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    CPU Advise, please

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by asyid2003, Jul 20, 2012.

  1. asyid2003

    asyid2003 Newbie

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    Hi,
    I am looking for advise on what CPU I can upgrade my laptop to; it is:

    Toshiba Satellite P200-155, Intel Core [email protected], NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600, 4Gb DDR2 667 SODIMM memory.

    Also, how difficult would this be for a novice like myself to do (the only thing I have done is upgrade the memory!)?

    Many thanks in advance.
     
    asyid2003, Jul 20, 2012
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Since you've already got a T5300, you can probably use any Socket M processor up through the T7600. T7600 and T7400 are expensive for what you get, though; the T7200 is probably a good compromise. The difficulty of swapping the CPU will vary from machine to machine. That being said, unless you are definitively being CPU limited in some application, you will probably get a greater overall boost in performance by getting an SSD instead of a new CPU.
     
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    asyid2003 Newbie

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    Many thanks for that. My laptop sometime freezes when i am streaming video -looking at the performance sidebar, CPU is at 100%.

    Could you give me more details about SSD, please? Thanks
     
    asyid2003, Jul 20, 2012
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    ellalan Notebook Deity

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    ellalan, Jul 20, 2012
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  5. TANWare

    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    A SSD will do nothing for CPU load. if you are at 100% load another CPU may be the ticket then again you need to find out what is so intensive. The 7600 series should take decoding on the GPU not CPU. So it does sound like something else here is wrong............
     
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    asyid2003 Newbie

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    Many thanks -that's great :)
     
    asyid2003, Jul 20, 2012
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    Hi TANWare -the problem seems to be when using Chrome or Firefox (AVG sometimes gives a warning that they are using high memory. I do tend to have a few tabs open at the same time.

    I have just done the tweaks shown here for turning things off to help Vista.

    Any further ideas would be great, thanks.
     
    asyid2003, Jul 20, 2012
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    baii Sone

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    What kind of content you are streaming? I had a T7200 + integrated graphic that struggle under 1080p content.

    Sound more like a Vista + page file problem to me though.
     
    baii, Jul 20, 2012
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  9. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    Two questions:

    What O/S are you using (I hope it's Win7x64...)?

    How many processes are running 10 minutes after rebooting to the desktop (should be in the high 30's or low 40's...)?

    I would suggest a clean Win7x64 install, install more RAM (8GB is not out of the question if your platform supports it) and disabling System Protection. If you're able to use 8GB RAM (the only way to know for certain is to simply try it in your system - don't go reading conflicting 'specs') then also disable the pagefile too (in 'test mode', of course).

    To really make your machine fly: Try the Win8 Preview - although the user interface sucks; the performance of the O/S is really amazing on older systems.

    Good luck.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Jul 21, 2012
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