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Keeping My I6000D up with the Jones's

post #1 of 10
7/25/06 at 5:23am
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Hey all,

Last year I bought a I6000D for college with fairly paltry specifications:

Pentium M 1.6
1GB 433 Dell Ram
80GB 5400 HDD
128MB x300

I have enjoyed the notebook thus far, but it really needs some new life put back into it. Currently I use it for note-taking, photoshop editing, video production and editing, and light gaming.

What I would like to know is what is the best "bang for my buck" options in the following categories:

Processor
Memory
Hard Drive

As far as the processor I was thinking about a 2.0 or 2.13 Pentium M, but I'm not sure which type is best (I.E. Conroe, Prescott, etc..)

I would like to update my ram to atleast 533 mhz, I don't believe the 6000D can take 667 but if it did I would go with that too. Also I'm looking for something stable but a strong performer too. Also can someone explain what latency ratings on ram means?

I would like to move to a larger hard drive and also switch to 7200 rpm.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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post #2 of 10
7/25/06 at 2:54pm
I'd do the memory and HD before the processor. Those are the main bottlenecks in the system. May want to expand to 2 GB of memory if your budget allows to allow a bit of future-proofing.

www.newegg.com
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post #3 of 10
7/25/06 at 4:19pm
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Originally Posted by XPSM140Guy
I'd do the memory and HD before the processor. Those are the main bottlenecks in the system. May want to expand to 2 GB of memory if your budget allows to allow a bit of future-proofing. www.newegg.com
The pentium M 730 is IMO is a very fast processor. I don't think you'll notice much of a difference between 1.6 and 2.0. The ram on the other hand is a great upgrade. I my self upgraded to 2gb and it made a big difference in everything I do. I can run 20 tabs in firefox, run photoshop CS2, and play WoW all at the same time. I was at one point thinking of upgrading my hard drive to a faster one, but instead decided to just save up and brew a new gaming rig...(parents stole the last one )
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post #4 of 10
7/25/06 at 5:08pm
You'll notice a HUGE difference from 1.6 to 2.0. On comparasion for installing XP with 2 systems similar in spec, the 2.0 processor would get close to 15 minute faster install then the 1.6 (other factors apply)
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post #5 of 10
8/2/06 at 1:48pm
couldn't you just pinmod the CPU and then buy some ram?
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post #6 of 10
8/2/06 at 11:08pm
The sonoma chipset supports 533 FSB, so 667 memory would be a complete waste.
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post #7 of 10
8/4/06 at 12:30am
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Originally Posted by dallasb
couldn't you just pinmod the CPU and then buy some ram?

that's what I thought. cheap and efficient.
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post #8 of 10
8/6/06 at 7:07am
I thought to pinmod, the cpu had to run on a 400 mhz fsb? Pretty sure the pM 730 is 533.
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post #9 of 10
8/6/06 at 1:37pm
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Originally Posted by Cr4zy4znm4n
I thought to pinmod, the cpu had to run on a 400 mhz fsb? Pretty sure the pM 730 is 533.

That's right and also, the model number of the CPU has to end in 5 (example, 745)
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post #10 of 10
8/7/06 at 3:47pm
Why am I the first to mention that this

"As far as the processor I was thinking about a 2.0 or 2.13 Pentium M, but I'm not sure which type is best (I.E. Conroe, Prescott, etc..)"

makes absolutely no sense?
Conroe and Prescott are no Pentium Ms

The same goes for
"Pentium M 1.6
1GB 433 Dell Ram"
As there is either 400 or 533 MHz ram.


I would try to pinmod the cpu if it is a 400FSB 1.6GHz P-M (which has a high probability to work without problems).
As you will void your warranty with the cpu-change you can at least try if a small peace of wire can safe you the money for the new cpu.
But for that to work you need 533 MHz Ram.
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