Best way to upgrade laptop

Nick1881 · 29 Jun 2008 at 10:36

My Dad had a Toshiba Equium A100-147, it has a T2050 1.6Ghz Core Duo CPU and 2Gb of ram, its running XP Media Centre. Whats the best way to make it faster? Would a Vista install run any quicker? Or could we upgrade the CPU to a faster one? Does anyone know what CPU's it will take and how much difference it will make?

CPU-Z grab showing the CPU and Mobo

Thanks

smyth · 29 Jun 2008 at 12:09

you could turn off the Intel cpu throttling (not sure what it's called, the AMD one is cool n quiet) in the bios so it runs at full speed all the time.

Also a fresh install of the OS always makes a PC go faster

Scythe · 29 Jun 2008 at 13:34

smyth said:
you could turn off the Intel cpu throttling (not sure what it's called, the AMD one is cool n quiet) in the bios so it runs at full speed all the time.

Also a fresh install of the OS always makes a PC go faster

You could, but battery life would be affected iirc.

pingwing · 29 Jun 2008 at 15:31

Have a look at the laptop makers website and see if they can tell you about a cpu upgrade (but a guess is no). I dont think you can fit any more ram in it either (as that chipset can only do single sided memory so its max is 2gig). Try a clean xp install (aka no oem software) as that should be a pretty fast laptop...