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    Upgrade for Asus ROG G46VW

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by DragonClaw, Jul 7, 2017.

  1. DragonClaw

    DragonClaw Newbie

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    So, I would like to see if my dad's old (He upgraded to a 1TB and has left behind a Samsung Evo 850 SATA3 240 GB drive) is compatible and will be useful to my older, slowing laptop (boots slower, etc). I may end up not copying over anything to my new drive and starting fresh.

    But long story short, how do I do this and will this even help me that much? I've already doubled the RAM. Is my laptop SATA 3 compatible?
     
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  2. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Seems like your laptop has a single 2.5" SATA bay so you can remove your current HDD and chuck it in a USB enclosure and replace it with the SSD drive. It will improve loading times. Personally, I think it is one of the best things you can do to improve responsiveness in a computer.
     
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  3. murixbob

    murixbob Notebook Enthusiast

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    Even if the old laptop only supports SATA 2 it will still be a huge improvement. I currently have a laptop that I upgraded to a Samsung 850 evo ssd and it only supports SATA 2 speeds. Still much faster then a standard hard drive.
     
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  4. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    Clean install of Windows, drivers as needed. (Windows 10 x64 Pro highly recommended).

    As mentioned above; will make a huge improvement in responsiveness. Actual 'hp'? Not so much.

    Especially if you 'doubled' the RAM to more than 8GB...

    What do you expect this system to do? What are your workflows/workloads? What O/S, processor and how much RAM do you actually have installed (could you get the system to 16GB RAM)?
     
    tilleroftheearth, Jul 8, 2017
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