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hi i have a toshiba notebook with a pentium 4 2.8 ghz 60 gb harddrive integrated wireless and 64 mb video card is there any way i can upgrade either the video card or processor or motherboard and its got 512 mb ram

 

The video card is a no unfortunately.

The processor, you can probrably upgrade to a higher clocked Pentium 4 but the cost won't be worth it.

The ram is easy to upgrade, just buy the right ram(Don't know your laptop model so I can't suggest. I'm guessing PC2700?).

 

sorry by upgrade i meant overclock
stupid mistake

 

It depends on which graphics card you have. If you have an ATi card, there is a utility called ATiTool that can be used to overclock you card, and the latest few driver sets from nVidia include overcolcing options.

Both are easy to use, since there are ways to make the computer auto-detect optimal settigns for your machine.

There isn't really any way to overclock integrated graphics, however, as they aren't "true" graphics cards and there's really not much to overclock.

As for processor and RAM, I'd reccomend against it. Overclocking RAM is dangerous territory, and usually unnecessary due to bus speed restrictions, and overclocking that P4HT furnace will likely damage your notebook.

 

Well, I would be hesitant about overclocking anything in a laptop.

With everything so close together, if one thing overheats, it could affect the rest of the components.

Also, remember that if anything goes bad, such as the video card, if you overclock it, then you are probably looking at replacing the motherboard - not exactly a cheap repair. So, in my opinion, it's not worth it.

Yes, I have overclocked a few of my notebooks' video cards, all went ok, but I did it at my own risk, fully willing to accept the fact that if I messed up, I was looking at a lengthy repair cost, since damage done by overclocking was not covered in the warranty.