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Anonymous   06-21-2004 at 06:34:16 PM

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Hello,
I have an HP ze5375us. It has a P4 2.4ghz, a 40gig 4200rpm hard drive,
2 256mb PC2100 ram sticks (for a total of 512), and 64mb shared video ram.
Would I see better gains in gaming from changing the hard drive to a
5400rpm, or by changing one of the 256mb sticks for a 512mb stick, yielding
768mb ram, and thus giving me enough ram to up the shared video ram to
128mb? Also, how do I know what hard drives are compatible?
Thanks,
Richard

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Anonymous   06-21-2004 at 06:34:17 PM
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"marlinspike" <marlinspike@erols.com.nospam> wrote in
news:40d70e01$0$3019$61fed72c@news.rcn.com:

> Hello,
> I have an HP ze5375us. It has a P4 2.4ghz, a 40gig 4200rpm hard
> drive,
> 2 256mb PC2100 ram sticks (for a total of 512), and 64mb shared video
> ram. Would I see better gains in gaming from changing the hard drive
> to a 5400rpm, or by changing one of the 256mb sticks for a 512mb
> stick, yielding 768mb ram, and thus giving me enough ram to up the
> shared video ram to 128mb? Also, how do I know what hard drives are
> compatible? Thanks,
> Richard


RAM is the answer, by far. Disk speed will help you with nothing except
application start-up time, or recording video/audio.

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