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post #1 of 43
3/10/09 at 9:34pm
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That's right. Just got done putting the T7600 in my e1705. Trying to let the AS5 set right now, hope the temps are lower than the other CPU since it was using one of those cheap cpu pad things.

Next on the upgrade list is the biggest 7200RPM drive that will fit.

Then another 2Gb of RAM for a total of 4Gb!
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post #2 of 43
3/10/09 at 10:28pm
That baby will be maxed out,
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post #3 of 43
3/10/09 at 10:32pm
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Originally Posted by dave-p View Post
That baby will be maxed out,
Yes, nice upgrades.
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post #4 of 43
3/10/09 at 10:35pm
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I just don't really care for Seagate so I'm not sure if I want to get the 500GB 7200 RPM drive when it becomes available again or the Hitachi 320GB 7200RPM...
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post #5 of 43
3/11/09 at 2:14am
Seagate drives usually use the least amount of power from what I've seen. Until one craps out on me, I'm a Seagate man.

Your computer is officially better than mine now since I only have the T7400. Granted I have 4 GB RAM but meh, I've only benefited from that on a few occasions. Now if I can just convince Dave its time to upgrade and buy his old lappy off of him
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post #6 of 43
3/11/09 at 5:28pm
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What hard drive do you currently have in there now?
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post #7 of 43
3/11/09 at 9:12pm
Hehe, actually I still have the stock drive in this one. I'm too cheap to upgrade it quite yet but I've used the Seagates before.

Hitachi 80 GB 7200 RPM SATA (primary)
Western Digital 250 GB 5400 RPM PATA (secondary)

The Western Digital drives usually use the most power from what I've seen (I'm only comparing Seagate, WD, and Hitachi).
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post #8 of 43
3/12/09 at 12:57am
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I chose Hitachi over the other two. Have had MANY WD's go out on me, in fact. I had a Hitachi and a WD drive installed on my computer (desktop) and it got knocked off a ~4ft counter... the Hitachi survived, WD did not.

I also had a Seagate in my laptop, the i9300, and it died on me as well. Never had a problem with Hitachi though. In fact, I still have that same hitachi hard drive that fell ... it's about 8 years old now.
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post #9 of 43
3/13/09 at 12:37pm
Nice build Skillz. I am going to be doing roughly the same build, when the last of the parts arrive.
I guess I am lucky when it comes to hdds. I have never had one fail, yet. At the moment, I am running Seagate, WD, Fujitsu and Hitachi. They are all 7200 rpm and I do not notice any difference in noise or heat, but I have not done any real testing, just real-world usage.
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post #10 of 43
3/13/09 at 4:00pm
I just recently had a seagate 3.5 HD fail, but they promply replaced it with no hassels -via an easy online RMA process.

Been long time since I had a laptop drive fail.

But I do preferr Western Digital Drives
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post #11 of 43
3/14/09 at 4:54pm
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What would you guys upgrade first?

Go from a 5400RPM hard drive to a 7200RPM hard drive? Go from 2Gb RAM to 4Gb RAM?

I mostly play BF2 on the computer, which is what pushes the computer the hardest. Sometimes I use photoshop/light room to edit pictures I've taken, copy pictures from my memory cards to the computer, surf the web every day/all day.

I think Bf2 would benefit more from the faster hard drive speed (loading times) than it would the extra 2Gb of RAM. What do you think?
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post #12 of 43
3/14/09 at 5:24pm
Well, if you game more than edit photos, I would say the hdd. Photoshop/Lightroom will benefit from the increase in rotational speed, but would benefit more from the ram. with the price of ram, it should not be too expensive to do both in a short time frame.
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post #13 of 43
3/14/09 at 5:47pm
You're really maxing out my old laptop aren't ya Skillz lol.

I would upgrade the hard drive first. It used to have a 7200RPM in it and I really noticed the difference, until the HD died on me (the 7200RPM I bought for it was a Seagate).
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post #14 of 43
3/15/09 at 9:20pm
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Originally Posted by Maconi View Post
You're really maxing out my old laptop aren't ya Skillz lol.

I would upgrade the hard drive first. It used to have a 7200RPM in it and I really noticed the difference, until the HD died on me (the 7200RPM I bought for it was a Seagate).
Why yes, yes I am. Awesome laptop I might add too. I only wish I had the dell restore/operating system CDs. Not sure if you sent them in the packaging, but I can't seem to find them anywhere if you did.

I probably will end up getting the hdd first, I also need the extra space here soon.


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I went ahead and ordered the Hitachi 320GB 7200RPM drive.
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post #15 of 43
3/15/09 at 10:16pm
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Originally Posted by Skillz View Post
Why yes, yes I am. Awesome laptop I might add too. I only wish I had the dell restore/operating system CDs. Not sure if you sent them in the packaging, but I can't seem to find them anywhere if you did.

I probably will end up getting the hdd first, I also need the extra space here soon.


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I went ahead and ordered the Hitachi 320GB 7200RPM drive.
It didn't come with any CD's, the restore is saved on a partition on the hard drive, you'll have to image it on to the next hard drive ya get.

(You press CTRL+F11 during boot up to access I think)

EDIT: And this the HD you ended up getting?

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...94&prodlist=cj
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post #16 of 43
3/15/09 at 10:20pm
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Well that would explain why I couldn't find them.
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post #17 of 43
3/16/09 at 11:44am
Wow, 7200rpm drives are now very cheap as compared to what I paid for mine 2 years ago.
How many plates are there in a 320gb model ? Are they supposed to ne faster than my 100gb ?
Would anybody be kind enough to post some HDTune benchmark of this
Hitachi 320gb drive please ? I'd like to compare with mine.
Thanks.
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post #18 of 43
3/16/09 at 4:37pm
The 320 GB drive is definitely gonna be faster due to higher density (and equal RPM). The 200 GB 7200 RPM was the fastest drive on the market when it came out. I'm sure the trend continued for the 320 GB HD and the 500 GB HD. Is it worth the upgrade purely for speed? Not in my opinion. But if you need the extra capacity too then the choice is obvious.
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post #19 of 43
3/16/09 at 4:40pm
Thanks for the info.
Something I'm wondering about, why is it that most people here seem to go with HD instead of SSD ? Is it because they are still too expansive, or do they have shortcomings?
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post #20 of 43
3/16/09 at 5:16pm
I'm no expert since I don't really care too much about this stuff but I guess I'll give what I "know" and you can verify it with an internet search (I'm on dialup so I don't have time to search the net). Anyway, the first gen SSD's got cheaper (I'd call them affordable) but they were only better than HD's in regards to sequential reads and writes, not random reads and writes. There are newer SSD's that are more expensive that are better with random reads and writes (not sure how much better but I think as good as the typical 7200 RPM HD or better). Also, the battery life increase of SSD's has been minimal or non existant in most cases from what I've seen. This comes as no surprise to me though as the CPU, GPU, and LCD are the main culprits for power usage inside a PC.
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