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    performance drop

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Thatguy1wastaken, Jan 10, 2011.

  1. Thatguy1wastaken

    Thatguy1wastaken Notebook Geek

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    Basicaly i'm curious about this. Say you do the benchmarks when you get your machine and then 3 months later you do them again will there be signifficent performance drop? Oh one more question, I've been configuring a laptop and I have nvidia 485m and the new SB processors and i'm wondering if purely for gaming the seagate hybrid hdd is worth the extra 75$ because i'll probably upgrade to a small ssd eventually.
     
    Thatguy1wastaken, Jan 10, 2011
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  2. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    If you keep the machine configured exactly as it was 3 months earlier, then the benchmarks should be identical (or within the range of error, anyways). If you do any program updates, BIOS updates, other hardware firmware updates and/or any O/S updates including installing more programs, then the benchmarks will not be comparable (they may be better, they may be worse - but they won't be comparable).

    The $75 extra is definitely worth it for the XT - it will allow you to wait indefinitely for a real SSD upgrade (small + SSD = low performance) to an SSD capacity that will allow you to enjoy the speed benefits of the SSD with your normal O/S + apps installation.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Jan 10, 2011
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  3. Thatguy1wastaken

    Thatguy1wastaken Notebook Geek

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    Ok thanks and so 4gb of ram is fine for gaming?
     
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    4 gigs of ram is usually fine for gaming (when you don't have other progs running in the background), as most of the games are coded in 32bit exes.
     
    svl7, Jan 10, 2011
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