Sager Laptop Motherboard Upgrade

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sundarv

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I have a Sager 2200C Model Laptop with the following config: Intel Pentium III 1GHz, 512 MB RAM, and 20 GB HDD. Can I just buy a new motherboard, processor, and RAM to upgrade it? The manual says the following about the existing motherboard:
Intel FC-PGA370 Pentium III with AGP technology-based mainboard, using the SiS630S
chipset solution supporting SDRAM with 0MB on-board DRAM, expandable to 32MB, 64MB,
96MB, 128MB, 192MB, 256MB, or 512MB using one or two expansion SODIMMs
 
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Its probably not worth upgrading it. You are going to run into a lot of issues and most of them will be nearly impossible to get around.

1.) Laptop hardware is incredibly expensive from an end user perspective.
2.) You will probably not find modern parts that will fir the chassis of your laptop.
3.) If you do find modern parts that fit the chassis your laptop was created with a certain heat dissipation in mind. The new parts would probably be a higher heat generation.
4.) If they did work from a heat generation perspective then you run into actually powering the new parts. They will probably need connectors that the current power supply is not capable of meeting.

You could probably get a faster Pentium 3 CPU or more ram and they...
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cosmo77

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Its probably not worth upgrading it. You are going to run into a lot of issues and most of them will be nearly impossible to get around.

1.) Laptop hardware is incredibly expensive from an end user perspective.
2.) You will probably not find modern parts that will fir the chassis of your laptop.
3.) If you do find modern parts that fit the chassis your laptop was created with a certain heat dissipation in mind. The new parts would probably be a higher heat generation.
4.) If they did work from a heat generation perspective then you run into actually powering the new parts. They will probably need connectors that the current power supply is not capable of meeting.

You could probably get a faster Pentium 3 CPU or more ram and they would probably work but the gains would be modest at best. The ram might be a significant speed boost but you wont get much from a cpu standpoint. The graphics card might be up-gradable but even the best AGP card wont be worth getting in comparison to anything modern.

People don't usually upgrade laptops for very good reasons, any money you spend would be much better off on a new laptop rather than upgrading that one in any way.

If you were to do an upgrade I would look at something like an SSD. If your system has serial ata then it is probably compatible and would be able to be carried to a new system should you buy one down the road.
 
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