G60VX Upgrade ?

[Flubber]

Hay, I'm gonna be upgrading my old laptop until I can buy a new PC. My laptop is an ASUS G60VX i was looking to upgrade the ram & cpu. At the moment I'm running a Intel Core 2 duo P7350 @2.0 Ghz 4gig ddr2 @800MHz as you can see I'm due for an upgrade just need help picking the right ram and cpu :) any help would be much appreciated. Also the ASUS G60VX has a GTX 260M if anyone wants to know :) Ohh also i don't know if this is the right sub-forum to post in I'm guessing it is because its mobile...

[xox]

Hi Flubber
 
Sorry to say, but it is terrifically difficult to upgrade such a thing as a laptop CPU. However, I can advise you on the RAM that you may purchase.
My advise to you on the memory upgrade too is an unfortunate no. I could not find a decently priced 8gB kit anywhere; Scan.co.uk, Newegg.com, Amazon.co.uk, and NCIX.com did not have an acceptably priced kit in stock. What I tended to find with my old laptop was that I could buy 4gB of DDR2 RAM for it at £60. Which would have been inexcusably expensive; so I opted to save the money and go for a future upgrade and get a better system in the process.
 
Trust me, It's better to get a larger increase in the long run than to get smaller in the short run (if that makes sense).
 
-Tom

[TheRetiredSlave]

Unfortunately, it appears to me that your laptop isn't very upgradeable.. From what I saw, the G60vx uses the MXM 2.1 GPU slot, which was phased out when the MXM 3.0 standard was released after the GTX 200m series.. That fact, and the fact that Asus used a non-standard GPU shape in the G60, means that the GPU isn't upgradeable at all.

 

Like Tom said, the RAM is an expensive upgrade. When I searched Ebay, every single 8 GB (2x4) kit of DDR2 memory was well over $100, which wouldn't really be worth the money.

 

I couldn't find a lot of information about which CPUs can be upgraded to in the G60vx, but I believe that the most powerful you can get is the Core 2 quad 9100.. Don't take my word for it, though, because I couldn't find a lot of information, and I don't know a lot about the core 2 generation of CPUs.

 

To me, it makes more sense to just stick with it as it is, and then use the money that you would have spent on laptop upgrades to fund your next PC.

[Flubber]

Unfortunately, it appears to me that your laptop isn't very upgradeable.. From what I saw, the G60vx uses the MXM 2.1 GPU slot, which was phased out when the MXM 3.0 standard was released after the GTX 200m series.. That fact, and the fact that Asus used a non-standard GPU shape in the G60, means that the GPU isn't upgradeable at all.

 

Like Tom said, the RAM is an expensive upgrade. When I searched Ebay, every single 8 GB (2x4) kit of DDR2 memory was well over $100, which wouldn't really be worth the money.

 

I couldn't find a lot of information about which CPUs can be upgraded to in the G60vx, but I believe that the most powerful you can get is the Core 2 quad 9100.. Don't take my word for it, though, because I couldn't find a lot of information, and I don't know a lot about the core 2 generation of CPUs.

 

To me, it makes more sense to just stick with it as it is, and then use the money that you would have spent on laptop upgrades to fund your next PC.

 

 

Hi Flubber

 

Sorry to say, but it is terrifically difficult to upgrade such a thing as a laptop CPU. However, I can advise you on the RAM that you may purchase.

My advise to you on the memory upgrade too is an unfortunate no. I could not find a decently priced 8gB kit anywhere; Scan.co.uk, Newegg.com, Amazon.co.uk, and NCIX.com did not have an acceptably priced kit in stock. What I tended to find with my old laptop was that I could buy 4gB of DDR2 RAM for it at £60. Which would have been inexcusably expensive; so I opted to save the money and go for a future upgrade and get a better system in the process.

 

Trust me, It's better to get a larger increase in the long run than to get smaller in the short run (if that makes sense).

 

-Tom

Turns out... i have a G51V not g60VX i don't know if that changes anything...

[TheRetiredSlave]

Turns out... i have a G51V not g60VX i don't know if that changes anything...

Not really.. From what I could tell, the hardware in both of those models is roughly the same. The same things we said before still apply.