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    Upgrade D630 CPU

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by coolink, Mar 31, 2008.

  1. coolink

    coolink Notebook Geek

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    I bought a D630 with a T7100 CPU, 120GB 7200rpm and 2X1GB Ram. Today I saw at Dell website that you can put a T9300 on it. Is it worth upgrade my CPU to the T9300? I mainly use my Note for everyday tasks such as Office E-mail and Internet surfing.
     
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  2. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    If that is all you do with the notebook, there is absolutely zero benefit to your upgrading the CPU. If you have less than 2GB of RAM, get 2-3GB of RAM and that will perform better. Or get a faster/bigger hard drive if you need it.
     
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    Greg is completely correct. You would just be flattening your wallet.
     
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    hylton Notebook Consultant

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    I also agree, I went back and forth about upgrading my CPU after ordreing my D630 w/ the T7300 CPU. I opted for the memory upgrade (had 1gb, went to 2gb, huge improvement). It wasn't the CPU that was slowing me down, it was the lack of memory and HD thrashing that was going on w/ virtual memory.

    I doubt, given what you are doing, that you need more than 2gb, even w/ a few services running, Vista out of the box doesn't need to scarf up much more than a gig or so. I was running a Virtual PC 2k3 server in addition to Vista and needed to go to 4gb, but for day to day use, I don't notice any speed improvements between 2gb and 4gb (~3.5 actually).

    Chris
     
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  5. coolink

    coolink Notebook Geek

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    Ok Guys. thanks

    I´ll keep my CPU for now. I don´t think I´ll change any other components.

    2GB DDR2 667Mhz for me is more than sufficient. (Vista Ultimate)
    120GB HD 7.200 rpm (Seagate Momentus) it is fast for me.

    The only upgrade I think I´ll do in the future is the CPU.
     
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