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    MSI GX610 upgrades

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Ayle, Oct 25, 2009.

  1. Ayle

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    Hi, a friend and I are making plan to upgrade his msi gx610 during the winter break. Since I haven't been able to find a service manual for it, i'll need you help to know what parts will work on it.
    His current config is: 1.8ghz Turion 64 x2 tk-53, 2gb of ddr2 533 ram, and 120gb 5400rpm...

    What I was thinking about doing is:
    _Upgrade the cpu to a RM-74 or RM-70 but I don't know if they are compatible with the first generation socket s1.
    _Upgrade the ram to 4gb ddr2-800
    _320gb WD caviar black for the hard drive
    _upgrade the wxga panel to a wsxga or wuxga one
    _add bluetooth
    _replace the bison webcam by a chicony one that I have laying around and which doesn't have crappy drivers.

    What do you think?
     
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    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    How much will it cost and how much time will it take? Personally, I'd consider selling it and getting a new one, but then again I don't know the answers to the two questions...
     
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    Between: 50 and 80 for the cpu
    ram: 50
    hard drive: 70
    lcd: 80

    Everything else I already have. The lcd panel is non essential. so the whole upgrade shouldn't cost more than $250 and take more than one afternoon. I don't see the GX610 selling for more the 300 in it's current state. So if we added the money gained for the sale and the money put toward an upgrade($300), it wouldn't be possible to get a decent laptop with a discrete gpu at $600...
     
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    Wow not bad, thought it'd be more. Sounds pretty good, sorry don't know more about the CPU though.
     
    sgogeta4, Oct 25, 2009
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