SERprise
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Hi, I am one of those who managed to get one of those Black Friday specials, but that thing is soooo slow. It is definately worth the money and everything, I mean I don't plan on playing any games or anything, I have my PC for that. To be honest though, the 1ghz pentium notebook(Prostar) this HP is replacing is just as fast. I actually went and downloaded all of the drivers from HP's site, and I am going to reinstall XP home(a microsoft CD, not HP's with all of that proprietary software on it). I am about to reinstall XP now and install nothing but the drivers, firefox, and my copy of office XP. I know that will definately speed it up, but I know 256 megs of ram just wont cut it for me with XP. I am wanting to upgrade it to 1 gig, would I be better off getting 2 512 chips or a single 1 gig chip?? I know it is cheaper to get a couple 512 chips but would that drain my battery having to run 2 chips instead of one or does it not matter??? Another thing is.. I did some research on the mobile 2800+ sempron it comes with and the processor is capable of DDR400, so why doesn't it have it?? It comes with a single 256mb DDR333 chip. I went in to the bios and it doesn't even have an option(any options actually.. just boot sequence really) to switch it to run at DDR400 speeds? If I just order some PC3200, will it actually run at 400?? Will the motherboard automatically detect it or is the motherboard set to 333 and nothing else?? I wouldnt mind the extra .1 volt power needed if it can run at 400, that is definately worth letting my battery die a little faster, but if it isn't possible I don't want to waste the extra $ and I will just get some more pc2700 and keep it at 333.. I am totally clueless about laptops, so ANY help would be appreciated, feel free to talk to me like I am a newb, because basically that is what I am in this area.
-Cory
(It has ATI's XPRESS 200m video, 2800+ mobile Sempron, 1x256MB DDR333 chip, I think the 200M is shared memory too, so really I am barely running with more than 200 megs of ram, definately bottlenecking the laptop)
-Cory
(It has ATI's XPRESS 200m video, 2800+ mobile Sempron, 1x256MB DDR333 chip, I think the 200M is shared memory too, so really I am barely running with more than 200 megs of ram, definately bottlenecking the laptop)
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