provide more information about your laptop configuration(HDD, RAM, CPU), did you use DVD disc or USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 flash drive, which program did you used to make bootable Windows 10, at which step did you stuck with the instalallation, did you delete all partition from the HDD and partitioned with Windows 10, did you get any error message? Thank you for watching, if my video or advice was useful, please consider to like, share, it helps my video with the RUclips Algorithm, good luck with the upgrade..
@@redigitt Hi thanks for the answer and for your help, personally I don't know how to update the bios in old laptops, where should I find the Bios file for Emachines E520? Could you give me a right link? The laptop is all original as from the factory, the only thing I did was change the HDD because the one it had was broken, I had an identical one and changed it by installing win 7. Intel Celeron M 2GHz CPU. Intel graphics GPU. HDD Z5K500-500 500Gb 5400RPM HTS545050A7E380. 2Gb DDR2 ram. Intel GL40 chipset. For the windows installation I used a USB 2.0 ISO image drive with Rufus. Regarding the installation of windows 10 it did not start, perhaps because I had created other partitions with Aomei partition assistant, but that in the end I managed to solve and get everything back as it was before. So if I try now it may be that it will let me install it. But the problem was about MBR or GPT because usually win 10 is better with GPT, but if I do it from GPT I get a screen that says to redo the key with rufus in MBR. This I don't know if it concerns why the bios is old or other components like the CPU.
You can download the BIOS file from the official support page www.emachines.com/ec/en/US/content/drivers.html 1. download the BIOS file and unrar 2. disable the Wifi card or unplug the LAN cable 3. restart the laptop 4. and only now run the KAWE0110.exe, you don't want to update the windows or any program when you update the BIOS Warning! During the update procedure: Make sure your battery is charged minimum at 25%. Make sure your system is connected to AC power. Do not disconnect the PC from the AC power. Do not shut down or reboot the PC. Do not connect or disconnect any USB device. Do it on your own risk, I will not be held responsable for any damages.
@@redigitt I try to put the SNID number on the site but it can't find anything. Then I put the model of acer E520 and I find the Bios version 1.06 of 2009 while in my laptop the version is higher, and the v1.10. very strange. How do I get a major version if the one on the site should be the latest?
Jihaaaaaaaaaa yes yes it works great man THX....... Hello, i did the same with my emachines e520 and it works great i must say. But i get from 156.0 to 400.8 (multi) and 157.6 to 205.1 (single). I think my old cpu was the same so how is this possible?
Aloha, for the upgrade I used a good quality thermalpaste, because the Core2Duo T7700 @ 2 40GHz has a higher TDP then the Celeron M575 @2.00 GHz and I made the benchmarks with a fresh installed clean windows. If you don't use a good quality thermalpaste and you don't clean your fan /heatsink the CPU will overheating and your CPU will not work at his best performance. I'm glad my video was useful, please share and subscribe , have a nice day.
Nice job. I own the e520 but I changed the T1600 cpu into T3400. I also tried the t9500, but it did not work. How were you able to update the bios? Where did you get the 1.1 version? I have the 1.04.
Thank you, the laptop came with the v.1.1 BIOS version. From here you can download the v.1.06 BIOS www.emachines.com/ec/en/GB/content/drivers.html Good luck.
@@redigitt hi. Does cpu compability differ from bios version? My E520 have v1.06 in stock. Thinking about celeron 575 cpu upgrade... not sure is it worth it.
Aloha, if you would like a better experience in: web browsing, watching clips on youtube and you would like to open the programs faster then the upgrade defiantly worth it, but if you would like to use the laptop for gaming, do not bother with the upgrade, because the laptop is too old for gaming. At 00:06:20 you can watch the windows experience index rating after the upgrade. For me personally it was worth it the upgrade. Good luck with the upgrade if you decided to upgrade and please share and subscribe, thank you for watching.
PS. I gained 39% in procesing power.
@@redigitt not even close to gaming, just dreaming of proper work of youtube at the moment 720p videos struggling to play without freezing. 4gb does not help. Also tried latest ubuntu, but performance is about the same. I just think if ram does not help, it could be that cpu gives only marginal boost and the end possible boutleneck is gpu - gma4500mhd.
What do you think?
Found cpu T7250 and upgrade was successful! Performance is slightly better but it's enough to keep pc and use for simple every day tasks. Thanks!
Здравствуйте.Хочу поменять процессор celeron на t7700.Но не могу найти обновление bios для emachines e520.Где его искать?На сайте Acer ничего нет.
Aloha, on the emachine E520 support page have been deleted the BIOS updates files, I find the 1.05 and the 1.06 BIOS update files on an external website,
DO THE BIOS UPDATE AT ON OWN RISK,
I will not be held responsible for any damages.
www.hwdrivers.com/ftp/fd_-slash-laptop-slash-acer-slash-emachines-slash-e520-slash-bios-slash-.html
Good luck with the BIOS update and CPU upgrade.
Thank you for watching.
Здравствуйте.У меня и так стоит bios v1.06.Так что я думаю мне не нужно будет обновлять bios.И процессор celeron m 575 выпущен позже чем t7700 поэтому я думаю, что моя версия bios будет его поддерживать.А вам спасибо за ответ.
I wanted to ask you, I would like to buy the cpu soon, do you think the extreme x7900 can work? Or is the TT700 just fine? How did you find yourself? Did the PC work fine? If I put on an Extreme will I have overheating problems or just a little more than normal?
I never had or used a laptop with x7900 CPU TDP 45W, but usualy a higher TDP CPU is hooter.
This is my theory, maybe I'm wrong or maybe not.
If your original CPU was a 27W TDP Celeron and you upgrade to a 45W TDP x7900, then in theory the CPU will use with 66,6% more power = more heat.
27W............100%
45W............x
===============
(45x100):27= 166,6
But if you upgrade to a 45W TDP CPU, then you should use a very good quality thermal paste and thermalpad.
Good luck and please leave a comment how went the upgrade, how hot was the CPU, I am very curious.
@@redigitt Ummm you made me doubt now ahahaha if there is this problem then I would opt for a smaller CPU, like the TT700 or the T7700. How did you feel with the TT700 differences in temperature and performance? Thanks a lot and of course I'll let you know
I used a good quality thermal paste, I didn't had any problem with the temperature, it was sligtly lower then with Celeron CPU. With the T7700 in the multi thred benchmark I gained 154%.....I think thats a very good result, I felt like I bought a new laptop.
If you have the money, you may consider to buy the T7800 is bigger with 200MHz.
@@redigitt I bought this today on ebay Intel Core 2 Duo T7800 CPU Dual-Core 2.60GHz 4MB 800 MHz Socket P CPU Processor, I hope it will go well, I read on the Russian site about an emachines e520 for sale that mounted this CPU, so I turned around a bit and decided to buy it
Should work very well, and you should have about 162% gain.
Hi, I wanted to ask you one more thing, your touch pad is The touch pad buttons work for you? Does your PC find your drivers? Because mine doesn't work and I don't know how to do it, I disassembled, but everything seems fine. But instead nothing to do does not work. I find nothing on the drivers, no touch pad name, nothing at all. Do you have any advice for me? Unfortunately this PC has many small problems that I am trying to solve.
This laptop has about 12 years, probably they won't make any new drivers.
And I had some bad experiences with Windows 10, when came a new release, some drivers wasn't compatible anymore.
You could try toinstall Windows 7 and then upgrade from Windows 7, maybe than will preserve the drivers, I'm guessing here.
I almost never use the touchpad on any laptop, I have big hands, for me is a nightmare the touchpad.
@@redigitt I have already Windows 7, I tryed to do many things to active the touch pad and the bottom attacked on touch pad, but nothing, I find the driver cause is hide, but also if I disable and reactive the driver o unistall, nothing change. Yesterday I opened the laptop and in those zone is everything OK, at least it seems. I try also to tpcuh the correct sequence of botton fn + F7 and nothing. 😢 I use touch pad, I find one on ebay together the top plastic, maybe I need to buy it, but my fear is that that doesn't work either. Try ank you very much brother
This laptop has driver support only for Windows XP and Vista www.emachines.com/ec/en/US/content/drivers.html
You could search for drivers with the hardware ID
You can try these drivers to drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hMHAFYP-gF243A_5J9x7zDpeB0jDpB1N?usp=sharing
@@redigitt On device manager and hidden, but there is, I see, Synaptics PS / 2 Port compatible touch pad, device status, the specified device is not present or not working properly or not all drivers are installed. Practically even if I install windows 10 does it find me the drivers? But I did not understand yours works or not?
@@redigittI asked a guy on eBay who sells this PC running windows 10 if the touch pad works, and he said yes. This is very strange maybe he told me a lie.
no problem about the FSB? the maximum of emachines e520 says fsb667 and that processor is fsb800...
No problem, the CPU is working OK with that BIOS.
Hi I have 3 questions, I have the same PC and I would like to upgrade it. So about the cpu is it only compatible Intelcore duo T7700 or can I put something better and more powerful? Is the ram a standard or must it be compatible with this PC? And about windows 10, I haven't been able to install it, I don't know why even if I converted to MBR it doesn't work, maybe it's because the CPU and the ram aren't enough? Sorry for my ignorance, but I've never done these things in the PC.
Aloha, personally I tried only up to T7700, but it should work these CPU's to:
Core 2 Duo T7700 2 2 2.4 GHz 800 MHz 4MB 35W
Core 2 Duo T7800 2 2 2.6 GHz 800 MHz 4MB 35W
Core 2 Extreme X7800 2 2 2.6 GHz 800 MHz 4MB 44W
Core 2 Extreme X7900 2 2 2.8 GHz 800 MHz 4MB 44W
Before the CPU ugrade, please update the BIOS to the latest version.
Please provide more information about your laptop configuration(HDD, RAM, CPU), did you use DVD disc or USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 flash drive, which program did you used to make bootable Windows 10, at which step did you stuck with the instalallation, did you delete all partition from the HDD and partitioned with Windows 10, did you get any error message?
Thank you for watching, if my video or advice was useful, please consider to like, share, it helps my video with the RUclips Algorithm, good luck with the upgrade..
@@redigitt Hi thanks for the answer and for your help, personally I don't know how to update the bios in old laptops, where should I find the Bios file for Emachines E520? Could you give me a right link?
The laptop is all original as from the factory, the only thing I did was change the HDD because the one it had was broken, I had an identical one and changed it by installing win 7.
Intel Celeron M 2GHz CPU.
Intel graphics GPU.
HDD Z5K500-500 500Gb 5400RPM HTS545050A7E380.
2Gb DDR2 ram.
Intel GL40 chipset.
For the windows installation I used a USB 2.0 ISO image drive with Rufus.
Regarding the installation of windows 10 it did not start, perhaps because I had created other partitions with Aomei partition assistant, but that in the end I managed to solve and get everything back as it was before. So if I try now it may be that it will let me install it. But the problem was about MBR or GPT because usually win 10 is better with GPT, but if I do it from GPT I get a screen that says to redo the key with rufus in MBR. This I don't know if it concerns why the bios is old or other components like the CPU.
You can download the BIOS file from the official support page www.emachines.com/ec/en/US/content/drivers.html
1. download the BIOS file and unrar
2. disable the Wifi card or unplug the LAN cable
3. restart the laptop
4. and only now run the KAWE0110.exe, you don't want to update the windows or any program when you update the BIOS
Warning!
During the update procedure:
Make sure your battery is charged minimum at 25%.
Make sure your system is connected to AC power.
Do not disconnect the PC from the AC power.
Do not shut down or reboot the PC.
Do not connect or disconnect any USB device.
Do it on your own risk, I will not be held responsable for any damages.
@@redigitt I try to put the SNID number on the site but it can't find anything. Then I put the model of acer E520 and I find the Bios version 1.06 of 2009 while in my laptop the version is higher, and the v1.10. very strange. How do I get a major version if the one on the site should be the latest?
@@redigitt Wich7 version of Bios do you have? And is it necessary to update the Bios before changing CPU or installing windows 10?
Jihaaaaaaaaaa yes yes it works great man THX.......
Hello, i did the same with my emachines e520 and it works great i must say.
But i get from 156.0 to 400.8 (multi) and 157.6 to 205.1 (single).
I think my old cpu was the same so how is this possible?
Aloha, for the upgrade I used a good quality thermalpaste, because the Core2Duo T7700 @ 2 40GHz has a higher TDP then the Celeron M575 @2.00 GHz and I made the benchmarks with a fresh installed clean windows. If you don't use a good quality thermalpaste and you don't clean your fan /heatsink the CPU will overheating and your CPU will not work at his best performance.
I'm glad my video was useful, please share and subscribe , have a nice day.
thanks
can you help me ? what cpu can i use for e527 ( celeron 900 ) ?
I never upgraded the e527, but I think all of this CPU will work, but I advice to not use higher TDP CPU then 35W, because it will overheat.
Mobile Celeron 900 1 1 2.2 GHz 800 MHz 1MB 35W +
Mobile Celeron 925 1 1 2.3 GHz 800 MHz 1MB 35W
Core 2 Duo E8135 2 2 2.667 GHz 1066 MHz 6MB
Core 2 Duo E8235 2 2 2.8 GHz 1066 MHz 6MB
Core 2 Duo E8335 2 2 2.933 GHz 1066 MHz 6MB
Core 2 Duo E8435 2 2 3.067 GHz 1066 MHz 6MB
Core 2 Duo P7350 2 2 2 GHz 1066 MHz 3MB 25W +
Core 2 Duo P7350 2 2 2 GHz 1066 MHz 3MB 25W +
Core 2 Duo P7370 2 2 2 GHz 1066 MHz 3MB 25W + +
Core 2 Duo P7450 2 2 2.133 GHz 1066 MHz 3MB 25W +
Core 2 Duo P7450 2 2 2.133 GHz 1066 MHz 3MB 25W +
Core 2 Duo P7550 2 2 2.267 GHz 1066 MHz 3MB 25W +
Core 2 Duo P7570 2 2 2.267 GHz 1066 MHz 3MB 25W +
Core 2 Duo P8400 2 2 2.267 GHz 1066 MHz 3MB 25W + +
Core 2 Duo P8600 2 2 2.4 GHz 1066 MHz 3MB 25W + +
Core 2 Duo P8700 2 2 2.533 GHz 1066 MHz 3MB 25W +
Core 2 Duo P8800 2 2 2.667 GHz 1066 MHz 3MB 25W +
Core 2 Duo P9500 2 2 2.533 GHz 1066 MHz 6MB 25W + +
Core 2 Duo P9600 2 2 2.667 GHz 1066 MHz 6MB 25W +
Core 2 Duo P9700 2 2 2.8 GHz 1066 MHz 6MB 28W +
Core 2 Quad Q9000 4 4 2 GHz 1066 MHz 6MB 45W +
Core 2 Quad Q9100 4 4 2.267 GHz 1066 MHz 12MB 45W +
Core 2 Extreme QX9300 4 4 2.533 GHz 1066 MHz 12MB 45W +
Celeron T3000 2 2 1.8 GHz 800 MHz 1MB 35W +
Celeron T3100 2 2 1.9 GHz 800 MHz 1MB 35W +
Celeron T3300 2 2 2 GHz 800 MHz 1MB 35W +
Celeron T3500 2 2 2.1 GHz 800 MHz 1MB 35W
Pentium T4200 2 2 2 GHz 800 MHz 1MB 35W +
Pentium T4300 2 2 2.1 GHz 800 MHz 1MB 35W +
Pentium T4400 2 2 2.2 GHz 800 MHz 1MB 35W +
Pentium T4500 2 2 2.3 GHz 800 MHz 1MB 35W +
Core 2 Duo T6400 2 2 2 GHz 800 MHz 2MB 35W +
Core 2 Duo T6500 2 2 2.1 GHz 800 MHz 2MB 35W +
Core 2 Duo T6570 2 2 2.1 GHz 800 MHz 2MB 35W +
Core 2 Duo T6600 2 2 2.2 GHz 800 MHz 2MB 35W +
Core 2 Duo T6670 2 2 2.2 GHz 800 MHz 2MB 35W +
Core 2 Duo T6900 2 2 2.5 GHz 800 MHz 2MB 35W
Core 2 Duo T6970 2 2 2.5 GHz 800 MHz 2MB 35W +
Core 2 Duo T8100 2 2 2.1 GHz 800 MHz 3MB 35W + +
Core 2 Duo T8100 2 2 2.1 GHz 800 MHz 3MB 35W +
Core 2 Duo T8300 2 2 2.4 GHz 800 MHz 3MB 35W +
Core 2 Duo T9300 2 2 2.5 GHz 800 MHz 6MB 35W +
Core 2 Duo T9400 2 2 2.533 GHz 1066 MHz 6MB 35W + +
Core 2 Duo T9500 2 2 2.6 GHz 800 MHz 6MB 35W +
Core 2 Duo T9550 2 2 2.667 GHz 1066 MHz 6MB 35W +
Core 2 Duo T9600 2 2 2.8 GHz 1066 MHz 6MB 35W + +
Core 2 Duo T9800 2 2 2.933 GHz 1066 MHz 6MB 35W +
Core 2 Duo T9900 2 2 3.067 GHz 1066 MHz 6MB 35W +
Core 2 Extreme X9000 2 2 2.8 GHz 800 MHz 6MB 44W +
Core 2 Extreme X9100 2 2 3.067 GHz 1066 MHz 6MB 44W + +
@@redigitt thanks,
I tried T4500 and it worked fine
I will try T9900 when i get it
Thank you for your feedback and good luck with the upgrade.
@@ahmedmohd1512 didi it work with T9900??
@@winer067
I tried only T4500 and it worked fine
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