Oh Noes Teh Laptop Needs An Upgrade!

MuadDib · 2003-06-16, 05:05 PM

Yes I am seriously considering veturing out into the dangerous world of upgrades for a laptop. Any one know of sites that can help me in this endevor?

Prowler · 2003-06-16, 07:07 PM

What kind of upgrades are we talking?

MuadDib · 2003-06-16, 09:34 PM

Ram mostly and maybe the vid card and CPU if I can raise the money

Prowler · 2003-06-16, 09:48 PM

ATI Mobility RADEON 9000 128MB DDR is one of the best cards out there for ya. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...91700%2C00.asp

powdahound · 2003-06-16, 10:18 PM

You'd have to call up your laptop manufacturer and ask them if it's possible and to what you can upgrade. Then come here with the list they give you (if any). You WON'T be upgrading it yourself, trust me.

And yes the 9000 mobile is nice, I'm on one right now and it runs planetside quite well.

Prowler · 2003-06-16, 10:25 PM

I always did like you powda.

NoSurrender · 2003-06-16, 10:51 PM

wait wait wait so ur not on that pimped out comp that u list in your sig??? and can u show ur stats like everyone else Powda
?

Prowler · 2003-06-16, 11:02 PM

No, I am why? lol

My bro has a Alienware Laptop and he has the mobile 9000 and he loves it.

NoSurrender · 2003-06-16, 11:49 PM

i would personally wait til the Mobility Radeon 9600pro and Prowler y do u and ur bro have such pimped out comps and i was talking to you i ment powdahound look at his sig

NoSurrender · 2003-06-16, 11:51 PM

in Maximum PC in like one benchmark it beat the Geforce FX5800ulta (they had the VPU on a AGP card) and i say thats pretty damn good for a portable that can conserver power and it can be upgraded

now wheres daleon with that damn bananna of his

powdahound · 2003-06-17, 12:04 AM

No I have two comps.

Desktop specs are in my sig... laptop sigs are:

P4 3.06ghz with HT
1024mb pc2100 DDR SDRAM
ATI Radeon 9000 128mb Vid Card
60gb 5400rpm HD

Random other stuff that I'm not 100% sure on since I didn't build it.

It's a sager 5670 (www.pctorque.com). Just got it a few days ago and I LOVE it.

I'll probably be posting pics when I get time...

And what makes you like me prowler?

NoSurrender · 2003-06-17, 12:10 AM

im srry im not into this whole like man love thing so lets stop that and powda u say u dont have money for broadband but u spent 2k on a laptop dsl is about 50 dollars a month X 12 months = $600 a fraction of $2000

powdahound · 2003-06-17, 09:27 AM

It's not that I don't have the $$ for broadband, it's that it's not in my area (cable is coming in a few weeks though!). I live in the sticks, and they just never put in the lines (not even for cable tv).

The laptop was something my college next year required too, so it wasn't just a random investment. Believe me, I'm still paying it off.

Prowler · 2003-06-17, 10:57 AM

Originally posted by powdahound
And what makes you like me prowler?

You have good taste with hardware.

Daleon · 2003-06-17, 01:21 PM

Bananna Bananna Bananna!

I'm scrouging a decent laptop from work soon. They upgrade every year and we auction off all the old laptops. Should be some P3 800's for about $50. I cleaned up last year, $100 for a few dual cpu DEC servers, and tons of high speed networking equipment, etc. Gonna put the laptop into my car and wire in a tight video system. Most of them have 64 meg radeons to so should be able to do some simply gaming, or atleast Mame in the ride. Hell yeah.