Posted March 7, 2015 My Dell D830 is old and sluggish, but it's not bad for a laptop i got for free. It could easily be faster, so i want to know if upgrading to a cheap 60GB class SSD would be worth my $50, or if i should just find a better laptop on eBay for the same price. Linus once unboxed a Toblerone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted March 7, 2015 Looking at the specs of that laptop I would say no. I would just bite the bullet with the slowness. life(); Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted March 7, 2015 If you could, I'd upgrade to a newer laptop, but if you can't that sounds like a decent idea. I actually did this for a little while with one of the older laptops in our house (~5+ years now), and the performance was very significant (in terms of system boot time, programs loading, etc.), even though the SATA interface probably wasn't even SATA III. I actually couldn't underclock my 5 year old GPU to make it as slow as a next-gen console. #pcmasterraceproblems ~Slick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted March 8, 2015 My Dell D830 is old and sluggish, but it's not bad for a laptop i got for free. It could easily be faster, so i want to know if upgrading to a cheap 60GB class SSD would be worth my $50, or if i should just find a better laptop on eBay for the same price. Run some tiny distro of Linux on it. I wanna say that @terrytek said he used a small distro on an old PC that made it work much faster. |PSU Tier List /80 Plus Efficiency| PSU stuff if you need it. My system: PCPartPicker || For Corsair support tag @Corsair Josephor @Corsair Nick || My 5MT Legacy GT Wagon || Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted March 8, 2015 Author Run some tiny distro of Linux on it. I wanna say that @terrytek said he used a small distro on an old PC that made it work much faster. Even with Puppy linux it's slow as balls. I'm just not going to bother with it. Linus once unboxed a Toblerone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted March 8, 2015 Even with Puppy linux it's slow as balls. I'm just not going to bother with it. Lol, OK. *PSST* I'll sell you my laptop if you want.... |PSU Tier List /80 Plus Efficiency| PSU stuff if you need it. My system: PCPartPicker || For Corsair support tag @Corsair Josephor @Corsair Nick || My 5MT Legacy GT Wagon || Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted March 8, 2015 Author Lol, OK. *PSST* I'll sell you my laptop if you want.... what're its specs and how much are you asking? Linus once unboxed a Toblerone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted March 8, 2015 what're its specs and how much are you asking? Lenovo S210 with 8GB RAM and an OCZ Arc 100 128GB SSD. $300 to lower 48 states. |PSU Tier List /80 Plus Efficiency| PSU stuff if you need it. My system: PCPartPicker || For Corsair support tag @Corsair Josephor @Corsair Nick || My 5MT Legacy GT Wagon || Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted March 8, 2015 Author Lenovo S210 with 8GB RAM and an OCZ Arc 100 128GB SSD. $300 to lower 48 states. That's an awesome laptop, but i've got like $13 lulz Linus once unboxed a Toblerone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted March 8, 2015 That's an awesome laptop, but i've got like $13 lulz lulz OK. If ya ever need a cheap laptop though, I gotcha covered |PSU Tier List /80 Plus Efficiency| PSU stuff if you need it. My system: PCPartPicker || For Corsair support tag @Corsair Josephor @Corsair Nick || My 5MT Legacy GT Wagon || Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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