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    Vgn-fw5 upgrade for photo editing

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Chrispope70, Mar 21, 2014.

  1. Chrispope70

    Chrispope70 Newbie

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    Hi guys,
    I am new to the forum this is my first post so be gentle and thanks in advance for any advice.
    I have a vaio VGN-FW5 a looking to refresh it a bit to help speed up my photo editing with Lightroom and Photoshop (which I currently don't use yet). I was thinking of upgrade the obvious RAM. It currently has 4gig fitted was thinking of maybe doubling it. When I bought the laptop I am sure I read somewhere on a forum than it was not worth going beyond 4gig because it could not be accessed by my laptop. Maybe something to do with a bus speed or something. I really can't remember why it was. It could of even been wrong info at the time. The processor that is fitted is a intel core2 duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53. I am sure that will mean more to you than me.
    Can anybody, would this upgrade work/ help and is it worth it?

    Many thanks in advance.
    Chris
     
    Chrispope70, Mar 21, 2014
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    next4nextel Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah your pc may support it technically, but only about 4GB will be usable and I'll guess and say it's about 5 years old. If I were you, I'd look into a newer model such as a Thinkpad with dedicated graphics or a macbook pro for your photo editing purposes. For the mean time I'd probably format it and install just the bare essential software so that it doesn't get bogged down and enable at least 15 GB of virtual memory on your hard drive and if it has SD card or you have a 8 GB flash drive somewhere, see if it speeds up with readyboost that's pretty much all you can do.

    Try that before you spend tons of money on a new PC or ram have a similar spec Thinkpad with 2GB ram and max useable was 4GB, my vaio specs are below even gets stuck with PS CS5 event thought it's 3 years old and pretty decent specs, all depends to what extent you'll edit photos on it. Good Luck
     
    next4nextel, Mar 23, 2014
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