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HEY I just checked the manual of my machine... It does have msata there

I already have an SSD, it's just way too small (126GB) and I don't want external drives, but I don't have other drive spaces in my Dell. It's nothing serios tho.

Hi you are probably right, an entirely new system would be the best solution I think. This is just a tought experiment to see what old stuffs expansion capabilitie can do.

Hello everyone! In this topic I'll propose a strange idea that most of you might just find too crazy or just plainly dumb. I'm compareing 2 laptops for gaming, one from 2014, and another from 2008! I'm currently a happy (but not satisfied) user of a Dell 7357 laptop with the i7 4500U processor and gt750m dedicated GPU. I use it for light productivity and gaming at low-ish details. I find it's CPU (which was the best one available at the time, and still is; it's soldered) a bit slow, and it's HDD is not the fastest compared to SSD-s so I started looking around if I could upgrade it but found that I can't do much. I could swap my 1TB HDD for a 128 GB SSD, but I don't want to carry an external storage, and there is no cd drive to swap (there is a spare mSATA, but DELL decided it would be nice to not include the plastic connector, so it's virtually useless). One day I was messing around with my mother's old Compaq 6730b and I tought I look for it's stats I discovered something amazing! If I would to replace the cpu for the Quad Q9100 (provided i solve the power and heat issues) and add an external gpu through Express Card (something a bit better than mine, but not too bottlenecked by PCIe 1.1 x16 speeds, like a GTX760 or 670) it would be a decent competitor (and possibly even an upgrade) to my current machine. The cpu would be a true 4 core, and not a hypert. 2 core, I could possibly overclock it to 3.0 Ghz to compete with my's 3.0 max Turbo freq and a full gtx 760 would surely beat a gt750m by abou 20%, no? This is just a theorical experiment. WHO WOULD WIN? GT750m (1080p) vs External (Express C) GTX670 (720p internal, or 1080p external) i7 4500U with 2c, 4t, 1.8Ghz base 3.0Ghz turbo vs Core2 Quad Q9100 with 4t/c, 2.26Ghz base, at highhest possible OC 3.1GHz 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz vs 8GB DDR2 800MHZ [or if possible (8GB DDR3 1000Mhz] 1TB 7200 rpm HDD vs 1TB 7200 rpm HDD + 128GB SSD or CD/DVD rom nothing vs possible 2 more Express Card expansions via docking station Please tell me your thoughts and arguments! Thanks and have fun!

Nope, there is almost no exrta space inside my laptop. I don't really care about the extra storage but i don't want to loose it because of the faster drive speeds Also I don't want to carry around my hdd just to use the laptop for anything else but the basics. I will look for more solutions

The problem is that I don't really know what would be a direct 'upgrade' of this laptop, as it was on top of the family, and I can't find proper data about 2013-2014 dell Inspiron 15 7000-s... Thanks for your answer tough

Hi guys! I have a (not really) HUGE problem with my Dell 7537... I want to add some sort of SSD WITHOUT removing the hard drive. So I was tinkering around and I found out that my usb board does have probably an msata port but the connector is unsoldered/misssing. (not my post http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/19652320) Do any of you know if some units of Dell laptops had these usb board with msata? Would be a huge help!

Hello Guys! Recently I noticed thatthe price of my desired GPU for an upcoming build become simply too high, a GTX 1060 6Gb. A couple weeks ago it was just 240€ and now its around 600€ (WTF!!!). this is also the case with 1070, 1080/ti and the AMD RX500 series. WHAT THE FRICKING HELL?!?!? Almost 200% prices? As it turns out it's because of cryptominers (again) who buy extensive amounts (about 6 cards for ONE build), so they can make profit. This trend became so big, that production capabilities were overpassed, and stocks, emptied, so producers had to raise the prices. BUT TO FRICKING INSANE LEVELS. What can we do, who don't want mid-advanced cards? I personally choose GTX1060 6gb because it's one of the few 'cheapo' GPUs with official VR support (for a possible future upgrade)