- Jul 28, 2004
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I have a compaq presario 1275, which was made circa 1999 with the following configuration:
AMD k6-2 366
160 MB Ram
4 GB HDD (probably 4200rpm, maybe 2 mb cache)
I recently had to take the laptop apart in order to fix the motherboard power jack, which seems to fail often in compaqs. So I thought to myself, Is it worth upgrading to a 40GB hitachi travelstar 7200 rpm 8 mb cache HDD, which seems to perform marvelously. I have already maxed out the RAM, and the CPU will not get to 500 Mhz without thermal issues, which is really hard to fix in laptops.
So the questions is, should I invest about $120 in a new harddrive for better performance?
AMD k6-2 366
160 MB Ram
4 GB HDD (probably 4200rpm, maybe 2 mb cache)
I recently had to take the laptop apart in order to fix the motherboard power jack, which seems to fail often in compaqs. So I thought to myself, Is it worth upgrading to a 40GB hitachi travelstar 7200 rpm 8 mb cache HDD, which seems to perform marvelously. I have already maxed out the RAM, and the CPU will not get to 500 Mhz without thermal issues, which is really hard to fix in laptops.
So the questions is, should I invest about $120 in a new harddrive for better performance?