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Question about upgrading my Asus notebook

Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Bucketzor, Jun 15, 2013.

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Hi, I have an Asus X53U-SX043V, With the dual-core AMD E-350 1.60GHz (64-bit) processor, 2G RAM, Radeon HD 6310 graphic card, the hard disk is a (Standard disk drives) (WDC WD32 00BPVT-80ZEST0 SATA Disk Device) so i think its a HDD with 320GB. This laptop is very slow.. even when i have no programs running in the background, it laggs. The thing is that i want to play games like minecraft that doesnt need much capacity, but of course my laptop is below average capacity, thefore i want to upgrade it. What do you guys think i should upgrade? is it enough to upgrade the RAM or do i need to upgrade the HDD too? (The ram and the hard disk are the only things i can upgrade, and i dont know if its worth to upgrade them both).. thank you

Bucketzor, Jun 15, 2013

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I had the Foxconn AMD E350 (same as yours) and upgraded it to 8GB RAM DDR3 PC12800 and an M4 512GB SSD.

The system is usable now.

Don't know how gaming would be (I don't know at all...) but before I did this it was going to be returned...

The performance jump seemed like at least 1 or 2 orders of magnitude.

Hope this helps.

tilleroftheearth, Jun 15, 2013

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