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March 30th, 2012 05:00
Upgrading Dell 1737 - Processor and Memory
Hello
I have a Dell Studio 1737 laptop. It is seeming a little tired now so I would like to upgrade it. I know a little about computers but am far short of an expert.
My current processor is Intel core 2 duo P8400 2.26ghz and 4gb memory. I am running Windows 7 - 32bit
I am wanting to upgrade the processor and would like to know the maximum processor I can upgrade to on the current motherboard and also I read on another forum that on the 1737 laptops you can put in 8gb of memory. Is this true? also will this mean that my 32bit Windows 7 will stop working?
One of the main reasons I want to upgrade is because I play a football manager game but it does run very slowly sometimes which is very frustrating. My hdd is not full atall so it wont be that. So I guess a processor upgrade and a bit more memory is cheaper than a new laptop.
Hope someone can help
Jon
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March 30th, 2012 05:00
Rather than upgrade the processor, consider replacing the drive with a solid state drive. Processor upgrades are among the poorest price/value performance upgrades you can do. There is no point to putting more than 4G of RAM in any system running 32-bit Windows - you can't use more than 4G.
Since you can't upgrade the video chip - and it is likely as much of a bottleneck as the CPU - but you CAN carry forward an SSD to a newer system - that's the way to go.