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The 5680 uses regular 184pin DDR DIMM's or 200pin SODIMM?

post #1 of 7
8/4/03 at 9:37pm
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Which RAM does the 5680 use (and the 5670 for that matter)??

The 184pin DDR DIMMs just like the regular desktops use, OR

200pin SODIMMs?????

I want to get cheap RAM and install that once I get my 5680 (or 5670) so that I can save and get the 7200 rpm HD instead.
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post #2 of 7
8/4/03 at 9:38pm
Will the 7200 rpm hd be that much better than the 5400 rpm hard drive? i just dont know if the cost is just enough for the margin
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post #3 of 7
8/4/03 at 9:44pm
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That's what I am still debating. I think that for my "usual" needs (Half-Life) the 5400rpm is enough. But I will be forced to use the 5680 to play DVDs with a projector attached so I might want the faster HD because playing a DVD from the DVD drive will create a HD buffer and that's where speed counts. I don't want the DVD to hang up or something like that. The 7200rpm HD is outrageously expensive. Damn robbers at Hitachi.

SAGER ROCKS!!!
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post #4 of 7
8/4/03 at 11:00pm
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BTT!!! I need an answer folks. COme one someone has a 5660 or a 5670 or knows what the 5680 will use....
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post #5 of 7
8/4/03 at 11:06pm
i believe that it will use 200 pin sodimm. that's what the 5660 used according to the tear down review adam did.
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post #6 of 7
8/4/03 at 11:52pm
All modern laptops use 200-pin SODIMMs. Older computers used 144-pin SODIMMs, all laptops use one of the two types.

The 7200 rpm hard drive will provide noticably faster disk I/O operations. How much will that improve your computing experience? Read any of the dozen threads on this forum debating it...

-phubar
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post #7 of 7
8/5/03 at 10:21am

7200 RPM

I recently upgraded my laptop to two 7200 RPM drives. VERY noticeable difference, but then I do a lot of disk-intensive work (yes, a SCSI setup on a workstation would be better but I can't log that around...

Admittedly, I believed I had a 5400 RPM drive (Toshiba specs for the Satellite 5205-S703) but to my surprise when I opened it up to do the replacement I found a 4200 RPM drive. Pretty steamed about that since the main reason I bought the Tosh in the first place was Tosh's web site saying 5205 had 5400 RPM.

Oh well. Anyway the 7200 RPM drive(s) were very much worth the price, my laptop is zipping along much faster. These drives also have 8 MB of cache (!!!).

Someone complained about the price. Read up on these new drives; not only do they use hardly any more power than 5400 RPM, dissipate about the same heat as 5400 RPM, give you 8 MB cache, make no more noise than a 5400 RPM, but Hitachi/IBM had to come up with a new head design to make it happen. In short, these things are engineering masterpieces. You get what you pay for; if it were easy or cheap others would be offering 7200 RPM laptop drives too.
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