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    Help with my new laptop upgrade, what should i upgrade?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by relaX, Aug 11, 2007.

  1. relaX

    relaX Notebook Enthusiast

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    its on a windows vista home premium with a geforce 8600m GT video card
    these upgrades are all for about 100 dollars and im going to be gaming a bit on this laptop which part should i upgrade?

    Processor: 2.0ghz 800fsb/4mb cache TO 2.2ghz 800fsb/4mb cache

    Hard Drive: 120gb 5400 RPM TO 160gb 7200 RPM

    Memory : 2gb 667mhz RAM TO 3gb 667 mhz RAM
     
    relaX, Aug 11, 2007
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  2. deathlycold

    deathlycold Notebook Guru

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    I'd say go for the hard drive, especially if you play a game that needs a DVD to be installed, such as Oblivion. High RPM good for all those conversation files and textures. Your nice gpu makes the processor not very important. Too bad the hard drive is the most time consuming upgrade.
     
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    laptopboss1 Notebook Consultant

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    I would go with the 3gb RAM it will make it alot faster
     
    laptopboss1, Aug 11, 2007
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    Padmé NBR Super Pink Princess

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    I'd go for the ram also.
     
    Padmé, Aug 11, 2007
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    allan_huang Notebook Deity

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    Definitely not the cpu. Ram or HDD is ok.
     
    allan_huang, Aug 11, 2007
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    I would do nothing. I mean if you want to upgrade for a reason, to improve performance then you are fine. Is your HDD full? It is fast enough, @7200 are nice but other than faster boot what are you going to see? Change CPU? You have a faster one than you need, it already has the full 4MB L2 so a few Mhz doesn't really matter. RAM, sure won't hurt but don't expect too much change you already have enough.
     
    baddogboxer, Aug 11, 2007
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