Search results matching tag 'Upgrade'

upgrading Macbook Memory

teemu6209 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:20:58 GMT

Hey guys,

My friend asked me to upgrade the ram in her macbook, i just want to make sure i am buying the right one. She has a 13" Macbook, and in the 'About this mac' screen it currently says "512 MB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM"

Here is what i am thinking of buying...http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134372

Thanks a lot!

ASUS TUSL2-C board upgrade question

Maniwar — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:41:01 GMT

I was sent to this site by newegg, who was absolutely no help.

A friend of mine is looking for memory for a motherboard he's purchasing today, but I'm trying to get him to buy all components from newegg, if they have them.

Basically, he has an old ASUS TUSL2-C board and we want to upgrade him to a faster and newer board, but we have several large in good working order, EIDE hard drives and want a board that is EIDE compatible. We also want to keep the same tower (original tower that came with the ASUS) since it's a good one. He's been looking at buying the following...

ASUS P4B533-X Socket 478 400/533FSB Mainboard with DDR 400, AGP 4X, Audio, LAN, 4 PCI – OEM
from http://3btech.net/asp4so47840m3.html

1GB DDR / 266MHz Memory Upgrade for ASUS P4B533-X Motherboard
from http://www.1stchoicememory.com/catalog/viewitem.asp?p=C285190069

Intel Pentium 4 3.00GHz 800MHz 478 pin CPU OEM
from http://www.starmicro.net/detail.aspx?ID=120

Is this a good board to upgrade to, or is there a better suggestion out there? I asked Newegg to tell me if they had the components or a better suggestion, but they said they couldn't answer me and sent me here.

Help with installing new graphics card

kylemc — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:37:02 GMT

The graphics card i am installing is a GeForce 9500 GT I am installing it on a computer with an onboard graphics card (not positive but i think that that is called an intergrated card). Anyway i was just looking for a step by step processes on how i should go about doing this. Should i uninstall old driver first then install graphics card. In the instructions it says to remove old graphics card install new card then too power up and uninstall old driver. However since this is an onboard card should i uninstall the driver first before i put new card in? i am not really to confident on the steps so if i could get some advice that would be great.

I am not sure on my specs i bought this computer for school from a friend a few years back it is a

dell dimension E520

it has a upgraded hard-drive and that is about it looks like it is about 300 GB now up intel celeron D and windows X that is all i know

Thanks fro you help

Full System Over Upgrade?

Nickum32 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:40:52 GMT

Hey, I have just got my copy of the Windows 7 Upgrade disc. I'm upgrading from XP 32-bit, and every time I attempt to upgrade I get an 0xC0000005 error, as I have previously posted on the Windows 7 forums. I didn't get anything that helped me, and I was wondering if it was worth it to sell it and get the entire Windows 7, or format my HDD and reinstall XP and then 7 over it. All help is appreciated, Thanks!

Full system over upgrade?

Nickum32 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:36:26 GMT

HELP!?!

Nickum32 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:00:37 GMT

I just received my copy of Windows 7 Home Upgrade, I couldn't resist the $50 back in July, and I was trying to install it over Windows XP Home, but it gave me an error like this: "Windows installation encountered an unexpected error. Verify that the installation sources are accessible, and restart the installation
Error code: 0xC0000005"

I googled it but nothing useful came up, I was just wondering if someone could help me, thanks for your time.

Upgrading a DIY Computer

cr101 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:00:56 GMT

My brother and I recently built a computer as a DIY project. We now have $495 dollars more to spend and are hoping to upgrade the video card, motherboard (to one with 8 gb RAM), and processor (we want to upgrade to a quadcore). The computer is using an HDTV as a monitor and the video card must support HDMI or DVI output.

What would you recommend?

System Specs
Budget: $495	VGA: EVGA 01G-P3-N959-TR GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR2	Monitor: 65" HDTV
MB: GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L LGA 775 Micro ATX	OS: Dual boots Vista Home Premium and Ubuntu	Browser: Firefox
CPU: Intel Core Duo Core 2.66GHz 6MB Cache overclocked to 3.2GHz	Sound: Onboard	CPU Pps: Gaming
Memory: OCZ Platinum 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2	PSU: OCZ 500W	Brand: None
HD: 500 GB Seagate	Cooling: Fans	Misc:

Windows 7 upgrade XP, new hard disk, dual boot?

chaircrusher — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:54:26 GMT

Here's what I'm planning on doing.

1. Use Drive Image XML to clone my XP system disk to a new hard drive

2. Boot to the new cloned disk, and do the Windows 7 Install.

3. Keep the old system disk in the system so I can boot back into XP until I'm confident that everything is working with 7.

I've done a 'proof of concept' run on cloning the system disk and booting with the clone. The problem I ran into was that XP was squirrelly about how this worked -- it booted to the new drive, but that drive wasn't 'C' it was 'H' -- and according to the Disk Management tool, it was using the pagefile on the C drive!

So the question is this -- do I have to disconnect my old system disk and boot to the new disk, install windows 7, and then reconnect my old system disk? It seems really squirrelly that if I tell the BIOS to boot from a certain physical disk, that XP comes up and the system disk isn't C!

Need a 500 watt PSU

rconzx — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:10:34 GMT

Hello all, my friend is considering to replace his 300 watt PSU for a 500w tier 2/T/3. I don't know his full specs but he is running a QX9650 and a few harddrives/DVD drives. I convinced him to get the newly power efficient 4770 but I think he might just end up getting a 4850 since 4770 prices have now gone above $100 on newegg.

He will also be purchasing this sound card

Taking all that into consideration he wants to buy a good PSU around $60 but I'm sure he'll go up to $80.Can someone personally recommend a PSU that is 500watts and <$80? Biggest factor is the price, if he can get a Tier 1 500watt supply under $80, that would be great. Thanks.

Bonus: should he go with the 4770 or 4850, again he wants to spend less than $100 on a GPU, he's not big gamer.

Upgrade from 9800GT?

jcorp — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:57:56 GMT

I'm looking to upgrade to a better graphics card. Currently, I have an XFX 9800 GT:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150323

I'll be selling this card to a friend for about half of retail value, $50, and I'm searching for one to replace it with. As I'll be selling this card, I'm in a budget of around $100-150; I'm wondering if this is too limited to find a card that would make a significant difference. I'm open to ATI and NVIDIA. In my price range, I figure I'll be looking at Radeon 4800 series and GeForce GTS series cards.

I think that a key here will be looking out for deals as they come along. I missed my chance with a few cards listed in a 24-Hour sale yesterday, but I'll be keeping my eyes peeled.

Please, does anyone have any suggestions, ideas, etc.? Even basic suggestions on what kind of specs I might look for? Thanks.

P.S. I might stretch my budget if this card is worth it:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130434