Hard drive or cpu?

I have a compaq v5000 with a older hard drive im not sure if its a 5400rpm or 4200rpm drive. Anyways it has a celeron 420 in it right now. I am about to sell this laptop to someone for basic office work. I bought it 2gb of ram and im either doing one or the other of the two upgrades but not both because thats too much money. So which will i see more preformance gains from. Also the hard drive i was looking at is http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148253 How good is that one?

 

upgrading the cpu from a celeron would be the humane thing to do

and make the biggest difference

 

I'm not so sure about that. A newer, faster HDD with a clean install will make the biggest difference imo

 

It would have a clean install of windows vista or xp not sure what the person getting it wants.

 

I agree with both guys, upgrade the cpu and make a clean installation, not hdd upgrade necesary, only a clean install, cpu will help much more, but there's something that that makes me thing it twice, you tell me guys, have you noted that compaq notebooks used to get very hot and died for experiment high temperatures?, it's probable that the notebook present his problem if you put it a faster cpu, i'm talking particulary of the compaq notebooks, what do you thing guys?

 

No heat problems in this notebook it runs nice and cool well around 50°C but it dosent have step speed and thats not really that hot i think.

 

if you say so, i really recomend a clean installation of the OS, and the cpu upgrade, and how expesive the cpu upgrade will be?

what do ou have in mind?, pentium dual core?, core 2 duo?, core duo t2400?

 

$50 - $60 i was looking at a t5200 core 2 duo on ebay.

 

Or a core solo t1400 i belive was the model number. How would that be?

 

On second thought scratch the t1400 it dosent have 64 bit the other option for 64 bit that isnt a core 2 duo would be well... a celeron 530 lol

 

Someone may correct me if i'm wrong here! But whatever you do, just don't buy an ES cpu! They may most definately have bugs in them making them not worth the price.


But i'd upgrade the HDD if it where a 4200rpm HDD original to a 7200rpm one. That does much for the performance!

 

there's no much diference betwen celeron 420 and 530, it's still a celeron, the core duo would be ok, not everybody needs 64 bit support, you consider it

 

are you sure about that?, i have an asus u6 and it has a 5400rpm hdd and works, veeeeerry well, because it's equiped with a core 2 duo and 3gb ram memory

 

Note that i said 4200rpm HDD and not 5400rpm HDD 5400 is fine aslong as it's one of the 5400rpm drives that isn't among the "slow" ones!

But yeah, it should work fine for you, with those specs

 

For office work, i don't think a CPU will make much of a difference, nor an HDD for that matter. Maybe more the HDD actually, would improve load time of programs.

 

Ok i bought the hard drive i linked in the first page for it. I also wanted it to be new and reliable to last awhile

 

better HDD would be better than better CPU. Almost always