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    INSPIRON 640M related help needed!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by galbatrox9, Mar 9, 2012.

  1. galbatrox9

    galbatrox9 Notebook Consultant

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    Hey,

    Well at home i have this Inspirion 640m laptop. Its quiet slow and old.

    I want to fix it, so it runs faster.


    Im planning to get :
    1. 2 or 4gb Ram
    2. 120gb or 250gb hdd

    please suggest me which rams to get? i dont know which ones are compatible with my laptop

    and please suggest me what harddirve to get so i dont get the wrong one.


    what else can i do to make this baby go faster?
     
    galbatrox9, Mar 9, 2012
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Any flavor of DDR2 sodimm will work. Just don't get DDR(1) or DDR3.

    Any 2.5" SATA HDD will work. SATA 1, 2, and 3 are all backwards compatible with each other.

    Unless you have a Core Solo or some egregiously small amount of RAM, the best upgrade you can get is an SSD.
     
    Commander Wolf, Mar 9, 2012
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  3. Skander

    Skander Notebook Enthusiast

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    +1 for the SSD.
     
    Skander, Mar 9, 2012
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    bdp629 Notebook Enthusiast

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    For larger capacity, maybe you would like the Seagate 4GB+500GB hybrid drive? The 8+750 isn't really worthy for using with a such old laptop, though you can if you want to XD
     
    bdp629, Mar 10, 2012
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  5. galbatrox9

    galbatrox9 Notebook Consultant

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    i dont want to spend much on it as my mom's gonna use it, and she barely does anything, just watches movies and stuff. I just want it to run fine and not slow.

    current specs:
    1.8ghz processor
    1gb ddr2 sodimm ram
    80gb hhd
     
    galbatrox9, Mar 12, 2012
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  6. epguy3

    epguy3 Notebook Evangelist

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    that's the same configuration that my dell e1405 laptop uses.
    start off by upping your ram from 1Gb to 2Gb [can't go beyond 2gb with the 640m / e1405 laptop]
    then a 120 or 250Gb Western Digital SATA hard drive. WD hhds seem to be the most reliable hard disks and have never failed me.

    for the processor (though this one may be optional), an Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 processor.
     
    epguy3, May 2, 2012
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