What upgrades should i do when i get this laptop?

Ok i laywayed a laptop at a pawn shop,yeah i know buying used is not a good idea,but it's specs were very close to the specs i was looking for in a laptop,plus it was $150 cheaper than the new one i was looking at,and i have 30 days from the time i get it out,to return it,in that time i plan to stress test itwith stuff like prime 95,memtest,and furmark,but not all at once i don't want to fry it lol.

Here is the laptop i put on layway. HP Pavilion m6-1035dx AMD A-Series A10-4600M (2.30GHz) 6GB Memory 640GB HDD 15.6" Notebook Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - Newegg.com

I was at first looking at spending $550 on a laptop(including getting a mouse cause i hate trackpads),but since this one was a lot cheaper i was thinking that i could spend the extra on upgrades.

Well i looked up parts,but i don't know which to get,i am ok to go over my budget a little bit but not much.

SSD's:
Newegg.com - OCZ Vertex 450 Series VTX450-25SAT3-256G 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Mushkin Enhanced Chronos MKNSSDCR240GB 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - Newegg.com
Mushkin Enhanced MKNSSDCR240GB-DX7 2.5" 240GB SATA III 7mm Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - Newegg.com
Corsair Force Series GS CSSD-F240GBGS-BK 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - Newegg.com
Kingston HyperX 3K SH103S3B/240G 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (Upgrade Bundle Kit) - Newegg.com
Kingston SSDNow V300 Series SV300S37A/240G 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - Newegg.com

Ram:
Newegg.com - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Laptop Memory Model F3-1866C10D-8GRSL
Newegg.com - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (2 x 8G) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Laptop Memory Model F3-1866C10D-16GRSL

SSHD's:
Seagate Solid State Hybrid ST1000LM014 1TB Laptop Hard Drive - Newegg.com
Newegg.com - TOSHIBA Hybrid Drives MQ01ABD100H 1TB+8GB(NAND Flash) 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5" Laptop SSHD

Mice:
RAZER DeathAdder 2013 RZ01-00840100-R3U1 Black 5 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB Wired Optical 6400 dpi Essential Ergonomic Gaming Mouse - Newegg.com
Newegg.com - Logitech G400s 8 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB Wired Optical 4000 dpi Gaming Mouse
Newegg.com - Logitech G500S 910-003602 10 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB Wired Laser 8200 dpi Gaming Mouse
Newegg.com - Corsair Raptor M30 Black 6 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB Wired Optical 4000 dpi Gaming Mouse
SteelSeries Kinzu v2 Mouse - Newegg.com
RAZER Abyssus Mirror RZ01-00360500-R3M1 Black 3 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB Wired 3500 dpi Mouse - Newegg.com

If this helps for the mice,the main 2 i have owned and like was the older deathadder,and a logitech g9x.

Which of these upgrades should i get for $200 including getting a mouse?

 

I mean the priority of the upgrades are going to depend on what you use your laptop for (which you didn't state in your original post).

 

Oh sorry,i will want to use it for gaming(but i have like 500gb of games lol),and heavy web surfing(i tend to have up to 15 tabs running at a time),and when i am not doing those thing i wamt to watch movies/tv shows(either online,or on dvd).

 

Heres's something I find will be problematic with game play...I would get a Intel and dedicate GPU for game play if I were you. That AMD isn't going to have enough muster to game for you....game playing requires you to have dedicated GPU and GPU memory so you can run your 15 tabs and still game play. The one your looking at is going to die from game play and 15 tabs and streaming...

These two features don't bode well for core game playing.....Also what do you mean ???

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Buying a used laptop isn't always a bad idea (my X61t is used, too). Like a car, just make sure that it works **before** taking deliver of it (taking it out of the store).

Anyway, if you can afford it, I'd get the largest SSD you could buy (512GB+). But for whatever SSD you end up getting, I'd only recommend Crucial, Samsung, Plextor, or Intel only, as they have a much better reliability track record than any of the brands you mention (*especially* OCZ, who recently went bankrupt btw). If you can't afford the amount of storage you need in terms of pure SSD, you could go for a hybrid drive, like the Seagate you link to.

For the uses you describe, there's no real need for 16GB of RAM. 8GB would be plenty enough, and even then only if your laptop doesn't already come with 8GB.

I personally own a Logitech G9x (and other Logitech stuff) and I swear by them. Though I'm not too versed in the mice market, so I can't really comment on the other brands.

I have about ~600GB of games (just the programs themselves, not the saves, etc.). About 60-70 games or so.

 

Well i have a gaming desktop that i normally do stuff on,but when i am living now i have to set it up in the garage where it is barly better than outside temp wise,so i want a laptop that i can do some of my stuff inside when it is too hot or cold for me to get on my desktop.

I have checked online and in the pawnshop,for an intel laptop with a dedicated gpu,but i ave not found any within my $500 budget,and amd's onboard graphics are better than intel's.

I don't have to play my games at max settings,i am fine with lowest settings,and my steam account is over 500gb worth of games(which i have all installed on my main desktop)i won't want to install of all of them,but at least half of them,also i know that i will ave to close out most if not all my tabs while i am playing games.

 

The only SSDs,of the brands you suggested,are 120gb/128gb ones which arn't enough,so should i get mabye the 8gb of 1866mhz ram(whic will help the apu),and the SSHD,then put the old 640gb drive on my desktop,then sell the 6gb of ram and use that money to get a good mouse?

also i did not know OCZ went bankrupt,in my dekptop i have a 60gb OCZ SSD which i have had for 2 years.

 

Crucial/Samsung/Plextor/Intel certainly make SSDs much bigger than 128GB (hell, the two Intels I own are 160GB/180GB). You can get a Crucial M500 or Samsung 840 EVO 1TB, if you like.

The plan you describe sounds solid to me. Now just to figure out what would be a good mouse (which is pretty personal).

OCZ suffered badly early on thanks to the massively-unreliable first-gen Sandforce controllers, then they had the NAND swapping scandal, and since then they've been going very downhill. I usually tell people to avoid them like The Plague.

 

Add Mushkin to the list of "no, never, ever" drives. Their RAM is spectacular. Their SSDs suck.

The highest failure rate of *any* storage media I've *ever* experienced, bar none.

Of course, YMMV but you've been forewarned.

Happy shopping/upgrading.

 

the plague doesn't seem to happen to my np780 just yet but i'll see, the np780 is currently serving as a remote download and media viewing system, so basically its used for p2p into my other laptop's hdd, and viewing the media files in there remotely within the network

i'll just wait till the ssd dies after a long period of serving as a p2p disk cache, but it looks like it'll outlast the warranty lifetime-wise, whilst the continuous distribution of risk getting hit by the famous "panic lock" gradually increases in accordance to power on time, i think the most likely outcome is that it dies due to panic lock instead of writing over its 3000 cycles that takes 3 years or so if i continue my trend

 

^^^ Well, only 1/3 of Europe died from The Plague. Everyone else lived through it. It was still a pretty bad thing, though.

 

Not me I don't have the many on the other hand if we go with Nintendo DS/3DS games I have plenty of those close to 190 games...But my two biggest games are The Witcher and NWN Nights 2 of which I still need to finish.

 

My 2 cents here.
My Intel 520 - had no such prblms. OCZ is somthing i am not sure about, it has had quality issues erlier. Chck out dis link i found erlier Why I’m avoiding OCZ SSD’s | Michael's Techbox
When many of other ssd manufacturers used SF controllers and not everyone had those prblems.

 

i bad mouthed, it died 3 days ago, guess i should've stayed away but oh well, its a second hand with warranty left bought extremely cheap off ebay

 

Eh, that's the problem with SSDs: you don't know something's wrong until it's far too late. At least with a HDD you usually have something like the Click of Death or the like. Anyway, hopefully you had a recent backup of the data to fall back on.

 

it was a secondary laptop that does nothing more than checking email, BT client into the network drive of my main laptop, viewing videos on my main laptop, and viewing school lecture notes as i'm just a maths student, so all work is done on pen and paper, one of the most reliable form of storage other than the risk of misplacement

its back running on regular HDD, dead slow but works fine plus i always prefer a clean install, i have my data stored in seperate drives manually cause raid 1 does nothing if i mess up