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THEREALJMAN
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- Feb 23, 2004
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Well I just performed a major upgrade on my Sony PCG-NVR23.
Stock the unit came with:
1800+ AMD CPU
30Gig 4200 RPM hard drive
256 Megs Ram
Nvida 420go video
My upgrades include:
2600+ Mobile Barton CPU
60Gig 7200RPM hard drive
Additional 256 megs ram (512 total)
I wasnt too sure if the Barton would be recognized but it came up right away. However my battery which never lasted long to begin with was sucked dry in about 15 minutes which doesnt make sense because the heat seems to be lower which is amazing. The back of my laptop is usually a furnace but seems much cooler now. I will try some games and see how it heats up. The finish on the heat pump wasn't very good. I might open it up later and lap it. I think it will take a few degrees off the chip.
Overall my laptop is much snappier now. I think it's as fast as a VIA KT266A chipset can possibly go. Overall I think the harddrive made the largest differnce. 4200RPM is way too slow for anything meaningfull.
The hardest part was locking the cpu back into place after putting the new one in. I suppose Sony has a special tool for it but I had to put three flat head screw drivers in the slots on the side and one the back and push them all carefully and evenly forward. Took about 10 minutes to get the socket to actually lock into place.
I for some reason didn't bench the PC first but the speed is noticable. Windows loads very quickly and opening applications is very snappy.
I hope this holds me over until I can build my new A64 system. I have the building bug big time! I have built 3 water cooling systems and modded 4 cases in the last couple months.
The next upgrade for this baby is a ATI9100 video upgrade. I was told it couldn't be done but I have already figured out the connections and just need to tweak out the case a little for it to fit in properly. I will have pix soon.
Thanx for reading.
(excuse any spelling errors here. I havnt loaded Office on my lappy yet so no spell check)
Stock the unit came with:
1800+ AMD CPU
30Gig 4200 RPM hard drive
256 Megs Ram
Nvida 420go video
My upgrades include:
2600+ Mobile Barton CPU
60Gig 7200RPM hard drive
Additional 256 megs ram (512 total)
I wasnt too sure if the Barton would be recognized but it came up right away. However my battery which never lasted long to begin with was sucked dry in about 15 minutes which doesnt make sense because the heat seems to be lower which is amazing. The back of my laptop is usually a furnace but seems much cooler now. I will try some games and see how it heats up. The finish on the heat pump wasn't very good. I might open it up later and lap it. I think it will take a few degrees off the chip.
Overall my laptop is much snappier now. I think it's as fast as a VIA KT266A chipset can possibly go. Overall I think the harddrive made the largest differnce. 4200RPM is way too slow for anything meaningfull.
The hardest part was locking the cpu back into place after putting the new one in. I suppose Sony has a special tool for it but I had to put three flat head screw drivers in the slots on the side and one the back and push them all carefully and evenly forward. Took about 10 minutes to get the socket to actually lock into place.
I for some reason didn't bench the PC first but the speed is noticable. Windows loads very quickly and opening applications is very snappy.
I hope this holds me over until I can build my new A64 system. I have the building bug big time! I have built 3 water cooling systems and modded 4 cases in the last couple months.
The next upgrade for this baby is a ATI9100 video upgrade. I was told it couldn't be done but I have already figured out the connections and just need to tweak out the case a little for it to fit in properly. I will have pix soon.
Thanx for reading.
(excuse any spelling errors here. I havnt loaded Office on my lappy yet so no spell check)