averatec 5110 series

:centrino: ive owned a 5110h for a year and 3 months and it has been flawless the entire time except i did have to install a new wireless card after haveing it for a year and a month lol just after the warranty went and batt life on this is great i have been able to watch 2 dvd movies and have an hour of batt life remain and this is consistant batt life to it will go 4 hours even with wifi going and hard core net surfing and checking email rock solid and very stable this machine is

 

:centrino: also does anyone know if this laptop can handle 2 gigs of ram

 

It should handle 2 gigs of ram. What does the manual say?
-Andrew

 

AFAIK I think its 1GB max.

 

:centrino: ok i know what averatec says about the max ram 1 gig but on this forum someone with another averatec model that averatec claimed would only use 1 gig used 2 just fine i was curious if anyone has tried the same with this model and i also heard either here or in the other averatec forum that most averatec computers are under rated on there max memory

 

Pharoah,
How much memory do you have in it now? Do you have still have the original sticks of ram that came with it? If you do have either 256 or 512 stick then put the 1 gig stick in one slot and put either the 256 or 512 and if it doesn't crash then it should be fine to increase the memory to 2 gigs.
-andrew

 

:centrino: yes it has 512 now the 2 original 256's that came in it i was trying to find out if it would hold 1 gig chips before i orderd any but its starting to look like i might have to be the pioneer who tries it first lol

 

It wont make any difference if you goto 2 gigs anyway, it wont make it faster or more of anything. You would be just wasting your money.

 

He would be able to load programs a little faster. The more memory you have in any computer the better.
-Andrew

 

Right Click My Computer, Properties,advanced, Performance settings,Advanced, Virtual Memory, Change. Set your Maximum Size the same as your Initial Size. save "set" your changes then "ok" on the way out ( then restart the computer) Then you'll see the performace in your system, More then going to 2 gigs of ram. Windows itself wont know what do do with it anyway and windows will acually have no performance increase.

If you really want to know about windows and program performance and system performance. By doing the above you can get more out of everything within windows to get the same effect and at the same time save on the money for that memory.

In acuality windows will decrease in performance with more then windows can handle. 512mb is by far more in the performance area then 2 gigs of memory. Having more memory is true but you can have to much for the operating system to perform optimally. That is a known fact of how windows file system is written. Don't beleive me, do some research on the subject, from windows operating system, not the add on software.

 

There are some tweaks you can do in the registry to make windows use the ram over the paging file, and for notebooks, using the harddrive more when trying to go long on battery is counterproductive, especially when you don't get much.

 

:centrino: well this machine is going to get other upgrades to faster hard drive will be a big performance boost and going to put a g wireless card in it i have found a deal on some low latency memory i am most likely going to get a deal on 2 512's cl 2 lower latency responds faster and 1 gig will probably do what i want and with a 7200 rpm hard drive with 8 meg cache way better than stock 4200 rpm with 2 meg cache so it should kick butt

the memory im looking at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820220125

the hard drive im looking at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822146020

i am also looking at this drive will the 16 meg cache be of any real benefit http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822149015

 

:centrino: ok upgraded the 5110 put 2 512 mb corsair chips in it and went with a toshiba 5400 rpm hdd with a 16 mb cache was very surprised when i reloaded the new drive only took half the time it did before to run the recovery cd's and boots up in half the time as well also got a linksys wpc54g wireless card and its rocks to everything i do is so much faster ad-aware scans defrag's etc all my programs load so much quicker i am very satisfied with my hardware choices