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Laptop Upgrades?

  • 11-05-2019 09:00PM
    #1
    stesaurus
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    I have an Inspiron 7720 and would like to make some upgrades if they'd be useful and not too costly. I've upgraded the HD to a 256gb SSD so I'm ok with that. There's 8gb of Ram already, not sure if moving to 16gb would make much difference.
    The GPU is a Geforce GT650M so this is probably the easiest to impact. I don't game on the laptop, except maybe football manager so I don't need graphic intensive. Any idea where I can see an easy list of compatible upgrades? Also any other upgrades which would have a good impact?


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
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    stesaurus wrote: »
    I have an Inspiron 7720 and would like to make some upgrades if they'd be useful and not too costly. I've upgraded the HD to a 256gb SSD so I'm ok with that. There's 8gb of Ram already, not sure if moving to 16gb would make much difference.
    The GPU is a Geforce GT650M so this is probably the easiest to impact. I don't game on the laptop, except maybe football manager so I don't need graphic intensive. Any idea where I can see an easy list of compatible upgrades? Also any other upgrades which would have a good impact?

    you can't upgrade that graphics card your laptop as it's soldered in.

    ram upgrade to 16gb won't make a lot of difference unless you are doing a lot of video editing.

    check your ram usage in task mgr ctrl+shift+esc to see how much you are using.

    the hdd to ssd that you have already done makes the most difference in terms of speed of boot-up and general operation


  • #3
    stesaurus
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    glasso wrote: »
    you can't upgrade that graphics card your laptop as it's soldered in.

    ram upgrade to 16gb won't make a lot of difference unless you are doing a lot of video editing.

    check your ram usage in task mgr ctrl+shift+esc to see how much you are using.

    the hdd to ssd that you have already done makes the most difference in terms of speed of boot-up and general operation

    Soldered really? Ok wow didn't realize that. So basically a new laptop if I want to upgrade it


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 19,236 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    stesaurus wrote: »
    Soldered really? Ok wow didn't realize that. So basically a new laptop if I want to upgrade it

    yes


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 19,236 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    there is basically only one laptop with an upgradable gpu - the Alienware Area 51m - starts from $2549

    https://hexus.net/tech/news/laptop/126161-alienware-area-51m-laptop-upgradable-cpu-gpu/


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