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hi there guys, today i managed to get a Dell inspiron 1300 1.6ghz with 256ram an 40gb hd. I paid £6 for it, yes six quid. Won it in a raffle. Now I was wondering what Cpu I could put in this if I can swap them? Defo memory upgrade on the way, can I do anything with the GFX?? Intergrated i know, is there any pci slots or anything? Cheers for any info or any links.
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Its a pentium-M CPU so your almost at the end of the line as it is (if its a celeron-M then ugh), I _think_ 2gig was the highest easy to get hold of and your talking ~£200 for not a huge speed boost over whats in there now... and ~£500 for a 2.4gig version if you can find anywhere still selling them.
I believe this is one of the laptops that limit the CPU FSB to 400 instead of the correct operating frequency of 533MHz so you may have problems with upgrading the CPU anyhow...
The RAM is probably 200-Pin DDR2-533 SODIMM so throwing another 256Mb in there (assuming its only using one of the slots - this laptop "usually" has 2 ram slots but specs vary) should be cheap and a decent performance boost.
GPU your out of luck, no upgrade possible short of using the up and coming external thing that was posted on these forums recently... ( http://www.thatgameblog.com/2007/01/07/first-external-video-card-unveiled/ ) hope that link isn't in breach of any rules here.
The HDD is dog slow on this laptop too - but not sure if a replacement would run any faster as it might be a bus limitation.
One thing it does have going for it is the nice widescreen display.
I believe this is one of the laptops that limit the CPU FSB to 400 instead of the correct operating frequency of 533MHz so you may have problems with upgrading the CPU anyhow...
The RAM is probably 200-Pin DDR2-533 SODIMM so throwing another 256Mb in there (assuming its only using one of the slots - this laptop "usually" has 2 ram slots but specs vary) should be cheap and a decent performance boost.
GPU your out of luck, no upgrade possible short of using the up and coming external thing that was posted on these forums recently... ( http://www.thatgameblog.com/2007/01/07/first-external-video-card-unveiled/ ) hope that link isn't in breach of any rules here.
The HDD is dog slow on this laptop too - but not sure if a replacement would run any faster as it might be a bus limitation.
One thing it does have going for it is the nice widescreen display.
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