Best Upgrades For Dell Inspirons

[Sbowyer28]

Hello everyone, My birthday is coming up on saturday and Im thinking bout dumping my money into parts to make my Peice o' crap 2006 dell inspiron 1525, Im searching on dell and at a budget of 250, Can anyone help me find what would help my laptop run better, Graphics card is Already picked out.

[Guest butt head]

as far as i know you cant upgrade a laptop so what do you mean all ready have a graphics card picked out if i cant even find laptop grade parts in the consumer market? if you want to upgrade your computer over time you need a desktop

heres a part list for a desktop if you want to look in to getting a new

Graphics Card 7770 http://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-11201-00-20G-Radeon-PCI-Express-Graphics/dp/B00782U10W/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1344534550&sr=1

i3 3220 you can find it

i5 3570 its better but if your buget was 250 for upgrades then it may be to much http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Core-i5-3570K-Quad-Core-Processor/dp/B007SZ0E1K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344535510&sr=

i3 2120 is a nother thing to consider http://www.amazon.com/Intel-i3-2120-Dual-Core-Processor-Cache/dp/B004KZDV8E/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1344535666&sr=1-1&keywords=i3

ram uhh just chose 8 or 4...

8 http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengeance-240-Pin-Platforms-CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9/dp/B004CRSM4I/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1344535865&sr=

4 http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengeance-PC3-12800-1600mHz-Platforms/dp/B004RFGALC/ref=sr_1_24?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1344535985&sr

hd 500gb-1tb

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Cache-Desktop/dp/B00461G3MS/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1344536097&sr

case these are 2 good options for a budget

http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-Elite-Window-RC-430-KWN1/dp/B003O8J11E/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1344536228&sr

http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-Tower-Case-RC-912-KKN1/dp/B003ZM7YTA/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1344536228&sr

[Sbowyer28]

I can take it to bout 400 lol, Just tryin to see what I can get on a lowish budget.

[Capt'n Skunky]

As a rule, laptops generally aren't that upgradeable like your standard desktop. Parts are very specific like the pieces of a puzzle in order to fit in such a small space.

Cheers!

Capt'n Skunky

KSP Community Manager

[Sbowyer28]

Ok might as well get a Desktop then, Probably just wait till I get bout 700 or 600$ maybe I can find a Good desktop =/

[bandit4910]

Ok might as well get a Desktop then, Probably just wait till I get bout 700 or 600$ maybe I can find a Good desktop =/

Whatever you do do not get a a Dell or alienware desktop. Alienware has been overpriced since dell has acquired it. You might be better off building a PC for gaming.

[Guest butt head]

Whatever you do do not get a a Dell or alienware desktop. Alienware has been overpriced since dell has acquired it. You might be better off building a PC for gaming.

apple is over priced to dont bother looking at it

(just adding that in)

http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/Gamer_Xtreme_1000/

http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/Gamer_Scorpius_8000/

heres 2 around 700$ that you can customize to your hearts delight

[OdinYggd]

Dell Inspiron 1525s are a good little laptop, as old as mine is she still has decent bang for the buck.

But yeah, other than adding RAM or a larger hard drive, for the most part laptops cannot be upgraded due to strict limits of size, temperature, and power consumption.

You should talk to a local computer shop. Most areas have a couple of little one and two man computer specialists that can custom build you the best value for your money, resulting in a system without the bloatware of the name brand builds and with far superior performance.

Though if you don't want to wait for a custom build, just make absolutely certain it has at least an Intel I3. Walmart in particular is still actively unloading AMD Semprons and Pentium Dual Core machines that are in fact leftover old systems that didn't sell yet because of the economic crash in 2008. They'll be no advantage over what you have now, so hold out for that I3 or I5 powered machine.

Also, if you can find one within your budget, try to get an NVidia GPU that supports PhysX. Kerbal takes advantage of PhysX for physics processing, having a GPU that supports it will make a tremendous performance boost.

[GOOMH]

Once you want something we can sort you out some parts if you go the build it yourself route but if you absolutely must have a pre-build we can help out there too.(Like the already mentioned Cyberpower still not as good value as build your own but better than most)