Help upgrading my Laptop

[f550maranello2]

ok ihave a compaq presario r3000

currently 1 gig of ram ddr 2700 333mhz (2 512 sticks)
60 gig 4200 rpm hd


what i was thinking is to put in a faster hard drive and maybe 2 gigs of ram...

iv been noticing that its getting a little slow when i open up files now.. would this solve that...

[Kowalski]

clean all unwanted files and programs and defrag the computer before you decide to spend $$$...

[IIDMOII]

clean all unwanted files and programs and defrag the computer before you decide to spend $$$...

can do that, or just back up what you really need and format your hd...

[Ovaltine Jenkins]

4200rpm? hahaha
yeah dude, get a 7200rpm hd, and 2 1gb sticks of ram, you'll be set. well, the cpu is probably slow too...

[f550maranello2]

actually its athlon 64 bit 3700 plus.. its not bad...


and the computer is freshly formatted and defraged also.. its not the problem..

[Ovaltine Jenkins]

socket 754?

[f550maranello2]

i dont know what taht means dave...

[f550maranello2]

wait i think it is...

[Goldtooth]

CPU-Z will tell you, google it

[Biggs]

if you can upgrade to pc3200 400mhz ram. 1gb is enough. the major bottleneck for any computer is the hardrive, in your case the hardrive is extremely slow. Upgrade to a 7,200 and you should feel the difference right away.

[f550maranello2]

yep its 754

its pc 2700 (166mhz) ram

[Biggs]

yep its 754

its pc 2700 (166mhz) ram

pc2700 = 333 not 166 but yeah just upgrade hardrive alone you'll see great improvement in speed.

[f550maranello2]

sweet guys...im gonna look up some harddrives and post them

[Ovaltine Jenkins]

is the HD pata or sata?

[f550maranello2]

its this one

http://www.shentech.com/1016273sn.html

[TurTLe]

aren't all laptop HD's PATA? I know that you can pick them up at micro-center, i've seen 5400rpm 60gb HD drives under 100$ but i dont know if there was 7200RPM's haven't shopped for parts at all lately.

[Ovaltine Jenkins]

sata now adays. $60 for a 5400rpm 60gb, is A LOT...
either way he's looknig at $130 for a 100gb 7200 rpm hd or $110 for a 120gb 5400rpm hd

[TurTLe]

Honestly 100GB might be overkill for him. Given i dont know him and his usage. He might be using the laptop as a desktop replacement or a 2nd computer. 100GB should be more then enough for a laptop. My vote goes for that $130 one.

Maybe look into getting 2 sticks of higher speed ram even tho your laptop supports PC2700, almost all DDR ram is backwards capitable, you might be able to squeeze a little more speed out of it.

[f550maranello2]

hows this one...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822146228

[Ovaltine Jenkins]

ahh, it's SATA, you need an IDE hd

[Ovaltine Jenkins]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822146047

[Biggs]

you're not going to need ram at this point. Right now the slowest part is the hardrive, It's actually always the slowest part of any computer. But this one is the bottom line of slowness. Just upgrade the hard drive you should be very happy.

[f550maranello2]

oh shit sorry i posted the wrong link... but yea thanks dave and biggs.. im gonna do that... and get that one i guess..