The X52S manual is not available but the K52F manual is very similar.
Unfortunately the K52F manual doesn't provide a lot of hardware specs... only general details.
For some reason the serial number tells Asus it's got DDR3 when the memory in it says DDR2 (so does the BIOS).
You can get some of the hardware details using CPUz: CPU, memory, motherboard, etc...
The hard drive interface is meant to be SATA1 (150 MB/s) but the reads and writes occur at SATA2 speeds (300 MB/s)... when using an SSD (used CrystalMark to benchmark).
This seems to happen sometimes with older systems whose specs insist they are SATA1.
[Read]
Sequential 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 273.043 MB/s [ 260.4 IOPS] < 30609.44 us>
Sequential 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 255.443 MB/s [ 243.6 IOPS] < 4097.25 us>
Random 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 118.005 MB/s [ 28809.8 IOPS] < 17327.60 us>
Random 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 14.145 MB/s [ 3453.4 IOPS] < 287.67 us>
[Write]
Sequential 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 193.357 MB/s [ 184.4 IOPS] < 42985.76 us>
Sequential 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 190.430 MB/s [ 181.6 IOPS] < 5496.14 us>
Random 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 83.132 MB/s [ 20295.9 IOPS] < 24906.57 us>
Random 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 20.767 MB/s [ 5070.1 IOPS] < 195.48 us>
The original HD was reading and writing only 50 MB/s... so this is a major improvement.
It's running Win10 OK... even though it's only got 2GB. Upgrading to 4GB (on order) should give it a major speed boost?
The only drivers Win10 didn't pick up correctly were the Ricoh Card drivers and PCI memory controller:
Download the Ricoh WinXP drivers and let Windows find and install the 64 bit version (simply point it at the right directory). The Ricoh drivers install in Win10 with no errors
The only only driver that didn't install is the PCI memory controller... which seems to be somewhat redundant anyway?
Anyone know which driver might suit the PCI memory controller?
Windows update often installs very old drivers so updated all the drivers using Driver Booster.
This resulted in 21 newer drivers: Wifi seemed a bit flakey after the update (had trouble connecting)... so rolled the driver back to the previous version.
It was a relatively trouble free upgrade.
Has anyone else attempted to upgrade to Win10?
🙂
P.S. Used the WD Acronis SSD tool to clone the existing drive to SSD (took about 2 hours). Vista runs just fine on an SSD.
Win10 seems to have less trouble finding appropriate drivers if you have a working OS on the laptop. That might account for the fact that virtually everything was working in Win10 right from the beginning.
The whole Win10 upgrade only took about 1 hour.
