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    Upgrade of a Cheapie

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jakejm79, Feb 10, 2009.

  1. jakejm79

    jakejm79 Notebook Consultant

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    I just wanted to share my story and thank everyone here with providing my the info I needed to delve into the land of notebook upgrades. So basically I just got my new Emachines eme520. After reading the informative forum here ordered a T3400 which I installed last night without any problems (a complete disassembly was required to get at the CPU all without a service manual :)) Anyway some Arctic Cooling MX2 and an hour later I now have a T3400 powered notebook with 2GB RAM and DVD RW all for less than $400. And considering I just sold my old A75-S209 on ebay for $350, I have gone from a P4 1.5GB DVD/CDRW to a T3400 2 GB DVDRW for about $50 plus its brand new. Now some undervolting and testing later I have about 3.5 hours of battery life and temps that never break 50C even after a 6 hours stress test.
     
    jakejm79, Feb 10, 2009
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  2. NJoy

    NJoy Няшka

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    wow, congratulations))

    but wait! You sold a P4 for $350? maan, my respect! lol
     
    NJoy, Feb 10, 2009
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  3. K-TRON

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

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    Nice, I am still in search of a P4M 2.6Ghz cpu. I would love to get one cause it would be a nice upgrade to the 2.4Ghz P4M I have.

    You got one awesome upgrade for $50
    Upgrade to 4Gb for another $50 and maybe go to a higher speed harddrive and your machine will run amazing

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Feb 10, 2009
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  4. RaYYaN

    RaYYaN Back on NBR :D

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    That's awesome man, really a great deal ;)
    I second what K-TRON says about upgrading the RAM and HD for an even meaner machine

    This just goes to prove everyone who says notebooks can't be upgraded wrong AGAIN :D
     
    RaYYaN, Feb 10, 2009
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  5. xxbadboys93

    xxbadboys93 Notebook Deity

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    Good job man
    definitively upgrade the hard drive and the ram.
     
    xxbadboys93, Feb 10, 2009
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  6. ahl395

    ahl395 Ahlball

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    Hmm, pretty cool, nice. ;)

    ANd i also second what K-TRON suggested. ;)
     
    ahl395, Feb 10, 2009
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  7. jakejm79

    jakejm79 Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks guys, I was thinking a HDD upgrade, tho it did come with a WD
    Scorpio Blue which is very quiet and fast enough for my needs. Maybe a SSD when they become reasonable. And maybe more Ram, but since I'm on W7x86 I figured I would go the cheap route to see how things were and I can't use the whole 4GB anyways. Now if only I could do something about that awful Intel X4500M (it's not even the X4500MHD :()
     
    jakejm79, Feb 11, 2009
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