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    M17x Upgrade (R2)

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by samuelchin7, Mar 2, 2011.

  1. samuelchin7

    samuelchin7 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Planning on upgrading my M17x-R2 to a 5870 XFire and 1TB of HDD or SSD. Shld i get the ssd upgrade?
     
    samuelchin7, Mar 2, 2011
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  2. JKleiss

    JKleiss Notebook Evangelist

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    I assume you mean a 1TB HDD or a SSD, not a 1TB SSD (that would be outrageously expensive!!!!!)

    Also is an upgrade of an allready owned system or one you are currently configuring?
     
    JKleiss, Mar 2, 2011
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    negyuh Notebook Consultant

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    Depends on the diskspace you want, SSD's are much faster then any HDD, so you could opt for a SSD/HDD combination in which you use a 60Gb SSD for boot and OS and the other disk (the HDD) for storage.
     
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    Mine is a system I already bought. Yes, i mean an upgrade to 1TB HDD or a 256GB SSD. I do not want to use the SSD just for OS Bootup. I also want to use it to store games. might change to a 128GB SSD
    But will the SSD last long?
    Will it beneficial?
    I am upgrading to a 1TB HDD cos my "LESS THAN 4 MONTHS OLD" 7200RPM HDD that used to get a 7.1 on the WPI now gets a 5.9 and regularly lags my games. A HDD would be ok
     
    samuelchin7, Mar 2, 2011
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    saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Have you tried defragmenting the hard drive? If that doesn't work, the drive might be on its way out, in which case you should start backing up your data and running diagnostics on it to see if that's indeed the case.

    An SSD should, at least in theory, last far beyond the lifespan of your computer. If you have the capability to run more than one hard disk in your machine, which you do, it makes more sense from a cost and capacity perspective to buy the SSD for the OS and a traditional HDD for games, media, and data. The SSD will do very little for games, aside from making levels load slightly faster.
     
    saturnotaku, Mar 2, 2011
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    Your HDD used to get a 7.1 in WEI? I find that doubtful without some sort of hacking, since WEI is generally locked to 5.9 for a platter based drive. This is not to say that you did the hacking or anything, but 5.9 for just about any platter based drive, no matter how fast, is "normal".
     
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  7. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    You need to ask yourself: what do I do that needs a 256 GB SSD? If it's gaming, a SSD is only going to reduce load times, you won't get any increase in FPS.
     
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  8. samuelchin7

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    i know a ssd won't help in increasing fps. on second thought i think an ssd is not good for me as it is too expensive. But should i upgrade the GPU?
     
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Adding another GPU will only help gaming on high resolution.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Mar 2, 2011
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    R2 comes at 1920x1200 IIRC, so he should see improvements in modern titles.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Mar 3, 2011
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  11. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Unfortunately not every R2 does, 1440x900 (which is the base resolution of the R2) would hardly see a performance gain with a 2nd GPU.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Mar 3, 2011
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  12. samuelchin7

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    my M17x has a 1920x1200 display. But the price for the gpu upgrade is tpp much. It costs SGD 700
     
    samuelchin7, Mar 11, 2011
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