Is my laptop worth trying to upgrade for games?
here are the specs: SPECS: Manufacturer- ASUSTeK Computer Model- ASUS Notebook K54L Series Processor- Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU B950 @ 2.10GHz RAM- 4GB (In all I have 8GB) System type- 64-bit Operating System Video card- Intel(R) HD Graphics Family Is my laptop worth trying to upgrade to run games smoothly or should I just wait until I'm able to get a new desktop (reccomend some that are good for gaming under $1,000)
Upgrading laptop ram to pc2 6400 (800 mhz) ram - is it worth it?
According to other DV6700 owners the system will currently have the memory step down to 667 MHZ. Here is a link discussing this http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/... Putting 4 GB of memory in this system will allow it to function in Dual Channel mode, but as you already know with a 32 bit OS only 3.2-3.4 GB will be available for use. One other thing to note is while your system is currently using a 2 GB and a 1 GB stick there is a good chance that it is using some sort of Dual Channel Mode. The mode I am referring to is called Flex Mode and essentially it will use 1 GB from the 2 GB stick and the other 1 GB stick and put it in Dual Channel Mode, while the remaining 1 GB of memory will be in Single Channel. You should be able to check in the BIOS or use a program like CPUZ to see if your system is in Dual Channel Mode. Obviously if you want all the memory to be addressed in Dual Channel you will need to have matching pairs. To read information about Flex Mode it can be read about here: http://www.intel.com/support/motherboard... Please note this last link is for desktops however a lot of notebooks are now using this technology. I hope this helps.
Upgrading my Laptop Specs?
I don't know much about graphic card models and the different Intel Core i5's and i7, but I want to upgrade my HP Pavilion g7-1077nr to where it will be able to run games like League of Legends (my favorite!) Here are my current specs. 2.13Ghz Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor 500GB Hard Drive (Pretty happy with it) 3 GB RAM (one stick is Kingston 2GB and the second stick is Samsung 1GB. I was thinking to get two 4GB Kingston sticks of RAM to replace them with). Intel(R) HD Graphics Card (I want to upgrade this, but I don't know if I need a different motherboard or what...) Now, I used Belarc Advisor to find out my Motherboard make, and it gave me this: Board: Hewlett-Packard 166A Serial Number: PBVEE111Z0J44Q I have no idea where to start, but if someone more experienced could help me, I'd really appreciate it. :)
Is it worth upgrading my Sony VAIO VPCF121GX?
Buy New Laptop...Buy Laptop with specs of i5 or i7cpu with Graphics card gt7xxx model.
Is it worth to upgrade SSD and RAM if my laptop’s processor is slow?
I recently shoved an SSD in this thing:The CPU in that thing is a five year old Pentium. It was a cheap computer when it was purchased years and years ago and time has not been kind to it. At all. The actual performance of the machine was atrocious. Unusable.I swapped the spinning drive for an SSD, handed it back to the user and he said it’s never been that fast.Why did I swap out the spinning drive? Because the system had reached a point where doing any form of I/O brought the system to its knees. Virus scan? Starts at 10:00 PM, still running at 8:00 AM. Windows Update? If it completed consider it a day long activity. Any I/O activity resulted in serious performance hits. It took the system between 7 and 15 minutes to reboot itself. Not pretty.It might have been fine to swap to another spinning drive but there was no reason to do so. SSDs of sufficient size are equivalent in price to what a cheap spinning drive would cost and you get all the benefits of an SSD.It resulted in an actual performance improvement. Same thing for my laptop. My travel laptop is a cheap little AMD A6 that I picked up mostly so I could have something to write Quora answers from while I was in bed recovering from surgery earlier this year. SSD did a lot to improve the #1 performance pain point which wasn’t CPU but was I/O.Will it always be worth it? No. It depends on what your actual performance problems are. But if you’re running out of RAM, that’s going to cause more paging which… causes disk I/O. If you’re bogged down with any kind of I/O, SSDs help with that. If your CPU is pegged at 100% for hours on end doing video transcoding… SSDs won’t help as much, sorry. But for most people, you’ll see a benefit.