Hey guys, I'm thinking about giving my laptop a little speed boost. This would be the first time I've replaced anything in a laptop to make it go faster (I've replaced an LCD before) and it looks easy enough, but is it worth the money?
I'm considering going to 8Gb DDR3 1333MHZ from 4Gb. It's going to cost about £60 for the RAM, and I'd sell the old stuff on ebay, which should make it slightly more affordable. RAM is the joint lowest windows experience index score with my HDD at 5.9, so that's why I thought I'd start there.
My computer specs are:
i-7 740qm 1.73GHz quad core processor
Nvidia 335M GPU
RAM would certainly be the cheapest and easiest thing to upgrade, but is it worth it? I do quite a bit of gaming, mostly Wii games with Dolphin Emu.
Cheers
axw820 said:
Hey guys, I'm thinking about giving my laptop a little speed boost. This would be the first time I've replaced anything in a laptop to make it go faster (I've replaced an LCD before) and it looks easy enough, but is it worth the money?
I'm considering going to 8Gb DDR3 1333MHZ from 4Gb. It's going to cost about £60 for the RAM, and I'd sell the old stuff on ebay, which should make it slightly more affordable. RAM is the joint lowest windows experience index score with my HDD at 5.9, so that's why I thought I'd start there.
My computer specs are:
i-7 740qm 1.73GHz quad core processor
Nvidia 335M GPU
RAM would certainly be the cheapest and easiest thing to upgrade, but is it worth it? I do quite a bit of gaming, mostly Wii games with Dolphin Emu.
Cheers
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4GB would seem like enough, but yea it should provide a performance boost. If you can, you should go with 1600Mhz instead of 1333Mhz. Btw what kind of laptop do you have? Also the more DIMMS, the more better.
8GB would provide a good performance boost.
4GB is optimal, and 8GB for anything in general is actually best. 1600Mhz would even be better.
Sorry for the two posts. I've been awake for the past 24hrs.
Also are you running your operating system in 64bit or 32bit? I figured I'd ask since your specs for a laptop seem fine regarding performance.
It's a Dell XPS L501x. 1600MHz also looks afforable, I might go for that. As I say I am new to this, is it definitely possible to put 1600 in to replace 1333? All I know about my current RAM is that it is 2x2Gb 1333MHz ddr3 204pin. Is it as simple as taking the laptop apart, out with the old, in with the new, boot it up? That's what the manual is suggesting.
Oh, and it's 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium
axw820 said:
It's a Dell XPS L501x. 1600MHz also looks afforable, I might go for that. As I say I am new to this, is it definitely possible to put 1600 in to replace 1333? All I know about my current RAM is that it is 2x2Gb 1333MHz ddr3 204pin. Is it as simple as taking the laptop apart, out with the old, in with the new, boot it up? That's what the manual is suggesting.
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I'll look into your laptop to see if it is compatible, which it should be. Anyhow for my dad's XPS M1730, there is a little door on the bottom of it that needs to be unscrewed so you can replace the RAM. It is easy as pie, just make sure you install it correctly and check if your motherboard supports 8GB.
Okay I've checked out your laptop. It supports up to 8GB 1333Mhz so 1600Mhz is out of the question. So upgrade to 8GB 1333Mhz.
Fantastic, thank you. How much of a performance boost do you think it'll give? I'm eventually planning to upgrade to a faster hard drive too.
axw820 said:
Fantastic, thank you. How much of a performance boost do you think it'll give? I'm eventually planning to upgrade to a faster hard drive too.
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It will be notable.
Here is how RAM works with laptops.
2GB is Fair
4GB is Solid
8GB would be considered best. This includes desktops that are for gaming.
So if you ever build a gaming desktop, 8GB would be more than enough for enthusiasts gamers.
Your laptop comes with a 7200RPM Hard drive which is good as it is. I do not know if it supports a 10,000RPM hard drive. If anything you should check out solid state drives also known as SSD's. They are expensive, but they provide gorgeous performance. Just make sure your laptop supports it.
Well thats laptop is even speedier than my desktop from 2007 AMD 4400(something).
Using mostly a EeePC 1005HA (Win7 starter) with 2GB of RAM.
I found that the best way to use that excess RAM was by turning of the Windows Paging file/Swap file off. Windows is forced to use the RAM the computer got.
Which is giving a terrific speed boost. Have runned the 1005HA without Swap file since December 2009.
Also make sure to have updated BIOS firmware, my Desktop was sluggish and slow after installing Win7 Home. It turned out to be the BIOS needed a firmware that worked with Win7.
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Somebody have experience to replace the Toshiba MK4009GAL 1.8" ATA100, with 64 SDD.
Any hardware compatibility problems, is it the same connection??
Hello TheoMobile,
You have to give us more details regarding the SSD you're mentionning.
By the way, I recommend the following threads regarding Storage upgrades:
Upgrading the HDD
and
5 mm 1.8" hard drive the max?
We have covering many topics. Sure you can have a better picture by reading those.
Hi,
I have the Samsung mccoe64gempp-01a SSD with 64GB.
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/productInfo.do?fmly_id=161&partnum=MCCOE64GEMPP
It has 5mm and fits like the original HD.
Performance is a little bit better, but not the money worth.
Indeed, soooo expensive!
Performances : I expect the 1GB memory capacity and low bandwith are still the main limitation drivers with your improved setup (not mentionning the CPU raw horsepower...).
Comments on battery life with the ssd drive? Better? the same?
It's think it's better, but haven't tried it that much.
I want to sell a computer I dont use anymore which isn't too too old, and still very usable. What I'd like to know is what you think I should sell this thing for.
Specs:
Athlon 64 3500 2.2ghz
1gb RAM
ATI X800XL 256mb gfx card
2 80gb hard drives
Some LG DVD burning drive with lightscribe or whatever.
Fairly uninteresting case with a 400w power supply made by antec (not that it really matters)
Windows XP OR Windows vista whichever the person wants.
and finally, a 17 inch LG LCD monitor (Model is L1710S to be exact)
So what would you sell this for?
probably $200-250
Yeah around US$200 - 280
it would depend on how you sell it. i buy and sell computers a lot; i am friends with the owner of a local computer store he lets me put used computers up at his store. I have found that i make the most off of them when i do this maybe you could check out doing that.
I pulled the trigger on a HP dv7t laptop. Here is what I got on it...
17" screen
Intel Core I7-2720qm processor
8 gig ddr3 ram
750 gig hard drive
ATI Radeon 6570 graphics card
Bluetooth
BLU-RAY write/read
DL-DVD write/read
I and getting this to mostly hook up to a 50" plasma and have discrete 7.1 surround sound through a fairly hi-end home theater. Ill also be converting avi videos to dvd and bluray format so I can burn dvd and bluray......home videos of course used a online coupon and got it for 1163 tax and shipping included.
you did get an excellent deal on an hp!!!
750gb????? 2tb hdd is only £60 about $100
nice system though
hope you enjoy it!!
I allready have a 2tb nas drive for the house so I'm not so concerned about hd space. Thanks though!
stangdriverdoug said:
I pulled the trigger on a HP dv7t laptop. Here is what I got on it...
17" screen
Intel Core I7-2720qm processor
8 gig ddr3 ram
750 gig hard drive
ATI Radeon 6570 graphics card
Bluetooth
BLU-RAY write/read
DL-DVD write/read
I and getting this to mostly hook up to a 50" plasma and have discrete 7.1 surround sound through a fairly hi-end home theater. Ill also be converting avi videos to dvd and bluray format so I can burn dvd and bluray......home videos of course used a online coupon and got it for 1163 tax and shipping included.
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Yea that was a great deal
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Wait... I'd find it hard to find a PC with an i7 for $1200 Let alone a 17" laptop.
Man.. Thats amazing specs... Better than my pc's And for only $1200 which is like how many £
Now you got me lookin
I have been keeping my eye on the prices for a while and it was too low to resist. I just hope the processor is powerful enough for video encoding.
sweet indeed , how much was the coup worth ?
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sweet indeed , how much was the coup worth ?
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$500 there is only a limited amount.
Pretty nice little laptop. What does the HT speed run at on that i7?
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Pretty nice little laptop. What does the HT speed run at on that i7?
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What do you mean by ht speed?
stangdriverdoug said:
What do you mean by ht speed?
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Turbo Boost. i7 architecture run at 2 stock speeds, one for power saving, and one for high performance. This also goes along the performance of the HT capabilities inside the chip.
Oh ok.....normal speed is 2.2 and turbo boost is 3.3
Seriously you got a nice processor there How much it cost you ?
So I have a SSD-Regular HDD setup for my home PC. My primary (local disk) is a 30GB SSD drive. I install all programs on my regular HDD, and I left the Windows 7 install on the 30gb SSD. Problem is, even though I don't save ANYTHING to the SSD it slowly fills up... and today it hit 0 bytes free. After some disk cleanup I was able to free up a gig deleting temp files etc... but it's still a bummer.
My question to anyone with a similar setup or some SSD know-how! What are the best steps to prevent these secret ninja files from piling up on my SSD? I'm thinking about reformatting and installing W7 on the SSD again, since everything is just saved on the other drive..
Plz/thankyou
Your SSD is severely hampered by being so full. Not only will it run slow but you are reducing it's life span as there is no free space for wear-levelling to take place.
A fresh install would be the way to go at this point, remembering that you really want to Secure Erase the drive before re-installing. The BETTER option is to buy an SSD that isn't smaller than a wart on a gnats ****. I would say 60GB is the minimum that you need for your primary drive. 120GB if you can afford it.
^What he said. Windows 7 AFAIK collects all of the DLLs in a central folder which is one of the reasons for the install to just get bigger and bigger. I'm on 36 GB of a slightly heavier used 50 GB partition than yours, but still almost no installs to the C: partition and stuff like that.
I am on a normal HD though. So yea, a bigger SSD is the easiest choice.
Thanks for the insight guys. I will be sure to invest in a larger drive... I was hoping 30GB was gonna be good enough. Guess not :/ Curse you windows
If i were buying right now i would get an Intel 80GB X-25M. As much as i love my OCZ Vertex i think they suck as a company with horrible customer support and an RMA process that would try the patience of a saint.
Intel also have the lowest returns rate for SSD of any company by a large margin. Fast, cheap and reliable. Intel ftw.
Oof, thanks for the heads up... I'm rocking a kingston (can you tell I'm a cheapass?) I guess I should actually pay for quality. :S And I was juuuuust looking at OCZ 60GB's
i ordered this laptop http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215197 and well i wanna upgrade it to 8 gigs (2 2GB) it says it has DDR3 1066 can it take this kind?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231295
or should i just get this kind?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231294
i like G.skill and i have allways used there ram and never had a problem with them
Go with the cheaper kit. It won't make any noticeable difference.
Like stated already, go with the cheapest.
thanks for the help!