Making my laptop faster

[Marinos Karp]

Hello i am looking for ways to boost my laptops performance since most of the games i play have been heavily modified through updates and my laptop is kinda weak to the point games like CS:GO at it's lowest settings 480p(yeah that's right! 480p!) struggles at around 20-30 FPS. Another one is league of legends which plays at a comfortably enough 40-50 FPS at the lowest settings possible 720p. I am not optimistic but i think there can be something useful that'll help. I wish i could upgrade to an SSD or even more RAM but unfortunately I am a student and my parents aren't willing to spend extra money,so i am stranded with this. Take a look at the specs and give an idea if helpful. I will try to save up for a cheap ssd but that is gonna downgrade the amount of storage since i use 90% of the laptops 500GB HDD

[zeusthemoose]

8 minutes ago, Marinos Karp said:

Take a look at the specs

Which are?

[Marinos Karp]

• CPU
  Intel Celeron 1005M 1.90Ghz (NO BOOST)
• Motherboard
  Intel PT10F Laptop Motherboard
• RAM
  4GB LPDDR3
• GPU
  Intel HD Graphics
• Storage
  500GB HDD 5400RPM TOSHIBA MQ01ABF050
• Operating System
  Windows 8.1 64-Bit
• Laptop
  Toshiba Sattelite C50-A-19T

  Is there any way to show me easy ways to see if i need to update the drivers

  because i think they're old

[kirashi]

22 minutes ago, Marinos Karp said:

Hello i am looking for ways to boost my laptops performance since most of the games i play have been heavily modified through updates and my laptop is kinda weak to the point games like CS:GO at it's lowest settings 480p(yeah that's right! 480p!) struggles at around 20-30 FPS. Another one is league of legends which plays at a comfortably enough 40-50 FPS at the lowest settings possible 720p. I am not optimistic but i think there can be something useful that'll help. I wish i could upgrade to an SSD or even more RAM but unfortunately I am a student and my parents aren't willing to spend extra money,so i am stranded with this. Take a look at the specs and give an idea if helpful. I will try to save up for a cheap ssd but that is gonna downgrade the amount of storage since i use 90% of the laptops 500GB HDD

 

Replace the laptop with literally anything newer and you'll get better performance. Even an 8th or 9th generation Intel i3 CPU with intergrated graphics will run better than your current machine, mostly because that Celeron CPU and the rest of the machine is from 2013 ish, give or take.
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/75193/intel-celeron-processor-1005m-2m-cache-1-90-ghz.html

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Toshiba-Satellite-C50-Intel®-Portable/dp/B00H4TV630

 

[Marinos Karp]

Fair enough. During quarantine i was close to buying a new short of gaming laptop but some stuff came up that i can't discuss that took away that opportunity which like i said has me stranded with this crap of a laptop. and like i said especially now my parents don't wanna spend extra money for a computer.

[zeusthemoose]

Not much you can do to increase performance. To make it more snappy, an ssd or adding ram is all you can do.

[Marinos Karp]

1 minute ago, zeusthemoose said:

Not much you can do to increase performance. To make it more snappy, an ssd or adding ram is all you can do.

that's a bummer thanks for  the help though

[svmlegacy]

34 minutes ago, Marinos Karp said:

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The best thing you can do is to clean up the OS as best as you can, running a minimum of programs as possible. It won't help much, but that'll get you to the point of performing the very best the hardware can do.

[Marinos Karp]

1 minute ago, svmlegacy said:

The best thing you can do is to clean up the OS as best as you can, running a minimum of programs as possible. It won't help much, but that'll get you to the point of performing the very best the hardware can do.

I will keep that in mind Thanks!