Old Creaky Dell D600

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I'm typing on a D600 I acquired 4.5 years ago. 1.4 Ghz CPU, 40 GB, and 1 MB
RAM. It's been a great machine, and I'm stuck with it for another year, at
least. A recent upgrade to Word 2003 went badly (macro warnings I can't
prevent) and I'm ready to wipe this beast and reinstall XP. In the meantime,
I'm wondering about spending some ebay money on a couple minor upgrades. I
can get a 1.7 CPU for about $20, and maybe a 5400 rpm hdd for about $40.

Anyone know if that CPU will work in this system? It's a minor upgrade, but
for $20 wtf.

The concern I have for the HDD is heat...the original makes a warm spot
under my left hand, will 5400 make it hot?

-John O
 
JohnO said:
I'm typing on a D600 I acquired 4.5 years ago. 1.4 Ghz CPU, 40 GB, and 1 MB
RAM. It's been a great machine, and I'm stuck with it for another year, at
least. A recent upgrade to Word 2003 went badly (macro warnings I can't
prevent) and I'm ready to wipe this beast and reinstall XP. In the meantime,
I'm wondering about spending some ebay money on a couple minor upgrades. I
can get a 1.7 CPU for about $20, and maybe a 5400 rpm hdd for about $40.

Anyone know if that CPU will work in this system? It's a minor upgrade, but
for $20 wtf.

The concern I have for the HDD is heat...the original makes a warm spot
under my left hand, will 5400 make it hot?

-John O
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CPU's in laptops cannot always be replaced
but even if so I doubt if it would be worth it.

As for the HD, if yours still has the original 4200rpm drive
then getting a 5400 should be a good enough idea as it should be easy to
replace.
the 5400 rpm drive should not run any hotter,
but I guess you won't know for sure until you try it.
 
The upgrade from 1.4Ghz to 1.7 is too small an increase for it to be worth
while.
Now the drive upgrade, a 7200rpm drive may be a noticeable improvement.

If this is a laptop PC then check to see if the hard drive and the CPU are
easily
replicable and if so do you have Windows CD or some method of transferring
Windows OS and all your files to the new hard drive.

Since you did not specify the drive size, your PC may be too old to support
drives that are larger than 137GB. See the Dell support page below:
https://support.dell.com/support/to...&component=-1&lang=-1&doclang=en&toggle=false

JS
http://www.pagestart.com
 
JohnO said:
I'm typing on a D600 I acquired 4.5 years ago. 1.4 Ghz CPU, 40 GB, and 1 MB
RAM. It's been a great machine, and I'm stuck with it for another year, at
least. A recent upgrade to Word 2003 went badly (macro warnings I can't
prevent) and I'm ready to wipe this beast and reinstall XP. In the meantime,
I'm wondering about spending some ebay money on a couple minor upgrades. I
can get a 1.7 CPU for about $20, and maybe a 5400 rpm hdd for about $40.

Anyone know if that CPU will work in this system? It's a minor upgrade, but
for $20 wtf.

The concern I have for the HDD is heat...the original makes a warm spot
under my left hand, will 5400 make it hot?

-John O
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I upgrade my Dell 6000 HD from 5400 to 7200 and found it heated up more
than I was comfortable with. I reverted back to the old one and use the
7200 for USB image backups. Its more practical and I didn't see that
much of an improvement in speed anyway, that an the drive was only 20
gig bigger. But I know now. Rather have an SATA drive.
 
Cool utility, but they don't have any upgrade parts. They don't tell me
what's possible, only what they offer. Thanks!
 
Big_Al said:
I upgrade my Dell 6000 HD from 5400 to 7200 and found it heated up more
than I was comfortable with. I reverted back to the old one and use the
7200 for USB image backups. Its more practical and I didn't see that
much of an improvement in speed anyway, that an the drive was only 20 gig
bigger. But I know now. Rather have an SATA drive.
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This drive is 4200, so 5400 would be a nice upgrade. I think it was an
option when I bought it.

Thanks for the info.

John O
 
JohnO said:
I'm typing on a D600 I acquired 4.5 years ago. 1.4 Ghz CPU, 40 GB, and 1
MB RAM. It's been a great machine, and I'm stuck with it for another year,
at least. A recent upgrade to Word 2003 went badly (macro warnings I can't
prevent) and I'm ready to wipe this beast and reinstall XP. In the
meantime, I'm wondering about spending some ebay money on a couple minor
upgrades. I can get a 1.7 CPU for about $20, and maybe a 5400 rpm hdd for
about $40.

Anyone know if that CPU will work in this system? It's a minor upgrade,
but for $20 wtf.

The concern I have for the HDD is heat...the original makes a warm spot
under my left hand, will 5400 make it hot?

-John O
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With only 1MB of RAM, WinXP will fall over straight away.
The absolute minimum for XP is 64MB of RAM and you really need 1GB of RAM.
 
philo said:
CPU's in laptops cannot always be replaced
but even if so I doubt if it would be worth it.
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Physically it's a snap, less than two minutes. This would be a 20% faster
CPU, on the edge of what's noticeable. But, for $20 why not?
As for the HD, if yours still has the original 4200rpm drive
then getting a 5400 should be a good enough idea as it should be easy to
replace.
the 5400 rpm drive should not run any hotter,
but I guess you won't know for sure until you try it.
Click to expand...

Worst case, I can put the second drive in the optical drive bay. Those
adapters are real cheap.

-John O
 
Mick the spiv said:
With only 1MB of RAM, WinXP will fall over straight away.
The absolute minimum for XP is 64MB of RAM and you really need 1GB of RAM.
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Meg, Gig....it's all the same. :-)
 
JohnO said:
Physically it's a snap, less than two minutes. This would be a 20% faster
CPU, on the edge of what's noticeable. But, for $20 why not?
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It's a duff processor and your laptop doesn't work again after you swap
the working one out?
 
I'm typing on a D600 I acquired 4.5 years ago. 1.4 Ghz CPU, 40 GB, and 1 MB
RAM. It's been a great machine, and I'm stuck with it for another year, at
least. A recent upgrade to Word 2003 went badly (macro warnings I can't
prevent) and I'm ready to wipe this beast and reinstall XP. In the meantime,
I'm wondering about spending some ebay money on a couple minor upgrades. I
can get a 1.7 CPU for about $20, and maybe a 5400 rpm hdd for about $40.
Click to expand...

eBay? Forget it! I've bought some items and they were buggy.
Even if you plan to use the HDD in the Laptop only for a
year, a new HDD can be pulled later and be enclosed in a
usb-case and used as a external unit.

Anyone know if that CPU will work in this system? It's a minor upgrade, but
for $20 wtf.

The concern I have for the HDD is heat...the original makes a warm spot
under my left hand, will 5400 make it hot?

-John O
Click to expand...



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