Xpanda Posted February 10, 2016 Member ID: 24022 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 11 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 58 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 25 Achievement Points: 449 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/30/16 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 11, 2018 Posted February 10, 2016 So, I have an old samsung Q310 (5 years old) and was gonna save up and just get a battlestation but I hear sticking an SSD inside and having a clean install of windows will breathe new life into it?Any info on where I should start? I'm running windows Vista on an Intel Core Duo 2 P8400 @2.27ghz 4gb ram Samsung HM320JI Hard Drive NVidia GeForce 9200M GS
loaderXI Posted February 10, 2016 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 73 Topic Count: 397 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6443 Content Per Day: 1.11 Reputation: 6585 Achievement Points: 54697 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 32 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 01:37 AM Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Posted February 10, 2016 That one is tickled out im afraid....With only 4gigs and Win Vista your barely good for browsing the web In fact Google will no longer update or support Xp or Vista and many websites already dont Anything Quad core with 8 gigs and Win 7 for now will keep you running along Time to break open the coin jar or fill it up real fast Xpanda, KaptCrunch and Mule 3 Awards
diggydoc42 Posted February 16, 2016 Member ID: 23985 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 9 Topic Count: 12 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 189 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 103 Achievement Points: 1223 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/22/16 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 8, 2022 Posted February 16, 2016 More RAM..take out the optical drive and put in an ssd(that way you won't lose storage)...maybe even a new OS...and it should be good for general use for another couple of years...just my 2 cents on it... Awards
KaptCrunch Posted February 16, 2016 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 48 Topic Count: 368 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5256 Content Per Day: 0.91 Reputation: 4528 Achievement Points: 42197 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 72 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Online Last Seen: 2 minutes ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Posted February 16, 2016 when replace with new hardware your getting the best speed and power savings if your only doing Email not worth the cash to update Awards
Xpanda Posted February 17, 2016 Member ID: 24022 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 11 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 58 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 25 Achievement Points: 449 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/30/16 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 11, 2018 Author Posted February 17, 2016 yea, with the amount of money I'll spend. Think i might as well just get a new rig off of ebuyer
LaRSin Posted February 17, 2016 Member ID: 45 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 69 Topic Count: 982 Topics Per Day: 0.17 Content Count: 9504 Content Per Day: 1.64 Reputation: 3766 Achievement Points: 68540 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 4 hours ago Birthday: 02/25/1951 Device: Windows Posted February 17, 2016 you know it's fast enough for general surfing and stuff like that , An ssd drive and an clean install would do wonders for it , and depending if you have ddr 2 or 3 , if it's ddr 3 you could update the ram, I really hate vista , you could try and put Win 7 on it , If there's drivers for it. Awards
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