Questions on upgrading my A205-s4616

ok so i am looking into upgrading my current laptop setup veses getting a newer laptop as i feel my laptop has good life left in it.

currently my setup is

toshiba a205-s4617
windows vista ultimate 64bit
intel centrino c2d t5500
2gb ram
160gb 5400 rpm

the parts im thinking of getting for my laptop are as follows:

intel t7600 2.33ghz c2d
4gb ram
500-1tb 7200rpm

my question is do you guys think this setup would be pretty fast? do you think it would be pretty up to date as far as performance goes? mainly i use my laptop for internet surfing, i do a bit of selling online which i have multiple pages and programs open, along with photo taking and transfering.

what do you think?

 

Well, I am not an expert, but I would suggest upgrading your ram and hard drive first and see how it goes. Your processor should be fine for your current usage.

 

You want fast get a SSD and an external drive for big files. More RAM would do the trick as well.

Returns on an investment is what you want to see. The setup you have up there for upgrades is not gonna give you the kind of returns you expect. The major problem is that any computer can only process information as fast as it gets transferred. A platter drive is not "fast" when compared to other technology (SSD). Ram is also nice because faster/more RAM equals larger amounts of data being stored for faster access and faster access times.

The MHZ/GHZ war is over! Your CPU is plenty fast. Do as I said above and breath new life into that machine and let it process data more efficiently and that machine will scream as is.

EDIT: Take the money you save buying a CPU and invest in Windows 7. Well worth the money!

 

sorry i didnt mean windows vista ultimate 64 bit , i meant windows 7 ultimate 64bit.

i have the windows 7 ultimate 64 bit, completely stripped down, all the tweaks done, performance tweaks done, also running a few performance utilities. i agree the windows 7 is really good much better than vista or xp, it runs really smooth

yesterday i picked up 2 2gb crucial sticks of ram off craigslist, for 40.00 which i thought was a good deal. my laptop reconizes 3.24gb which has made a huge difference in performance.

i may look into the ssd drive instead of the platter drives. the platter drives are huge nowdays and decently cheap i can get a 500gb 7200rpm samsung drive for 89.00 which is pretty good, the only downfall with ssd drives is that the prices vs the gb is still rather high.

and as far as the cpu i was interested in doing it for kicks really the cpu is only like 150.00 for the t7600 which is like twice as fast as the t5500. basicly going from 3.2ghz to 4.66ghz. which imo seems pretty good as far as performance upgrade to price range.

ive also looked into the t7600g which is overclockable which can run to 3.16ghz i donno

 

I am going to give an example here:

I had build myself a gamin rig a couple years ago. My specs were as follows:

AMD 5400+ BE 2.8Ghz
2 500GB really fast sata 2 drives
Good PC power and cooling PSU
4 Gigs of really good crucial ram (gamer type)

Brother had:

Intel E2180 2.0Ghz
320Gb Hp (whatever type they use) drive
2 Gb Ram

I wanted to play around with making a system that would run OS X. Intel is known to work better then the AMD counter parts with OS X.

I swapped my brother computers so I can have the Intel.

Though the AMD was much faster then the E2180 I was able to take my fast RAM and drives and make the E2180 out do the AMD.

He bought some extra RAM to up his RAM to to 4 Gigs.

On everything we did my system (2180) out did his! He thought in the swap that he was getting the deal of a lifetime and I was getting the shaft. Not the case!

Just because you have a dual core that does 1.6Ghz per core does not equal "3.2ghz". That is not the way to calculate.

Most applications are single threaded. Add to the fact that, as I said, data is only processed as fast as it can be transferred and one can easily see that from my examples above that CPU is only but a small piece of the equation.

CPU benchmarks mean very little in real world use! Just because a CPU shows a 30% increase in benchmark performance does not mean there is an automatic 30% increase in real world use.

Data transfer is the most important performance boost to any PC.

I know people whom have the best 1.6ghz i7 in the new laptop they have. And clock for clock my i5 smokes them. Start taking multi-threaded applications and my i5 gets smoked. In real world threaded apps are far in between and in most apps I will out do a i7.

The choice is your! But many people I know that have the i7 are disappointed with the purchase they made!