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    best upgrades for a Sony PCG-9P6L - Drive, memory for WOW?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by boe, Dec 8, 2008.

  1. boe

    boe Notebook Evangelist

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    A friend has a Sony PCG-9P6L laptop. I have not inspected the laptop in person yet but their goal is to play World of Warcraft on it. I don't know what memory, video or hard drive upgrades can be made on it. She thinks she has 1 GIG of Ram, a 2.4 GHz processor and a 40 GIG drive. She doens't know what type of video card it has.

    She'd like to upgrade the hard drive - I'm not sure if the Toshiba MK1233GAS will work or if there is a better drive she should consider.

    I don't know how many slots it has for memory for an upgrade.

    Lastly - anyone know what can be done about upgrading the video? typically most laptops don't let you do much but I thought I'd ask.

    Thanks
     
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  2. Tony

    Tony Nissan ftw!

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    The PCG-9P6L can only take a maximum of 1GB of RAM, so you already maxxed out there..

    Upgrading the hard drive will have little to no effects on gaming performance

    What matters the most is the graphics card, but sadly, you cannot change or upgrade the graphics card, it is a part of the motherboard.
     
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    Thanks for the info. Any guess on whether that hard drive will work in her PC - she needs more space. Also do you happen to know what type of card that laptop has in it?
     
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    I don't know
    it depends on if the laptop uses a SATA connector or IDE connector..
    Which I'm not sure...
    but yeah the laptop has a ATI RADEON IGP 345M
    which is a terrible card
    I don't think it can handle any 3D game at all..
     
    Tony, Dec 9, 2008
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