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Posted: May 20, 2008 12:45 am  | |
      IRC Nickname: Matt|Georgio9 Group: Emeritus Posts: 706 Member No.: 94 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0    | Well I'm going to eventually upgrade my laptop from 2gig of RAM to 4gig. But at the same time I'm short on hard drive space. I only have a 120gb disk and I'm thinking of eventually putting in a 320gb drive. I want to know what you guys think I should get first. --------------------   |
Posted: May 20, 2008 12:47 am | |
 IRC Nickname: Kiwi011 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3052 Member No.: 40 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 21 | ask robbie  --------------------  |
Posted: May 20, 2008 02:20 am | |
 IRC Nickname: Dnovelta Group: Emeritus Posts: 2750 Member No.: 130 Joined: January 20, 2008 Total Events Attended: 137 | I'd go with the RAM first because I like multitasking and being able to run things quickly. It depends on what you prefer doing really. HDD is mostly for storage, and depending on the speed how fast you can access information on your HDD. If you're more into just downloading stuff and keeping it without worry go with the HDD first. If you're into more immediate speed and better multitasking ability, go with the RAM. I'm more of a speed person so it stands to reason why I'd go with the RAM. I've had my MacBook Pro for about 4 months now and have only used 70 GB out of 200. --------------------   |
Posted: May 20, 2008 02:52 am | |
 IRC Nickname: [JC] Group: Emeritus Posts: 3320 Member No.: 23 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 147 | 2gig's isnt that bad for a laptop, go for the hard drive first. --------------------  Old awards wat Most Mature & Most Honourable Most Dedicated|IRC Freak|Best Emeritus Placeholder lolz |
Posted: May 20, 2008 03:55 am | |
 IRC Nickname: RobbieThe1st Group: Founder Posts: 770 Member No.: 2 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 49 | Well, I would run task manager for a while and check memory usage when using a bunch of heavy-usage programs. If you are maxing out your memory, and using a lot of cache, then its probably a good idea to get more memory. If however you aren't coming close, I would look around for some tips on how to load system files into memory, and reduce or turn off your cache file, and speed up your computer that way. Harddisk wise, that won't affect speed unless you get within a few gigs of being full, or if it is extremely fragmented. As you have a laptop, I suggest you keep the harddisk you have and go buy a 500gb or 1tb external harddisk - They are much cheaper than any laptop harddisk, and anyway 120gb is plenty of space to be using at any one time. I have a 40gb harddisk in my laptop and it took quite a while to get full, and once I started moving my large downloaded video files and such, it didn't get close. Also, I don't know the specs of your laptop - Depending, you may not get much if any benefit from going over the 2GB you have now: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778(VS.85).aspx Hope that helps! -RobbieThe1st -------------------- Old Avatar - Paypal donation link  I am left handed, and proud of it! Retired from RuneScape. Old forum posts: 2275(s4+s10+wg.com)+1759(z6 old account)+474(z6 new account) Total: 4508 Join date: 4/16/05 | Get Firefox 3.5 now: http://www.getfirefox.com | RobbieSwich for Firefox |
Posted: May 20, 2008 07:20 am | |
 IRC Nickname: Mickey Group: Emeritus Posts: 5305 Member No.: 48 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 282 | I have 2 Hard disks, one 40gig(for my vista) and another 120gig(for w/e I want to do with it) and I will probably never use all that memory. --------------------    |
Posted: May 20, 2008 06:00 pm | |
| IRC Nickname: Job| Group: Clan Friend Posts: 370 Member No.: 28 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 0 | Put it this way, I have an 80gb HDD and 2gb of Ram - on a desktop. You're fine L --------------------   90 Prayer funds |
Posted: June 5, 2008 12:20 am | |
 IRC Nickname: Mike|Sonix Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1483 Member No.: 13 Joined: December 29, 2007 Total Events Attended: 103 | I don't know about you, but I'm running vista and 2 GB is more than enough. 4 GB is a waste IMO. I would get the Hard Drive just because you need space on your computer, and chances are you already have enough speed. You may think you're getting more out of 4 GB than you were with 2 GB, but you probably aren't. I could be wrong. If you have 50 photoshop processes open at one time, then maybe RAM is for you, but I doubt you are doing anything like that. --------------------  |
Posted: June 7, 2008 05:49 pm | |
 IRC Nickname: Final Heaven Group: Ex-Member Posts: 157 Member No.: 399 Joined: March 30, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | this desktop i got right now i've had for over 5 years (Sony Vaio some**** model) upgraded to 1gb of ram and a GeForce graphics card but its still ****ty personally, i have less that 80 gig of memory you only need a lot if you watch a lot of porn or something tbh -------------------- Currently playing Warhammer Online http://realmwar.warhammeronline.com/realmw...7519&server=168 |
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