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    Upgrade Core Duo

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Felipe0631, Apr 7, 2008.

  1. Felipe0631

    Felipe0631 Newbie

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    Hello people.

    I have a Toshiba Qosmio G35-av600 with a t2400 dual core processor.

    Is it worth it to upgrade to a t2700, i found one on ebay for 169.99.

    Also i want to know if i can upgrade my video card wich is a Nvidia GeForce Go 7300 256mb Vram.

    Thanks.
     
    Felipe0631, Apr 7, 2008
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    SmoothTofu Inspiron 1420 Owner

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    If you're going to upgrade your processor, go for a Socket M Core 2 Duo. You'll get better value versus an upgraded Core Duo processor. As for your GPU, I'm afraid what you have is what you're stuck with, as it's not upgadeable.
     
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    Felipe0631 Newbie

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    Ok so i found a t7400 for around 200$ so now what you say? is it worth it?
    i want to upgrade specially because i'm not going to get a new pc for like a year or so. Also i have 2.5gb of ram, i heard that 4gb is just not worth it or should i upgrade, i can find the extra 2gb for around 20$.

    Thank you for your help.
     
    Felipe0631, Apr 7, 2008
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  4. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Where did you find a T7400 for $200?

    Do not even bother upgrading your memory if you already have 2.5Gb of memory.
    You can upgrade for $20, but if you have a 32bit operating system it will only ecognize around 3.0-3.6Gb of memory. This would not be much of an upgrade in the memory department, and its up to you if its worth $20.

    You cannot upgrade the video card in your system.

    What harddrive do you have? you may be better off buying a faster harddrive if your system has a slow 4200 or old 5400rpm drive in it.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Apr 7, 2008
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    goofball Notebook Deity

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    Felipe0631 Newbie

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    yes, is that one. so what do you think guys should i upgrade or wait a year or so to buy a new computer??
    Also i would upgrade a t1350 from another computer to the t2400 that i take from this computer.

    Thank you..
     
    Felipe0631, Apr 8, 2008
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  7. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    I do not know if you can upgrade your t1350 core solo to a core duo t2400.
    You will be able to upgrade the t2400 to a t7400.

    SInce you are upgrading 2 computers with $200, I would say its worth it,
    but I would wait to here if you can even put the t2400 in the machine you have the t1350 in.

    Any computer with a t7400 will have a good resale value in two years, so you will be able to get quite a bit for that laptop. That is if youre going to sell it and buy a new computer in two years.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Apr 8, 2008
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    Kanedmick Newbie

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    Hi!

    I am also looking at the T7400 as well because the T7600 is a little expensive at the mo - at least on ebay.

    K-TRON - you mention a drive upgrade. I've got a 120gig 5400rpm which came standard - what upgrade options would you suggest.

    The plan is to put off buying a new machine for a year at least so a chip upgrade would be what I am looking at. I had also looked up some SSD but they are a bit pricey too????

    Ta!
     
    Kanedmick, Apr 9, 2008
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  9. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Kanedmick,
    well I dont know what kind of laptop you have.
    Their are two interfaces, ATA and SATA.
    Since you have a socket M core based processor, I am assuming that your system has a serial ATA harddrive (SATA)
    On average, a 120Gb 5400rpm sata notebook harddrive has a 31.8mb/sec average read speed.
    If you wanted, you could upgrade to a 250Gb 5400rpm drive, which will give you a 47mb/sec average read speed,
    or you could upgrade to the fastest laptop harddrive, the Samsung/WD 320gb 5400rpm drive, which is able to do 52.7mb/sec average read speeds.

    This chart summarizes the speeds of common SATA laptop harddrives.
    [​IMG]

    I hope this helps

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Apr 9, 2008
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    Thanks K-TRON. Much appreciated.
     
    Kanedmick, Apr 12, 2008
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