Upgrade or buy

dballz972 · March 23, 2023

I currently have the hp pavillion 15- ec0xxx. It has the AMD Ryzen 5 3550 H processor, 8 GB ram, 1 TB HDD and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card. As of late the laptop has been underperforming and giving me trouble. I was thinking of upgrading RAM and SSD as the laptop has been slow. I was wondering if it was better to upgrade the laptop or to just a buy new one?

TylerD321 · March 23, 2023

It really depends on how old the laptop is and what you plan to use it for. If gaming, it matters even what specific games you might play. If you have the budget I am leaning more towards buying a new machine.

SquintyG33Rs · March 23, 2023

I'd just upgrade ram to 16gb and swap to an SSD like you where thinking.

the only reason i'd toss it is if the problems are coming from parts i can't swap. buggy software because HP doesn't properly support that line of products for example.
the quality of experience improvement from SSD plus 16GB of ram is massive. also i'm pretty sure that laptop has an m.2 slot

filpo · March 23, 2023

38 minutes ago, dballz972 said:

I currently have the hp pavillion 15- ec0xxx. It has the AMD Ryzen 5 3550 H processor, 8 GB ram, 1 TB HDD and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card. As of late the laptop has been underperforming and giving me trouble. I was thinking of upgrading RAM and SSD as the laptop has been slow. I was wondering if it was better to upgrade the laptop or to just a buy new one?

it depends if your ram usage has been high most of the time (which it probably has been) and if you don't like the weight and slow load times of the hdd (in which case buy the ssd below to replace it)