Acer Aspire AS6530-5753 for $649@NewEgg.com -- free S&H

[murphyslabrat]

That about says it all. Newegg has an instant rebate on this laptop, putting the price at 649 with free shipping. Here's the link:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/..._-34-115-546-_-Product

 

[detus33]

Sick deal - thanks

 

[gbuskirk]

Ordered one yesterday. This machine has 4GB of DDR2-667 RAM; would performance be enhanced by replacement with DDR2-800 (or even DDR2-1066)? How much would a 7200 RPM drive improve performance. This machine has an 8-cell battery so I anticipate decent battery life; the Toshiba A305D-6914 I bought a couple of months ago had only a 6-cell and I ended buying a 9-cell. That Toshiba has the same graphics chip, and it has been serving my son well with the games he has tried (L4D, CoD4, FarCry2, etc.)

 

[murphyslabrat]

you aren't gonna get much of a performance increase with faster memory or HD. You will gain a few frames per second with the RAM, and a 7200 RPM drive would give you mildly ~5-10% faster loadtimes, but both would be at considerable cost to you. I'd leave well enough alone, and enjoy an awesome deal courtesy of Acer, and brought to you by Newegg.com.

 

[popcorn731]

the chipset of this motherboard will not allow DDR greater 667 to run at anything higher then the rated 667 limit on the motherboard.

I have tried DDR800 with Crucial, Corsair and Pony. The system boots up fine, but the OS shows ddr667 and the bios has down clock to ddr667. To my knowledge in the bios their is no way to force it to reconigze lower timing or high bandwith.

If something works for you please post!

Thanks


Not sure on a faster HHD. You got me thinking! I gonna get at 7200rpm one this week and find out. However, other then boot uptime. THe system HHD access time are on par with my desktop. Not noticable but I am sure sysmark test I run will show me some decrease in time. Access time for read and write on laptop HDD that run at 5200rpm is heavily dependant on the proc's controller and MB chipset.

I switched out the amd xl82 2.2ghz cpu with 1.9AMD and my read & right times decreased almost 24%. Now I wonder what would happen with a 7200rpm.

All in all great question you bring up!

 

[tbogstad]

you can get 7200rpm laptop hard drives for as little as $40.00 shipped.

so it would not cost much, and it is more like 25% faster load times.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822145238

this was $40.00 shipped a couple months ago.

and a new seagate 7200rpm 320gb is only $70.00 shipped.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822148336

I have upgraded to 7200rpm drive before and it was the single best upgrade i could do, everything was noticably faster.

dont forget NewEgg has 10% off hard drive right now too, so even cheaper.