T61P ordered, what next?

Hey guys, just got a really good deal on my T61P. Got it for $1318.27 plus tax of course, but man I'm loving my specs. I'm thinking about ordering G.SKILL 4GB 667 Mhz at CAS 4 Latency. Any comments on the memory or what I should also get?


Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor T9300 (2.5GHz 800MHz 6MBL2)
Genuine Windows Vista Business 64 Bit
15.4 WSXGA+ TFT
NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M (256MB Open GL)
1 GB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz SODIMM Memory (1 DIMM)
UltraNav (TrackPoint and TouchPad) with Fingerprint Reader
160GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm
DVD Recordable 8x Max Dual Layer, Ultrabay Slim
Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN (supporting Centrino Pro)
Integrated Bluetooth PAN
9 cell Li-Ion Battery

 

G.Skill is fine, but if Crucial or corsair memory is only a few dollars more, I would get the crucial or corsair memory.

Nice system you have there
Welcome to the boards

K-TRON

 

I would get the bracket for the second hd

unfortunately the 2nd hd has to be ide or correct me if im wrong. Id look at what a 320 gb ide laptop hard drive goes for.

 

I don't believe it supports a 2nd internal HDD. 320GB IDE? 160GB is the largest notebook IDE I believe.

 

yes it supports a 2nd internal hd you take out the dvd player.

If 160 gb is the largest ide drive then i would look for one of those.

 

A DVD? Thanks, and yea sounds like IDE?

 

The largest ata based notebook drive is the western digital 250gb 5400rpm drive.
But literally, the 160gb 7200rpm drive is going to be plenty powerful for most tasks.

K-TRON

 

Yeah, I don't really need another drive. Already got a terabyte. Anyways, what's the deal with Crucial/Corsair, how do they compare to G. Skill. I am probably looking into overclocking too, so give me some insight. BTW thanks for the replies guys.

 

Well you are not going to be able to overclock your notebook, so that is out of the question.
Crucial and Corsair use high performance memory, usually Micron memory chips, which have more compatibility and greater life.
Some of the cheaper memory brands use lower quality ram chips, which tend to go corrupt faster.

G.Skill has been gaining ground lately, but they are not on the same par as corsair/crucial memory.

Simply, if you dont care about brand, just get memory which has a lifetime warranty.

K-TRON

 

The Ultrabay HDD adapter supports SATA so you'll need SATA drives. I have one myself and it works great. If you want IDE you'll need to find an Ultrabay that is IDE only which I'm not even sure is available.

 

As for Ram pretty much any brand will do..the Crucial/Corsair thing really is only true for desktop ram where you'll see a difference especially if you plan to overclock. But on notebook ram pretty much all brands have similar type ram ie. any vanilla 667Mhz Ram will do. You'll see adverts for PC2-5400 ram like OCZ as opposed to PC2-5300 from others but that's so they can charge you more, the kicker is your notebook isn't going to benefit from it. As long as its DDr2-667 ram you're fine.

 

Does it still matter if it's CL-4 or CL-5 with DDR2 notebook memory? Are there not even a little performance increase?

 

G.Skill will advertise CL-4, but everyone else has CL-5.
Whether the G.Skill has CL-4, nobody knows, cause nobody every posted a CPU-Z scan of the memory.

Yes, Cl-4 is better than CL-5, but whether you would notice the difference, you will not.

K-TRON

 

Thanks. BTW just got my price down to 1257.98 using ecoupon USPGRANDSLAM. Lenovo FTW.

 

K-T somebody posted saying yes but no screen shot. Can't remember right now but might try and find. Sounded authentic to me. Oh and what do mean can't tell real world? Are you trying to say I can't tell 1ms from 2ms ? I have a stopwatch!