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    Christmas present

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jantill, Dec 21, 2009.

  1. jantill

    jantill Newbie

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    I am wishing to convert my wife's dell inspiron 5000e hard drive (travelstar djsa-232 32 gb ata/ide) hard drive to a sshd in the 60-80 gb range. what sshd would you recommend
     
    jantill, Dec 21, 2009
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  2. goofball

    goofball Notebook Deity

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    Not really worth it, to be honest with you.
    are you asking about an SSD (solid state) or an HDD?
    Since you are on the old PATA interface, your options are somewhat more limited.
     
    goofball, Dec 21, 2009
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  3. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    Another worthwhile present might be a RAM upgrade or perhaps a webcam, if she has use for one and the Inspiron doesn't have one built-in.
     
    Bog, Dec 21, 2009
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  4. jantill

    jantill Newbie

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    Solid state hard drive. I already increased her ram to the max. I cant get rid of the computer as it was a gift from her deceased mother and it has sentimental value, hence why the change in hard drives to try and increase the performance and to reduce the heat increasing life span
     
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  5. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    To decrease the heat, try undervolting.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Dec 21, 2009
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  6. thinkpad knows best

    thinkpad knows best Notebook Deity

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    Blast out the heatsink by taking it out and using an air compressor (very carefully), scrape old thermal compound from CPU and apply fresh compound to CPU as well as GPU if it's a discrete GPU, try undervolting the GPU by using a BIOS mod program, VoltageTuner is a good one, i think it is real time voltage control however. HDD shouldn't be responsible for THAT much heat in a laptop.
     
    thinkpad knows best, Dec 21, 2009
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  7. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    Voltage Tuner appears to be designed for high-end desktop Nvidia GPUs.
     
    Bog, Dec 21, 2009
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  8. jantill

    jantill Newbie

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    The change in hard drives is also to accommodate more files. so I am really interested in which solid state hard drive anyone recommends that is ATA/IDE for a laptop
     
    jantill, Dec 21, 2009
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  9. goofball

    goofball Notebook Deity

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    goofball, Dec 21, 2009
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    $immond$ Notebook Consultant

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    PATA SSD's are not worth there price in gold.
     
    $immond$, Dec 21, 2009
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  11. sean473

    sean473 Notebook Prophet

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    agreed... just buy her a new PATA hard drive...
     
    sean473, Dec 22, 2009
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