Thanks for your reply
siaan312.
Is that a laptop motherboard?
Oops, yes, I forgot to say it is a laptop.
The guess by
rgd1101 was close, its a 5538.
Though unless you have a special need for it, that socket doesn't have any cpu you might want in 2020.
siaan312, I'm not expecting more than a slight increase.
To some extent this is a learning exercise.
The CPU is not soldered in.
One page I read suggested that an L510 or a TF-20 might be compatible. These are dirt cheap, wheras a replacement used laptop would cost me anywhere from $150 to $450, depending how lucky I got.
On cpu-upgrade.com, a dozen or so CPUs are listed as socket-compatible up to a TL-68, but I don't know how to find out if any are board-compatible. ACER does not seem to have data available on this. And cpu-upgrade.com does not list my board.
Brixit