You can only upgrade the hard drive and memory on most laptops. Only a few allow you to upgrade the CPU as the system is designed around the thermal output.
Can you be more specific? Are you looking for a better CPU for your next gaming computer? Are you looking for processing power for some other application, such as rendering? Are you just looking for a temporary service so you can do something like render a video for a project?
lol, i'm doing those pay per download and install offers while i play mmo's, it uses alot of cpu processing power, im not advertisiing i just have this poor 300 dollar laptop and was looking for the best way to get more cpu power or whatever i need for it. such as an external cpu or whatever's cheapest, as you can see by the 300 dollar laptop im very poor. but thx for the help so far. i could probly come up with $200 or $300 for the cpu or whatever, and i'd like most of the cpu load on the external somehow in case the laptop has to go portable
Don't do the pay per download ways to play games. Instead use the $200-$300 to play the games. Those pay per download type deals are system hogs and designed to be a con. They may also contain malware.
Due to the amount of data passing through a CPU and the sensitivity of time for it to interact with other system components, it isn't possible to make a CPU external to the system.
Your best option is to buy another computer if you need processing power. However, it sounds like you are installing programs. That doesn't require significant processing power. The in-game "lag" I'm guessing you are seeing is from your hard drive being worked to its limit. A sold-state drive would be able to handle the load of what it sounds like you are doing. An external (USB) hard drive might be able to alleviate some of the symptoms.
Originally posted by syntax42 Due to the amount of data passing through a CPU and the sensitivity of time for it to interact with other system components, it isn't possible to make a CPU external to the system. Your best option is to buy another computer if you need processing power. However, it sounds like you are installing programs. That doesn't require significant processing power. The in-game "lag" I'm guessing you are seeing is from your hard drive being worked to its limit. A sold-state drive would be able to handle the load of what it sounds like you are doing. An external (USB) hard drive might be able to alleviate some of the symptoms.
It is technically possible, distributed computing (XGrid, Folding@Home, etc) can do it even over the internet. That being said, it only really works with tasks designed for specifically for distributed computing - and MMOs are definitely not one of them because of all the reasons you say.
That being said, I agree with your second paragraph.
Just an example what can happens if you just replace the HD with an SSD. An old Dell D430 notebook took up to 5 min (averaged around 3 min) to boot Win 7. After replacing its HD with an SSD it took only 45 sec to 1 min to boot and starting programms was more than three time faster.
What you can do also is increasing the notebook's RAM. First refer to your computers manual which type of RAM you can install and how big they could maximal be (ex: 4 GB RAM). Then check how much RAM you have and in which configuration (quite often it is two modules with 512 MB RAM resulting in 1 GB). It could be that you have to replace the existing modules completely.
I starting to think he's confused processing power with storage. I think he's really looking for an external hard drive.
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Originally posted by Scagweed22 would the solid state drive increase the overall speed of the pc? like by how much? and what RAM is best?
RAM doesn't make much of a difference in overall performance or gaming performance. It is generally so fast that the bottom-tier for your PC is close enough to the top-tier RAM that you won't get a noticeable performance difference for all but the most memory-intensive tasks. If you have 4GB of RAM, you have enough for most purposes. Upgrading to 8GB if your system supports it is nice to have.
A SSD has very fast access speeds and very fast read/write speeds when compared to a mechanical hard drive. SSDs are in the realm of about 5x faster on read/write speeds, which mostly affects large file copying. SSDs are in the realm of 10x to 100x faster for seek times which mostly affects load times for programs and the OS.
If you're trying to load something in the game, or need to read/write to the page file, while installing a program, a SSD will handle those tasks with ease while a mechanical drive will be a bottleneck.
Syntax is right, the only thing I will add is that while the speed of RAM doesn't matter so much, the amount very much does. It's pretty black and white: either you have enough and it all runs fine (and adding more won't really do anything for you), or you don't and it runs like crap and adding more will be all the difference in the world.
Originally posted by Scagweed22 like how many more fps can i get gaming if i get 10 fps with a mechanical hard drive but install a solid state drive?
Normally 0 fps more. SSD will only help when the game is waiting for something to load from hard drive. Normally that means the SSD will cause the game to start and load new areas more than twice as fast, but once the game has loaded the FPS is same.
Just what are you downloading and installing while playing the games? If you're handling some really big files and programs (like installing a new game that's multiple gigabytes), then likely SSD would help with that a lot thanks to its superior speed. On the other hand if you're installing new toolbar that promises to protect your searches, speed up your PC, and bombard you with advertisements those are usually so small files that hard disk speed won't be an issue unless you're installing thousands of them.
Computers are always limited by the speed of their slowest part. Based on your laptop's price I'd say all your parts are complete crap, and you'd be much better off just saving money to buy a new laptop. It's not worth trying to upgrade a single piece if all the other pieces are still crap even after the upgrade.
The major components in any gaming computer are the CPU, GPU, RAM, and drive (just important to know if it is SSD or mechanical). The PSU is important for desktops, but doesn't usually affect performance.
Run dxdiag. Search for instructions on the internet if you don't know how. Post the CPU, GPU, and RAM information.
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Yeah we need more details..
You could possibly overclock the processor but laptops dont have great cooling system so it might not be a good idea.
Just post up mroe details why do you need more CPU power?
Due to the amount of data passing through a CPU and the sensitivity of time for it to interact with other system components, it isn't possible to make a CPU external to the system.
Your best option is to buy another computer if you need processing power. However, it sounds like you are installing programs. That doesn't require significant processing power. The in-game "lag" I'm guessing you are seeing is from your hard drive being worked to its limit. A sold-state drive would be able to handle the load of what it sounds like you are doing. An external (USB) hard drive might be able to alleviate some of the symptoms.
It is technically possible, distributed computing (XGrid, Folding@Home, etc) can do it even over the internet. That being said, it only really works with tasks designed for specifically for distributed computing - and MMOs are definitely not one of them because of all the reasons you say.
That being said, I agree with your second paragraph.
Just an example what can happens if you just replace the HD with an SSD.
An old Dell D430 notebook took up to 5 min (averaged around 3 min) to boot Win 7. After replacing its HD with an SSD it took only 45 sec to 1 min to boot and starting programms was more than three time faster.
What you can do also is increasing the notebook's RAM. First refer to your computers manual which type of RAM you can install and how big they could maximal be (ex: 4 GB RAM). Then check how much RAM you have and in which configuration (quite often it is two modules with 512 MB RAM resulting in 1 GB). It could be that you have to replace the existing modules completely.
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RAM doesn't make much of a difference in overall performance or gaming performance. It is generally so fast that the bottom-tier for your PC is close enough to the top-tier RAM that you won't get a noticeable performance difference for all but the most memory-intensive tasks. If you have 4GB of RAM, you have enough for most purposes. Upgrading to 8GB if your system supports it is nice to have.
A SSD has very fast access speeds and very fast read/write speeds when compared to a mechanical hard drive. SSDs are in the realm of about 5x faster on read/write speeds, which mostly affects large file copying. SSDs are in the realm of 10x to 100x faster for seek times which mostly affects load times for programs and the OS.
If you're trying to load something in the game, or need to read/write to the page file, while installing a program, a SSD will handle those tasks with ease while a mechanical drive will be a bottleneck.
Syntax is right, the only thing I will add is that while the speed of RAM doesn't matter so much, the amount very much does. It's pretty black and white: either you have enough and it all runs fine (and adding more won't really do anything for you), or you don't and it runs like crap and adding more will be all the difference in the world.
None. Hard drives don't provide FPS. They only really help with load times and texture pops.
Normally 0 fps more. SSD will only help when the game is waiting for something to load from hard drive. Normally that means the SSD will cause the game to start and load new areas more than twice as fast, but once the game has loaded the FPS is same.
Just what are you downloading and installing while playing the games? If you're handling some really big files and programs (like installing a new game that's multiple gigabytes), then likely SSD would help with that a lot thanks to its superior speed. On the other hand if you're installing new toolbar that promises to protect your searches, speed up your PC, and bombard you with advertisements those are usually so small files that hard disk speed won't be an issue unless you're installing thousands of them.
Computers are always limited by the speed of their slowest part. Based on your laptop's price I'd say all your parts are complete crap, and you'd be much better off just saving money to buy a new laptop. It's not worth trying to upgrade a single piece if all the other pieces are still crap even after the upgrade.
The major components in any gaming computer are the CPU, GPU, RAM, and drive (just important to know if it is SSD or mechanical). The PSU is important for desktops, but doesn't usually affect performance.
Run dxdiag. Search for instructions on the internet if you don't know how. Post the CPU, GPU, and RAM information.