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    How is battery life affected with you upgrade your system?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by bdjufynot, Apr 28, 2006.

  1. bdjufynot

    bdjufynot Notebook Enthusiast

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    Say the system comes such as stock:

    Intel Duo Core T2300 1.66GHZ
    512MB 533 DDR
    100GB 5400RPM

    and you upgrade it to:

    Intel Duo Core T2500 2.00GHZ
    1.5GB 533 DDR
    100GB 7200RPM


    how would this affect battery life?
    is there 1 upgrade in there that would affect it more than others?

    also, if the 6cell battery says 4 hours battery life, how much would the 9cell approximately give me? 6 hours?

    thanks alot!
     
    bdjufynot, Apr 28, 2006
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  2. ejl

    ejl fudge

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    i know that the harddrive may probably take away a good 20-30 minutes. other then that, i'm not sure. i'm assuming you are talking about the w5f? i just thought you should know, if you upgrade your cpu, you will void your warranty if you have one.
     
    ejl, Apr 28, 2006
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  3. drumfu

    drumfu super modfu

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    piggybacking on what ejl said;

    you might get a tradeoff if you upgrade to 1.5 ram AND get a faster HD at the same time because you will probably page to the HD a lot less with more RAM which will probably offset the battery life loss you will experience with the faster HD
     
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  4. bdjufynot

    bdjufynot Notebook Enthusiast

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    I will be getting the upgrade done by a company who has their own warranty (extended if you want)

    Star Tech

    http://pc11.flashecom.com/startech/config_system.asp


    so its fine to upgrade the CPU and the RAM but the HD might make me lose significant time?
     
    bdjufynot, Apr 28, 2006
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    bdjufynot Notebook Enthusiast

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    so getting more ram and a faster HD is the GOOD thing to do?

    it will make it so I don't lose much battery life?
     
    bdjufynot, Apr 28, 2006
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    RogueMonk Notebook Deity

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    I have to disagree about the batter life. You will find that the faster HD consumes little if any more power. The Hitachi 7200rpm drives are great. They are fast and they are stingy with power.
     
    RogueMonk, Apr 28, 2006
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