XPS m1530 with a T7700, worth an upgrade to T9300?

Hey all, I have a Dell XPS m1530 (32-bit Vista Ultimate, T7700, 3GB RAM, other relevant details on request). Seeing as I'm a spontaneous upgrader, would it be even remotely worth it to upgrade to a T9300 (or a 9500 if they're available/cheap enough by the time I get around to actually buying it) and go for that last gig of RAM? I know on a 32-bit system some of the memory would go to waste, but it's cheap. I'm mostly concerned with whether I'd see any performance increases with these upgrades.

Any advice?

 

Not worth it at all.

You will notice absolutely no performance increase. Your T7700 is more than capable of todays software.

You have a 32 bit copy of Vista Ultimate, so at most you can have about 3.2-3.5Gb of memory. A 32 bit operating system cannot see 4Gb of memory, you will have to upgrade to Vista 64 bit in order to utilize 4Gb of memory.

K-TRON

 

That's what I'd figured, thanks.

 

Dell has terrible pricing on their CPUs. IMO it's because they are trying to rid their older CPU's before offering better pricing on the new Penryns.

I wouldn't buy the XPS m1530 because of this.

I was in this same situation a few weeks back and decided to get a T61p after finding out that it was a much better deal for a similiar notebook.

 

SonDa5, you are correct in what you say except he is not talking about upgrading through DeLL. He already has. K-Tron said it already. But let me add. Save your money for what comes out in the future. We are close to what Intel is promising in July. Do I believe? No but it will come out so I would not go for that upgrade. AMD has stuff on the horizon. I know you are an upgrade junkie (you said). Now is the time to wait. $300 to $400 would be better spent on a new platform. IMHO!

 

Thank god LOL!!! I just got mine and I was thinking it was obsolete!!!LOL!!!

 

Not worth at all. U r better off spending money on something else. Even if u get it as a gift, dont change it unless it is already out of warranty as changing CPU voids warranty.

 

No it doesn't, cos I spoke with a well informed DELL technician a week back and he said it would not void warranty as long as the supported processors are installed. He even provided me the max. I can go on my mobo. He also pointed out that DELL will not provide support for the replaced processor but for the rest of the DELL hardware.

Besides, if DELL doesnt want its customers to snoop around the mobo, then it wouldnt provide all the technical documents for steps of removing and replacing the variuos components in the computer. It would just stick the warranty void stickers as the other manufacturers do!

 

somehow I stumbled upon this despite the date; the truth is, a 32-bit operating system can directly address 2^32 bytes (4GB) of memory. some versions of Windows (mostly pre-Vista, afaik) report what is available to other processes and the os itself after memory-mapping devices such as the video card. I believe this is where the misunderstanding is contrived from. point is, a 32-bit OS sees 4GB.