more memory

I have 4 gigs of memory in my laptop now, was thinking of going to 6 gigs of memory I have windows 7 64 bit. Will I notice a big difference in performance or should I just save my money and get a ssd drive.

 

I would (and did) upgrade my hard drive to SSD first unless you have specific needs for more memory.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5941348&postcount=1

 

Unless you're getting low memory errors now, you won't see any difference in performance.

 

Sgilmore62 we have the same lap-top except your's is alot faster then mine lol. Witch one do you recommend ?

 

will that be big enough to install windows 7 and some games?

 

I have Windows 7, various programs, and Dragon Age: Origins (which is ~20GB) installed on my 60GB OCZ Agility SSD and I still have 27 GB of free space.

 

Yes, 80gb is plenty of space for Windows 7 and a couple of games, you will see that games will install/uninstall quickly with that Intel drive. It doesn't have TRIM but you can still maintain performance using AS freespace cleaner with FF checked.


I would recommend this one: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5941348&postcount=1

 

Thx, How hard is it to install ? I just bought windows 7 and would like to do a clean install with the ssd drive and use my 320 hard drive as back up.

 

Clean installs should be a breeze. Just pop the SSD into your hard drive bay (you may want to consult guides on how to do this, but it's generally straight-forward) and place Windows 7 into your optical drive. You don't have to worry about partition alignment or whatnot; Windows 7 will automatically take care of that for you. Just follow the installation steps and you'll be on your desktop soon enough.

If you want to use your current hard drive as a backup, you might want to consider buying an external enclosure, which can convert your hard drive into a portable backup solution. That's what I did with my setup and it works fine. I bought a generic external enclosure for very cheap (~$8) off of eBay; as far as quality is concerned, the enclosure is acceptable, but more importantly the setup functions as it should.

 

Thx for all of the info I am going to order it now...

 

One more quick ? Will I notice a difference if I install my games on the 7,200 hard drive and use the ssd for my operating system ? What I mean is will my games play faster on the ssd drive?

 

Games should load faster on the SSD idk about playing faster.

 

Games will not play faster; you want a better processor and graphics card for better performance. SSDs will allow your game to load faster, including initialization of the application from your desktop, any loading that occurs in-game (such as loading levels). It is advisable to place at most 2 or 3 games on your SSD. The rest that you don't play as often should go onto your HDD. When you're finished with a game on your SSD and won't be playing it anymore, uninstall it and install a new game.

 

Get an Intel G2 SSD if u must.. But it will only generally speed up day to day tasks like opening windows etc and transfering files... It will reduce the loading time for games but will not make the games run better... For that u need a new CPU or GPU...