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Need advice on upgrading my laptop.?
I have a HP Compaq presario and i don't know much about the actual internals of a computer although i am great with the software. I am trying to turn my laptop into a small gaming laptop (minecraft and a few lower graphics steam games like gmod, tf2, and CSS). I know this shitty laptop needs more ram and it couldn't hurt for it to have more memory but it also gets very hot very fast when i game. i know this is partly from bad air flow but i can't do much about that. i am on a low budget but don't give me the cheapest possible options either just stay away from ultra high end. things i can buy in stores like best buy and radio shack would be great because i don't like putting my credit card online. btw i know it's sad but this laptop currently barely runs minecraft for more than 20-30 minutes without getting laggy as hell. Thanks for your time i really appreciate it!
my laptop has 2gb of ram currently and 220gb HDD . it has 2 RAM slots and i will definitely open and clean it out. might buy some insulating paste to put on the heat sink and i will probably be upgrading to 4 gb of ram and cleaning out my laptop from useless crap and scanning for spyware and viruses.
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- ?Lv 48 years agoFavorite Answer
A few things, upgrading existing laptops is very difficult, in most instances the number of processors supported by laptop motherboards are very limited and fairly difficult to replace. Modern laptops don't really have replaceable graphics options (save in theory some socket F-1 and F-2 amd based laptops as the graphics card is contained in the cpu.) Some older ones had graphics cards with vga or dvi outputs that could plug into pcmcia card slots but I haven't seen these offered widely in a few years. You can also change the hard drives but this rarely offers an increase in gaming performance.
That leaves you limited basically to upgrading the Ram.
The good news is that is inexpensive and can offer significant upgrades as it is likely that your graphics solution in your laptop runs off of system ram. It will improve both the processing of the games data and the ability of the display adapter to handle the graphics data. First see how much you have. Then purchase new from either an online store or local store. Typically you can install it yourself by simply grounding yourself and opening a cover on the underside of the laptop. Desure you have the timing of the new ram set correctly in bios after installation.
As for it being a presario that line has been offered for over a decade and could mean anything specifications wise depending on when it was manufactured. Based on what you are saying about minecraft getting laggy after a short time, I would strongly suggest updating your drivers and ensuring there is no spyware or other background processes sapping your ram and processor cycles. I would also strongly suggest removing the back panel of your laptop or having a professional to it to completely clean dust and other airflow obstructions from the cooling solutions for your laptop as heat can also rapidly cause system instability.
- brummelLv 45 years ago
a million. The necessary scanner is fantastically precise in providing you with the right assistance. it is a hardware reduce. there would properly be a BIOS replace that would want to strengthen this optimal, yet I doubt it. 2. Laptops are commonly made with a gadget board it really is modular, which skill the video/pictures "engine" is element of the single large module; commonly floor fastened and by no skill upgradeable. 3. in case your pc is overheating, it skill the CPU is operating at very nearly one hundred% each of the time or there are cooling followers which at the prompt are not operating. Do 2 issues. hear for the sound of followers beginning and preventing for the duration of use. in case you do not hear them, get it fastened. also acquire and set up gadget Internals (Microsoft) procedure EXPLORER and do slightly troubleshooting to make certain what approaches are operating the CPU so puzzling. you've an outbreak or malware chewing up your CPU. you may want to purchase actually one of those lapdesk with a equipped in cooling fan. Antec and different organizations makes ones with cooling followers.