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    What should i switch up first?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Anti-Hero, Mar 12, 2006.

  1. Anti-Hero

    Anti-Hero Notebook Enthusiast

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    im going to either buy a 120 gig 7200 rpm hard drive, or 2x1024 3200 ram for my lappy, I just want to know which would give me better performance?

    i read around that some of these laptops cants take 2 gigs of ram @ 400 mhz. something to do with not enough power to the ram. can anyone conferme this?

    thanks
     
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    matt_h1 Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Im not sure about the power thing but it depends one what your doing, Im asuming your using a 5400rpm drive now. For game load times and video editing the 7200rmp drive would give better perfomance, 1gig of ram is plenty for the vast majority of apps so id say the HD would be more useful though its going to eat your battery.
     
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    asolarian Notebook Guru

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    Depending on your current hard drive, a lot of times 7200 rpm hard drives offer little to no performance boost over some 5400 hard drives.
     
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    Two of these 1GB PC3200 SODIMMs will work. Dunno where you got your info from.

    If your current HD is 4200RPM, I'd lean heavily towards upgrading that since you already have 1GB of RAM. 7200RPM drives give you the fastest access times but streaming throughput isn't much better than 5400RPM drives. If I were to bother with a HD upgrade and didn't need the absolute largest drive available I'd get a 7200RPM drive. That's what I put in my zv5000z, didn't bother upgrading the 5400RPM drives my dv8000z came with.
     
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  5. Anti-Hero

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    i have 4200 rpm now so i think the harddrive is the best choice... is it conferemed that this model can take 2x 1024 3200 ?

    i want to get this processor off the divider
     
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    if you have a 4200rpm I would upgrade the HD no question about it.
     
    matt_h1, Mar 12, 2006
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