JFL92 Questions

Hello all,

I'm new here and I'm hoping a few of you may be able to help me. My hard drive took a crap on me, so I decided to drop in Windows 7 64 bit. It seems to be ok, I hadn't changed anything and I am wondering if I need to? My hard drive seems to be filling up quite fast which I've never done before lol. I didn't change drivers for anything unless prompted to and most seems ok. My sound suck though. lol

I ran XP 32bit before, which is why I'm asking if I need to do anything else. I guess I would like more performance. If you need more info, let me know.

I currently run Intel Core 2 DUO CPU T8300 @ 2.40GHz, 3GB RAM, Service pck 1

I'm pretty sure it came with XP 32bit and I'm not sure if that matters? It also came with Navidia 8600 (I know, it sucks)

 

Not sure what you exactly want to know.

If everything works, your good. As you said, you updated your drivers. Win7 will use more hard drive space than Win XP, that's normal.

Have fun!

 

Thanks for the reply. Just making sure nothing was needed with an older laptop going from 32 to 64bit. I'm loving the Win7, just harder to know what to delete and what not, and or if there are any updates or upgrades I would want to do to improve performance. Would adding more RAM be possible? Also, what about the graphics card? I've read somewhere that it's hard to upgrade because of compatibility? And hard to do yourself? I saw the manual to tear this down, which I've done and it doesn't seem all bad.

 

If you installed Win7 yourself, which I assume, I would not delete anything. Normally, when buying a laptop of the shelf, it comes with loads of (crap) utilities. Then I start deleting stuff, or actually, wipe it and make a fresh install.

The 64bit version of Windows 7 takes again more space than the 32 bit version (XP <<< Win7 32 < Win 7 64).

Btw, you won't gain much from using 64 bit with (only) 3GB RAM - you would need 5 to 6 to really have a difference (which depending on what you actually do with your laptop, might not even notice anyway). But as you already have it installed, I'd stick to 64 bit.

Regarding upgrades:
First off, I wouldn't do it, you have a 4 to 5 year old laptop. If you want to upgade, sell it, and get a new one - with at least 2 years of warranty.

Your options:
8GB RAM, sure an good upgrade, but you will need DDR2 RAM, which will cost you around 150€ (unless you find something really cheap) - DDR2 is old, thus rare, thus expensive. 8GB DDR3 RAM, which won't fit, is sold for around 50€ ...
CPU: T9300/T9900 used, 100-150€ - naaah
GPU: ATI 4650 - used, 100€ ... depends, also quite old, so do you call it an upgrade if you can play 3 year old games now in higher resolution? Because it can't handle up-to-date games in full details, either
Display: 1680x1050 - if you like, yeah - 50-100€

As I said, I would not do it?

Btw, what is your user profile? Gamer, Developer, Multimedia, Internet?

Cheers