Re: Pentium M CPU Upgrade?


"Fixer" <the.hedonist@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 24 May 2006 07:50:43 GMT, "Fixer" <the.hedonist@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

many thanks it wasn't going to be a new upgrade as such as mine currently
has the 1.7 it was just that i was offred a 2.1 chip at a very good price
thats all

Ah, OK cool. What about a RAM / hard drive upgrade? Is that in the
same $ ballpark?

I'm already running 1 gig memory and a 60Gb hdd (5400) so I dont really
need to upgrade was as i said just an opportunity to get a faster CPU
really cheap thats all


a 7200 rpm drive makes a bit of difference, as its a 30% increase in platter
speed. You can load data faster from the drive, and the seek times go down
too. It adds up to a better performance upgrade than a new CPU would ( since
the CPU is basically waiting longer for the slower drive to feed it data).


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