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    A few questions about Better Performance?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by rydude07, Jun 14, 2006.

  1. rydude07

    rydude07 Notebook Evangelist

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    Would you rather haev a 5400 rpm hard drive and 633mhz ram, or 7200 and 533 mhz ram? ( i think those numbers are right)

    Also, for bang of buck, would you go for the duo 1.6, 1.8, or 2.0 or 2.1?
     
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  2. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The hard drive is going to give more noticable performance boost than the RAM. The difference between 533MHz and 667MHz is minimal. But program loading times are affected positvely by the faster hard drive.

    Bang for buck, I would go with the 1.83GHz T2400. The T2300 shouldnt be bad either.
     
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  3. TedJ

    TedJ Asus fan in a can!

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    +1 to miner's comments above.

    The improved bandwidth of 667MHz RAM is neatly negated by the higher latency on currently available modules. Down the track sticks with tighter timings should be available and they'll invariably cost less too. Buying today, the faster HDD will give better performance.

    The 1.83GHz T2400 was always recommended as the sweet spot, but with Intel's recent rebates on Core Duo CPUs you may find it's moved to the 2.01 GHz T2500... as long as your notebook manufacturer of choice passes on the saving. To be honest though, anything from the T2300 up is going to fly so I wouldn't obsess over it. :)
     
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  4. NOSintake

    NOSintake Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    yea, i would go with the faster hard drive. the hard drive is the slowest part of your computer, and bottlenecks your performance. so, if u better the hard drive, in theory, you should improve your computer
     
    NOSintake, Jun 14, 2006
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