Upgrading time

[blue-eye-boy]

So my laptop is a very old one, fujitsu siemens celeron. It's still workable, but needs attention. I "borrowed someone's laptop for a few months now, but the person wants it back now. I intended to get myself a descent pc, but the moola isn't right now.

So I thought that for the time, why not give a little attention on the fujitsu laptop, which can still go a long way.

What my thoughts was, to get a new hdd for it, get a nice screen and keyboard to use with it. Later on if I get a pc, I can still use the keyboard. I thought of getting the new hdd, and a 2.5 external case for the old hdd just to copy all the stuff on there to the new drive inside the laptop. Will it work?

The latop has a PATA 60 drive now. I saw this hdd, and saw here that it comes in a laptop version too. Will that fit in a place where I take out a PATA drive, and will it overall work in the laptop? Or will the rest of the laptop's hardware not work with such a drive?

 

[Wyzak]

SATA and PATA are incompatible, so in all likelihood the new hdd that you are referring to won't work in your old machine. If it were possible it would have increased your hdd speed significantly, but I think the other components in the system will quickly become a new bottleneck.

Do you really, I mean REALLY, need a laptop? You can get an awesome desktop for the price of a decent laptop, and a good desktop for the price of a low end laptop.

 

[blue-eye-boy]

I know, and I wont buy a new laptop. I want to get a new desktop, and wanted to upgrade the laptop later. But because I'm pressed for time now, I thought of upgrading the laptop now, and get the desktop later.

 

[Chevron]

I know, and I wont buy a new laptop. I want to get a new desktop, and wanted to upgrade the laptop later. But because I'm pressed for time now, I thought of upgrading the laptop now, and get the desktop later.

Rather get the desktop and salvage as much as you can.

What's the main use of the pc? I'm sure we could get something cheap but still upgradeable for you.

 

[blue-eye-boy]

Ag I dont play games, so it would be photoshop, general word processsing, pastel, browsing, dvd copies, that sort of thing.

I know I dont need a powerhouse, but I dont like buying cheap now, just to have to upgrade in a year's time. Thats why I wanted to save up to get a good pc, but for the meantime upgrade the latop to get better use out of it for now.

 

[ponder]

The latop has a PATA 60 drive now. I saw this hdd, and saw here that it comes in a laptop version too. Will that fit in a place where I take out a PATA drive, and will it overall work in the laptop? Or will the rest of the laptop's hardware not work with such a drive?

No it won't work. You cannot stick a SATA drive in a PATA laptop. You will have to buy a PATA drive. Unless you have space in the laptop to hack a pata to sata converter in.

Those celeron cpu's overclock pretty easily and can give you a +25% boost.

 

[blue-eye-boy]

Okay, will check that out, the overclocking and the converter. Will google to get it.

 

[ponder]

Okay, will check that out, the overclocking and the converter. Will google to get it.

Overclocking guides I used:
http://www.notebookforums.com/t/80879/a-photo-guide-for-pin-modding-9300-xps-and-applying-as5-to-gpu
http://www.overclockers.com/overclocking-picture-guide-for-the-toshiba-satellite-series/
I used Artic Silver 5 thermal paste and my temps also dropped.

I doubt you fill find enough space for a pata to sata converter but good luck.
http://www.cooldrives.com/2sahadrtoide.html
You will have to see if you can make that fit somehow or relocate it somewhere else in the laptop run cables to extend it's reach. Will involve custom mounting and some improvisation if space allows. If you do get it right keep in mind that it will still run at PATA speeds but that's OK as with a SSD you will have way less latency. Another option is to look at 1.8" SSDs but then you will require a mini-sata adapter of zif (pata) adapter, this might give you a bit more space to work with.

Edit: Another option would be to remove the optical drive and use that space if you can live without an optical drive. This will allow you to run two drives at once

Oh, 2GB of RAM on those older laptops also helps a lot.

 

[blue-eye-boy]

Overclocking guides I used:
http://www.notebookforums.com/t/80879/a-photo-guide-for-pin-modding-9300-xps-and-applying-as5-to-gpu
http://www.overclockers.com/overclocking-picture-guide-for-the-toshiba-satellite-series/
I used Artic Silver 5 thermal paste and my temps also dropped.

I doubt you fill find enough space for a pata to sata converter but good luck.
http://www.cooldrives.com/2sahadrtoide.html
You will have to see if you can make that fit somehow or relocate it somewhere else in the laptop run cables to extend it's reach. Will involve custom mounting and some improvisation if space allows. If you do get it right keep in mind that it will still run at PATA speeds but that's OK as with a SSD you will have way less latency. Another option is to look at 1.8" SSDs but then you will require a mini-sata adapter of zif (pata) adapter, this might give you a bit more space to work with.

Edit: Another option would be to remove the optical drive and use that space if you can live without an optical drive. This will allow you to run two drives at once

Oh, 2GB of RAM on those older laptops also helps a lot.

Okay thanks very much for all the info.