Remember that old fail technology that was called intel turbo memory? Well I decided to take a old 1gb module I had laying around and stick it into my alienware m11x's second mini pcie slot. I installed the drivers in windows 7 compat mode and formatted the visible part that looks like a 500mb hdd as fat32. I then set it up as a dedicated ready boost drive just to see what it would do and BAM after a little bit my lappy became nearly twice as responsive and super fast to boot up with windows 8.
I dont know why it worked this good for me but it did.
I thought I would share
I do have 8gb of ram as well
Hmm interesting... I have a 4GB turbo memory unit in my laptop which has been idle / set as disabled since I upgraded to an SSD..
I have a 2gb Intel turbo memory... Gonna give a try...
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wont the performance on a USB be slow ?
New Lenovo laptop with 10th gen I5 processor is running stupid slow. I formatted the hdd (traditional platter, not SSD) and reinstalled win 10, ran all the updates, let it reboot a dozen times over the last week or so and its still a friggin turd. I have to be missing something as it shouldnt be so sluggish. It benchmarks at around 8900, so im really confused as to why its so slow.
Well, i got a samsung 1TB SSD off amazon for $105, well see what that does
Hello,
I am an enterprise Sr.Help Desk Tech, while working for General DynamicsDynamics another tech and I ran into a similar situation with I7 machines...
have you investigated in device manager to determine if windows is "parking" cores of your processor? Sometimes windows does this and you may only be running on 1 or 2 cores. I hope I provided valuable information. I will provide a link if I can locate one.
Dhammer78 said:
Hello,
I am an enterprise Sr.Help Desk Tech, while working for General DynamicsDynamics another tech and I ran into a similar situation with I7 machines...
have you investigated in device manager to determine if windows is "parking" cores of your processor? Sometimes windows does this and you may only be running on 1 or 2 cores. I hope I provided valuable information. I will provide a link if I can locate one.
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thanks for replying. the SSD did the trick. i analyzed the platter HDD mounted in an external enclosure on my desktop and it was 40 or so percent bad sectors. She runs like a top now
Glad to hear issue was illuminated but sad to hear oob you had a doa hard drive. The ssd vs standard plater is a night and day comparison...I thourougly enjoy my MSI GT83VR TITAN SLI. It comes with dual M.2 SSD IN RAID0 which have a read speed up to 3300MB/s that allows games to load in a flash.
Cheers
hi, anyone know from where i possible buy-upgrade the hard memory on lenovo yoga thinkpad x1 fold, i have only 512gb and i want upgrade minimum 2 tb or more, thank
Way back in 2014 my son and I built this PC with parts we purchased locally in Mumbai.
The idea was to build a PC on which my son could play games.
This was and still is the configuration....
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4440 CPU @ 3.10GHz
Memory 16 GB DDR
Hard Disk: 1 TB
Monitor : 24 in Acer
Graphic Card : Asus nvidia GTX 750ti
Monitor Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
Cabinet : Circle Gaming Cabinet CC 821
SMPS: Corsair VS Series VS550 - 550 Watt SMPS
Keyboard: RedGear
After my son moved on to a PC with better specs, I got my hands on it and have been using this device for the last 3 years. My use has been restricted to Office work. The only high performance task I do is the occasional building of a custom ROM. That required the 16 GB of RAM. It also takes about 3-4 hours. Off late have stopped building ROM's and stick to browse, email, chat all office related stuff. Occasionally use GIMP to edit photos for social media posts. That justifies the RAM.
Have added the following two hardware components.
Audio : Use bOAT Aavante Bar 1130 60 W 2.0 channel soundbar connected to the speaker socket
Printer: HP DeskJet 2332
The OS for the past 4 years has been Ubuntu and the current version running is 20.04.4 LTS...waiting for the 22.04 LTS to be released.
With the old proverb 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' at the back of my mind, thinking of upgrading the PC before it collapses and leaves me stranded.... Looking for some tips on this forum.
I wouldn't bother upgrading it, save perhaps for installing a SATA SSD drive if your 1TB drive is the traditional kind, or better yet a PCI-E M.2 drive adapter if you have a spare PCI slot.
I'd maybe re-apply thermal paste to the CPU and give the heatsink and filters a good clean but otherwise it just isn't worth the bother.
If you are going from traditional HDD to an SSD you will appreciate the boost.
for a few bucks you can get a win 7 pro license and use it to install windows 10. A sata SSD would be a nice addition. Nvme might not work without some bios modding to add nvme driver to it.
Hi everyone,
Currently, I am using ASUS K53SD laptop for video editing and photoshop but now my computer is showing slowness, and now don't have enough money to buy a new computer so I hope you guys can give me some advice. some suggestions to upgrade the hardware are that the price is most reasonable.
Specification
CPU: Intel Core i5 - 2450M
RAM: 8GB
HDD: 1TB
VGA: Intel HD Graphic 3000 + Nvidia Geforce 610M
WLAN: Atheros AR5B195
Thank you!
I believe your first, best, and maybe only option is to replace the old HDD with a new SSD of similar capacity depending on your budget/needs. The speed increase of the SSD should be quite noticeable from the time it takes your computer to boot to the read/write times of your editing. I would start there.
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I believe your first, best, and maybe only option is to replace the old HDD with a new SSD of similar capacity depending on your budget/needs. The speed increase of the SSD should be quite noticeable from the time it takes your computer to boot to the read/write times of your editing. I would start there.
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Yes, it's a great idea. can you tell me if this machine can get 16GB Ram because I do video editing is quite heavy and can you recommend a wifi card that supports Bluetooth 4.0 because I will use it with AirPods and a wireless mouse?
An increase of RAM would have been my first or next suggestion but a quick Google search of your laptap told me the max RAM your laptop will accept is only 8GB ...As far as the wifi cards, I cannot say but I would suggest an external USB dongle for such things as Bluetooth and wifi in a laptop such as yours. If compatible.
trieuanh.07 said:
Hi everyone,
Currently, I am using ASUS K53SD laptop for video editing and photoshop but now my computer is showing slowness, and now don't have enough money to buy a new computer so I hope you guys can give me some advice. some suggestions to upgrade the hardware are that the price is most reasonable.
Specification
CPU: Intel Core i5 - 2450M
RAM: 8GB
HDD: 1TB
VGA: Intel HD Graphic 3000 + Nvidia Geforce 610M
WLAN: Atheros AR5B195
Thank you!
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Just because the specs state that the max RAM supported is 8GB doesn't mean it can't use more, especially if the CPU you have has microcoding to support more than the overall system specs stated by the manufacturer. I had a Dell inspiron N5110 laptop that I upgraded the CPU to a hyper threaded quad core and upgraded the RAM to 16GB of Gskill RAM even though the specs said it would only support 8GB, it used the full 16GB with no issue.
Upgrade your RAM to 16GB of RAM that is at least the next step in mhz and install a SSD, the larger it is, the faster it will be.
If your CPU is socketed and can be upgraded, upgrade the CPU as well, if your laptop has a CPU that is soldered to the board, you can't upgrade the CPU, most laptops have soldered CPU.
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An increase of RAM would have been my first or next suggestion but a quick Google search of your laptap told me the max RAM your laptop will accept is only 8GB ...As far as the wifi cards, I cannot say but I would suggest an external USB dongle for such things as Bluetooth and wifi in a laptop such as yours. If compatible.
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That uses old i5 cpu ...it is a 47ish watt so got to stay in that realm. ASus should have a compatibility matrix for that series .. Every laptop manufacture used a similar build. Lenovo. Dell and others... I am working on 3 lenovo⁸ to replace broken screens. So I sourcing screens can get a HD from better model and I can even go to an 8th generation i7 6700mx from a i3.. replacing mem so I will have 16gb not 4gm...
Buy part laptops of ebay...40 to 100 buks...or I going to use the phones I have w broken screens into my new kali and steam game machines for niece an nephew..
I can tell say the older laptops like yours may be a socket....look up pics for your motherboard on asus ebay..hell thay may be even listed..Asus runs with Dell.. so look for Dell latitude similar model number..
Cool thing is the laptops were all modular.
ALPHA Netwoks makes both NVma and ePCi.wifi and BT cards.. I think yours is the ePcmcia card....that old credit card size things you could expand your laptop with perifials but it is on a card slot...
Good luck
Hi, friend. Usually with the change from mechanical hard disk to ssd a considerable increase in data access speed is achieved, replacing the ram memories with more current ones with greater speed and capacity we also manage to improve speed. Now, you work with video editing, it's hard for me to understand that you're still taking advantage of that veteran Asus, but I see that you're daring and that you're not going to give up easily and I like that hahaha. Personally I recommend you get an intel i7 2670QM and replace it, update all the firmware (possibly you will have already updated the bios, if you haven't already the time has come but there are more upgradable components, do it with everything you can). On the other hand, working mainly with video applications you should replace the graphics card, with that Nvidia Geforce 610M you can't do big things anymore. I can look for a list of compatible graphics if you're willing to update it, but probably by getting one of at least 2Gb, even if it's the same model, you'll already notice a big difference, especially since when it comes to processing the video you won't need to go as far. assiduously to ram memory.
Of course, let's start at the beginning:
Disassemble that notebook, disassemble fans, processors, chipset and everything you can disassemble to replace the thermal putty and thoroughly clean all the equipment because by forcing it a little more the temperature will also be higher.
If you want to go further, reply to the message, I'm already a computer dinosaur but I'm still as passionate as the first day and I wouldn't mind dedicating a few hours to help you.
Thanks for everyone's suggestions, I'm currently using a ThinkPad X1 Carbon, so I'll give this laptop to my brother in the countryside. Anyway, thank you very much, everyone.
trieuanh.07 said:
Thanks for everyone's suggestions, I'm currently using a ThinkPad X1 Carbon, so I'll give this laptop to my brother in the countryside. Anyway, thank you very much, everyone.
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A good team that lenovo thinkpad.
I have a 2013 MacBook Pro 9.2 that came stock with 4GB and I want to push it to 32GB and replace the 250GB disk with a 2TB SSD. Is this possible?
These are both answered for every model at https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup
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I have a 2013 MacBook Pro 9.2 that came stock with 4GB and I want to push it to 32GB and replace the 250GB disk with a 2TB SSD. Is this possible?
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If it has only one RAM slot, 8GB is probably the limit of what it can use, depending on the CPU microcoding and CPU is being used. If it has 2 RAM slots, 16 GB is probably the limit depending on microcoding and CPU.
You can always try 32 and see if it works, all that can happen is it won't boot, removing a stick would probably allow it to boot.