What do you think about my laptop spec?

[Pom Pom]

Processer Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz 2.00 GHz
RAM 8.00 GB
64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Nvidia Geforce GT 555M

OS Windows 10 (debloated)

[Hennix]

for inetbrowsing and office ok
not for gaming

[andreasaspenberg575]

you should upgrade your ram.

[Obsessive Power]

That's a very old laptop. The i7-2630QM was released in 2011.

If you just want to use it for general web browsing and productivity (office based apps, and image editing), you should upgrade the storage to an SSD and the RAM to 16GB.

You're not going to be able to do any meaningful gaming on it.

[UserNotFound]

Yep, you can perceptively increase performance with just a simple RAM upgrade to 16GB and perhaps, being of that generation, a fair sized SATA SSD (1TB/2TB). Those would result in a more responsive system, and definitely faster boot up time. You can, however, forget about gaming with that laptop though, it's way too dated.

[andreasaspenberg575]

based on your motherboard, you might also be able to upgrade to 32 gigabytes. it depends on wether you have 1, 2 or 4 ram slots. though then you would need to upgrade your cpu to one of the better cpus within that generation. if you only have 2 ram slots however, you are limited to 16.
if you have 1 ram slot you can of course not upgrade your ram.

[A&A]

Old specs, but not that bad specs. They are good for light gaming and work.

And the games you have, I see no point in upgrading to 16GB. The good thing is that it's cheap if you need it and it's your choice if you see that your computer uses a lot of pagefile.

Tip: If you often use the laptop without it being connected to a charger and you want to extend the life of the battery by at least a little more, you can turn off the turbo boost from the power plan settings. In this way, the CPU will work more efficiently. Still requires to be tested at maximum load, but the amount of electricity saved by doing one task should be more than what the other components additionally will draw.

[_I_]

Originally posted by andreasaspenberg575:

you should upgrade your ram.

8g is fine for win10 if just browsing, even old games that the gt550m can run

its an old i7 2ghz quad core laptop from 2011

not very good for anything new, but for games 10+ years old its fine

[andreasaspenberg575]

based on your game library, you need something better for some games but, not for all. epic battle phatasy 4 and 5 runs slowly even on the slightly stronger i7-4700mq. star trek online requires a faster gpu for maximum settings. runs well on my gtx 770m when it is not throttling.

[Pom Pom]

Originally posted by andreasaspenberg575:

based on your game library, you need something better for some games but, not for all. epic battle phatasy 4 and 5 runs slowly even on the slightly stronger i7-4700mq. star trek online requires a faster gpu for maximum settings. runs well on my gtx 770m when it is not throttling.

I barely play any game. it's for fine me.

[UserNotFound]

Originally posted by nineret:

I barely play any game. it's for fine me.

Then, what's the point of this thread? IF you're happy with the performance, I guess that's all well and good.

But IF you wanna speed it up in terms of boot up speed, and having it run better when multi-tasking, then a SATA SSD and 16GB of RAM would definitely help.

[Sebastian]

U should add more ram ( to 16). Sata SSD alose is a good solution for your hardware. Your computer Has one advantage- graphic card by Nvidia

[Obsessive Power]

Even if you don't upgrade the RAM - which isn't really required if you're just browsing and watching videos with only a few tabs - You could get away with just changing to an SSD.

An SSD and a clean install of Windows will breath new life into this old machine.

[Haruspex]

Eh, depends on what you're doing with it.

If you're trying to run the latest and greatest demanding titles, you are under-speced and out of date.

If you're browsing the Internet, doing light productivity tasks, and playing lightweight indie games or retro emulation, you're fine. Lots of fun to be had at that spec.

[smokerob79]

OK back to the real world......

RAM upgrade wont do much IF you already have 2x4gb in the system as running dual channel VS single channel on a platform this old is a bigger factor then having 8gb VS 16gb.......this is do to the fact that any game that would run well on this system wont need more then 8gb of memory given the hardware age and what it can run.....again BE REAL as we have a GTX550 mobile to game on people....dont tell him to waste money on your EGO.....

so to sum up the memory part do NOT worry about memory unless you only have one stick in the laptop......then worry about things like it only having a single slot ......and go from there....

a SSD would be massive upgrade to the whole laptop in running EVERYTHING......but for gaming outside of loading times its not going to give you faster frame rates (given prices of SATA based SSDs a 1tb can be had for 40 bucks on sale in the US, its worth doing even if you keep it for just internet)

as for the rest of it....man its old....things this old when i see them always have issues like bad keyboards, hinges that are shot....screens cracked faded or getting spotty....at some point they always end up as headless horse men with a external monitor and M/K set.....


oh and if you can REPASTE that CPU and GPU.....would love to see the temps on that thing running prime 95 and Heaven, before and after a repaste......

[A&A]

Interesting how everybody talks about a SSD upgrade, but OP haven't mentioned anything about storage.