Slugging Away with an oldie

[collis]

I've got an old Compaq Presario V5002ea and I was hoping that someone else may have something silimar.

yes at 5 years old it's still going although showing it's age somewhat now, my plans for it are:
1) new IDE hard drive - 160GB or thereabouts.
2) increase the memory to 2GB
3) include a express card usb3.0 card (something like this: http://uk.startech.com/Cards-Adapte...ard-SuperSpeed-USB-3-Card-Adapter~ECUSB3S254F)

As I do mixing I am also considering a USB sound card to the laptop.

I've also been considering replacing the CPU with a faster one however i'm unsure what I can get, Currently it has an AMD sempron-m 3000+
What would any of you reccomend to do to my againg gracefuly laptop to keep it running sweet.

Here is a list of parts it's already had:
replacement battery
increase in memory to 1.5GB
replacement DVD-RW

Windows gets re-installed about once a year to keep that fresh


Cheers all

 

[GeX]

I'm not too clued up on older AMD laptop chips, but is the Sempron the 'budget' chip - so something like an Athlon 64 X2 TK-58 would be an upgrade? You can pick those up pretty cheap.

I wouldn't bother with an IDE hard drive, stick in an SSD. I wouldn't bother with a USB3 card.. why do you think you need one? Can't comment on the sound card as I don't know what mixing you do.

I (until recently) used a Compaq F500em, which is of similar age / spec -and that was 'fine' with 2GB and an SSD in there. I did run Ubuntu instead of Windows though.

 

[collis]

I'm not too clued up on older AMD laptop chips, but is the Sempron the 'budget' chip - so something like an Athlon 64 X2 TK-58 would be an upgrade? You can pick those up pretty cheap.

I wouldn't bother with an IDE hard drive, stick in an SSD. I wouldn't bother with a USB3 card.. why do you think you need one? Can't comment on the sound card as I don't know what mixing you do.

Can you get an IDE SSD for a reasonable ammount?
does the Athlon 64x2 utilise the same socket as the sempron in my machine?

The reason behind a USB3 card is due to only having 2 USB ports and personally wanting more, as USB3 devices are appearing more often now I may as well get a USB3 card now instead of having to upgrade at a later date thus saving money in the long run.

Collis

 

[GeX]

ahhh, sorry my bad. SATA has been around for so long that I thought at 5 years old that it'd have SATA and that IDE was just a bit of confusion.

I *think* the TK-58 is the same socket as the Sempron. I'm pretty sure my F500 used to have a Sempron, and then when I needed to replace some of the case plastics I bought a whole dead laptop for spares and it had a TK-58 in there.

What kind of budget do you have, it might work out best to just to replace it with a bottom of the range Lenovo / Dell.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

Does it not use the ancient 754 socket?
No Turion X2s on that socket as far as I am aware. Single core Lancaster Turion would be the best CPU upgrade. If it's supported...


How much will you be spending on this altogether? I struggle to see it justifying the cost.