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    Sager 5797 Upgrade Questions

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by tucchase, Apr 29, 2009.

  1. tucchase

    tucchase Notebook Guru

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    I am planning to get a new 5797 soon, but I have a couple questions about upgradeability. I do a little drafting on TurboCad, and I play WoW, and watch DVDs, but I want something I can keep using for the next 3 to 5 years at least. I have managed to use a Toshiba A105-S4364 with a T5500 and nvidia GeForce Go 7300 for the last 2 years, but the latest patch on WoW has overwhelmed my little GPU.

    1. If I go with the minimum P8600 C2D 2.40 Ghz, will I be able to upgrade later to a Quad? Would this be a minor change? or would it require more work?

    2. How much difference will it make if if I go ahead and get the Q9000 @2.00 Ghz versus the P9600 @2.66 Ghz? Only $5 difference in upgrades.
     
    tucchase, Apr 29, 2009
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  2. Kevin

    Kevin Egregious

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    1. Yes. Yes. No.

    2. I'd go for the Q9000 now. It spanks the P9600 in multithreaded apps, and won't slow you down while gaming.
     
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  3. tucchase

    tucchase Notebook Guru

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    COOL! Thanx! Brings new ?s to mind. Will XP run on Quads? Also, when Win 7 comes out, will XP be directly upgradeable to Win 7? I've heard a lot of bad things about Vista and I haven't seen much to convince me I need to use it before Win 7 is released. I understand the Win 7 Beta versions are no longer free (or available?)
     
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  4. brunoroc

    brunoroc Notebook Deity

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    yeah kevin_jack said everything man
     
    brunoroc, Apr 29, 2009
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  5. JGZinv

    JGZinv Notebook Consultant

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    Win 7 is available to a degree, but you'd end up buying something and installing it anyway at the end of the Win 7 beta period.

    XP runs fine, I'd suggest for sake of easy of use you have it preinstalled. You may have troubles with games that are specific to DirectX 10 only, but if you get that urge then you can move to Win 7 or Vista after the fact and all of that will work then.

    XP upgrade direct to Win 7 is still up in the air, far as I know.
     
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  6. tucchase

    tucchase Notebook Guru

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    So I should probably bite the bullet and just go ahead with Vista 64 bit and get a smoother transition to Win 7? MS should have most of the bugs worked out by now, right? iitl
     
    tucchase, Apr 30, 2009
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  7. JGZinv

    JGZinv Notebook Consultant

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    If you don't have a bone to pick with Vista, you can make use of the extra RAM 64 bit allows, and you've got the money to spend... sure.
     
    JGZinv, Apr 30, 2009
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