Laptop memory heads-up

[Rastalovich]

Just looking for some memory for my nephew`s dell laptop and found that 1x1G of ddr2 = £13.. it`s Corsair Value 5300.. so ??

People.. there is NO excuse for not upgrading that laptop memory right now!

I was expecting alot more tbh.

 

[ali_james]

Yeah I'm shocked by how cheap it is now. I got a 2gb module for my Eee for £20 delivered last week. Unspeakable overkill

With a O/C to 900mhz I reckon it could run XP very comfortably.

 

[!TIMMY!]

I popped in 2 x 1gb 5300 Corsair Value into my old laptop, makes such a difference for so little money. Next is the HD want a IDE 7200rpm bad boy. Going to have to get it from the US as I can't find one anywhere is stock in the UK.

Talking about laptop upgrades, is it easy to upgrade the CPU???

 

[ali_james]

Talking about laptop upgrades, is it easy to upgrade the CPU???

Depends, I reckon it'd be limited by the cooling prowess of the laptop case, I mean, I assume its not going to be a great plan to throw a fast dual core into a case with tiny sinks and a baby fan. Aside from that I have no idea how easy it is to perform that kind of surgery.

 

[!TIMMY!]

I very much doubt that my laptop can run a dual core, but was looking into a faster single core. If i did do it i would slap some AS5 and maybe a new fan to help things.

Sry for the hijack :S

 

[Rastalovich]

I popped in 2 x 1gb 5300 Corsair Value into my old laptop, makes such a difference for so little money. Next is the HD want a IDE 7200rpm bad boy. Going to have to get it from the US as I can't find one anywhere is stock in the UK.

Talking about laptop upgrades, is it easy to upgrade the CPU???

Only thing to watch with harddrives really is power consumption and indirectly how hot it gets. 5400 to 7200 sounds nice, but u will feel the extra heat and as a result use more power.

 

[!TIMMY!]

Ye, I bought a better battery so it can handle the extra power, I may have to get one of those laptop cooler efforts tho

 

[Pseudonym]

Just checked my memory and it's £15 for 1gb delivered.

Worth a buy i guess. shame the mobo doesn't support 2gb.

 

[xiaohuiye]

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