Hi Brian,A while back about 2 years ago you made video about Windows 10 search not working typing on the keyboard doesn't work,well thanks to you,I resolved it,thank you so much thank you very much I was getting a bit cranky with Windows 10 You are a lifesaver for solving problems thanks a million👍👍👌🤗🤗 I scored two computers from the dumpster I was quite lucky,Dell optiplex 790,i7, I don't know if you familiar of it, I fix them up I gave them a good clean and fresh terminal paste on the CPU,and I downloaded to Windows 10 to them. (my question is) I have an amplifier Denon, my amp is a bit old it's got no HDMI in the back of it but I have optical fibre and coaxial cable in the back of the amp,is there a sound card you recommend me to,that fits in the Dell case,I have two slots in the Dell computer one blue and black and video card I want to buy ,which one you recommend me as well with HDMI because I have a 65 inch 4k television that fits in the case as well, I am on a budget something not too fancy Thanks Brian regards John👌👍👍🙂
I upgraded my Samsung laptop that was over 8 years old at the time, with ram from 3GB to 8GB and ssd 500GB from the hdd of 320GB running Windows 10 and has improved it no end. Worth the small investment and far cheaper than replacing it.
Great video was a ways. The best upgrade you can make today is to put in a solid-state hard drive. I must do this at least five times a month for customers. They are amazed when they see how an old laptop or desktop comes back to life.
The SSD might have been a few seconds slower if you had installed all the apps that were on the old drive. I've done this on an old HP G56 laptop & installed Linux Mint, now it flies.
Yeah i was thinking the same thing, he shoulda cloned the drive for a fair test but still, woulda been 20s max anyway, my SSD which is filled with apps and files only takes 11s to boot.
@@Britec09 Yeah i gotcha plus even with those apps normally an SSD avg's a 10s boot time anyway cheap or not so it doesn't matter that much compared to a mechanical, well worth the upgrade. Turns old thought to be slow pc's into fast new pc's.
ThatBritishGuy I upgrade and fix systems with bad hard drives frequently. I would only clone the mechanical drive if there were unique apps that could not be reinstalled and that the customer could not live without. Much better to reinstall windows fresh. There is some much clutter in a system that was maybe upgraded from 7 to 10. Fresh installs and then copying user data to the new drive works the best in my experience. Been following Brian for a long time, great work!!
My wife has a Toshiba C655, a model from the same era and very similar to the one in the video. We went one step further and replaced the second-generation Core i3 for an i5 of the same TDP, installed an SSD and increased the RAM from 4 GB to 10 GB. It was noticeably much faster; she said it was like having a new machine. A lot of times, even old Core 2 laptops are useful if you just put in an SSD.
I have several business class laptops. Those things wear like iron. I increased the memory and installed SSDs in each one. I cloned Windows 7 onto the drives, but I'm considering Windows 10. If I go to Linux I might do Zorin OS.
[the different things to change or add so's to increase storage] Or, you could just get a larger SSD and still have the same storage as before without losing your optical drive or going to an add-on external.
He could have saved money on the RAM buying 4GB to bring it up to 8GB dual channel which at the same time given the igpu a +10% boost in dual channel, plus now there would be enough system RAM for the igpu to borrow the maximum 2GB. The igpu can't borrow RAM that the CPU is using! The money saved would put you close to a 1TB SSD.
Hello Brian, Great to hear you laugh, need to have fun with it as well.Your killing me with that C2 Pro camera just sitting there on your desk, could really make use of it inside my soon to purchcase RV
Thanks for the tutorial. Can the caddy be used in a dual boot situation as a second OS? Also, will it take a performance hit? I am guessing it will not be DMA on the caddy drive?
I just upgraded , 3 dell laptops and the SSD upgrade was the best, all running win 10 from win 7.....also watched a lot of your vlogs and they are really informative. The use of 12 GB of Ram in the I 5 was great, I will put 12 GB in the one I have that's running 8 GB now, also did a 10 year old dell 1545 to max 4 GB ram and SSD it boots in 30 seconds......Thanks for the tec support Brit we'll be watching from USA
well this was never a scientific test, just a basic test showing the difference and even if I did you both hands, it still would not be a accurate test lol
Crazy difference. I have an HP Pavilion M6-1040eo laptop from August 2012 with an AMD Quad core A10 CPU 3,2 MHz, a dedicated Radeon GPU (2 GB), 16 GB of RAM (DDR3-1600 MHz). Just bought a Samsung EVO 1 TB SSD which I will put in it. It will be exiting to see the difference in speed. Thanks for a great video!
i have to say this though, i got an old laptop, just simply wiping everything thats on it and reinstall a clean version of windows drastically speeds up the computer, from 5-10 minutes it took to open a single file to only taking 5-10 seconds to open, i plan on upgrading and fixing it up as some components are damaged, and make a good media device out of it, thank you for your video~
It isn't just how long it takes to get to the desktop. It's how long it takes to get to a USABLE desktop. I just finished working on a friends laptop of similar vintage to this one and the CPU was pegged at 90% or higher for 15 minutes at startup and the hard drive was pegged at 100% for 45 minutes doing all of the crap that Windows 10 does in the background (checking for updates, telemetry, etc.). The only two programs that start with Windows (aside with what Windows itself start) were Unchecky and Classic Shell. Even disabling them didn't make any difference in how long it takes for the hard drive to stop thrashing about. Cloned the spinning rust to an SSD and it only took about 5 minutes for the CPU and Drive to finish all of the background crap and drop to normal idle. She's very happy now.
@@Britec09 It's not that she loves Windows (she actually doesn't), but the Church software she uses will not run on Linux so she has to use it. Anf no, they won't run properly (if at all) with WINE and there are no viable Linux alternatives. I know as I've tried.
I have an old Dell laptop with 4GB of RAM (DDR3) and I was able to salvage another 4GB stick of RAM (DDR3) from a dead laptop. I believe the brands of RAM are different. If the brands are different, would I still be able to use the 4GB RAM I salvaged in the working laptop, so as to bump up the amount of RAM to 8GB ?
Yay for you! A million thanks and internet points, you guys! I had set a walking desk on my treadmill because I love playing games but they don't leave me time to do sport... It was great to be playing Civilization and find out I'd been walking for three hours without noticing! However, I REALLY miss WOW and was yearning to play again. When I looked at the gaming laptop prices I ran away in fear. So, on an upgrading we will go! And to make things even better, my old laptop is also a Toshiba that came with the same Windows. Yay! Thank you for the savings. Will have a look at your store, you deserve it!
Hi great vid, do you prefer to wipe all the manufacturers software and just let W10 do it's thing? Most migrate the old software from the old drive to the new drive do you think this is unnecessary more hard work if you are doing a fresh install? Cheers
I upgraded my old Acer laptop with a 240GB ssd replacing the 500GB Hd. Wow! Before the upgrade it took minutes to become usable but now about 30 seconds with Win10 upgrade. Cost about USD $30. Now that same drive jumped to $36. I'm in the process of upgrading my Dell 5770 to a m.2 NVME 500GB. Waiting on the drive from Amazon. I'll review your video on Macrium Reflect to transfer the OS. Presently this Dell takes forever to boot up W10Pro. I just hope the Windows updates don't break it again! I did put those on hold and hopefully that will solve that problem! Update! I got my m.2 nvme ssd today. I installed it and used Macrium reflect free to put it on that ssd and changed the boot order. I can't believe that it actually worked (it took about an hour to copy). Now instead of minutes it boots up in about 30 seconds. It turned a snail into a rabbit! Thanks!
Thanks Brian. You rock. I have replaced mechanical drives on both my wife’s laptop and mine with ssds. Much improved and indeed cheaper than buying a new laptop. Where can I find the hard drive holder to replace the dvd ?
Great video. I acquired a non working Satellite, which turned out the cpu burned out. Put in an i3 and with 6gb memory and a 240gb ssd, its tip top now.
About 3 years ago I bought a Fujitsu i3 laptop for £260, paid an extra £15 to take it from 4GB to 8GB of RAM and replaced the 500GB HDD with a 240GB SSD I had lying around. Similar results to yours, night and day.
I myself am typing on a 2011 Dell 14z I hung onto just because it has a metal casing. I threw a SSD into it and it rocks. I laugh when my missus goes through a new laptop a year.
Hi! I made an upgrade in one Toshiba satellite c850d-125. A4-4300apu to A10-4600apu, 2 disks (SSD 240gb+500gb). 8gb ddr3. Works like a charm. Only one issue, the battery can't hold the work of 2 disks, and shutdown. Thanks
Cool Brian - FYI, It looks like your links to the memory chip (Crucial 8GB Single DDR3/DDR3L 1600 MT/S (PC3-12800) Unbuffered SODIMM 204-Pin Memory) are reversed; the link to Amazon UK is to the US and the link to Amazon US is to the UK.
I have partially upgraded my Toshiba Satellite L450-136 with an SSD drive and Windows 10 but I was told I would not be able to upgrade the 3gb RAM (which is currently installed).... can you confirm this or can I upgrade the RAM? Oh and a rather aged Intel® Celeron® Processor 900.... any hope for this old stager?
Possibly it was running Windows 32 bit and they meant it wouldn't be able to address more than 3 and a fraction GB of RAM? The cure is windows 64 bit if that's the case. Look and see which version 32/64 bit you are running. Microsoft doesn't care which you run, your key is good for either of 32/64 bit. Hope this helps.
I just replaced the drive in my C855 (Sandybridge i3) to an SSD. I went from a Seagate 500GB 7200RPM to the Samsung EVO 860 500GB. Cloned the contents, and it's like night an day when it comes to the boot time. Next upgrade is the CPU, going to replace the i3-2370m with an i5-2540m. I already researched and the board in this model supports the 2540m with no modifications. I use this system primarily for data backup and recovery.
I have an old 2006 model Acer Aspire A9324 desktop pc powered by AMD Athlon 64 processor the hard drive is not functioning as it is having bad sectors.I want to change the old hard drive with SSD hard drive.I would like to know whether the mother board support SSD hard drive.
Hi Brian I don't have Windows 10 on a USB but the computer I have an old Asus I have already added Windows 10. Does it go back to default automatically when you do this and would that mean I would have to purchase Windows 10 then? Also can you do this with a desktop computer?
Thank you for sharing. I have a Fujitsu running on Windows 7 Japanese and it is slow. I would like to upgrade to the latest Windows. Do you have any advise. I am also concern how am I going to get the drivers installed
I Scored an O'l School, Dell Latitude d630 on eBay for $21 USD including delivery! Dropped in a 248gb SSD ($28) from MicroCenter.com, & 4gb of ram (eBay) off a slow boat from China, & loaded a bootleg copy of Win10 Pro! She's built like a Tank & as thick as a phonebook, but she Runs like a Champ!
I got a 2015 HP ProBook with a 3rd Generation i5 processor I guess it's 2 cores 4 threads and I just put a name brand a Kingston 500 gig SSD with 16 gigs of high-speed Kingston Ram and it all brand new in my HP ProBook with Windows 10 don't even boot up that quick I'm about 30 seconds but I got Windows 10 Pro on it too so maybe that makes a difference any suggestions
Ali, he is correct about it not being upgradeable. I think he's wrong about the HD 4000 being a weak link. HD4k is actually a strong integrated igpu at 720P that it was designed for! Most of the laptops from this time had 1366 X 768 screens. I can play games on my laptop at 1366x768 native at medium or 720P high without stutter. I have the i3 3110M 2.4ghz HD4000 which borrows 2.16GB of ram. The HD4000 is about +10% more powerful if you have balanced RAM, 4+4, 8+8. I would have chucked another 4GB stick of ram in so you could have dual channel. 12GB would probably let you have more tabs open before you slow down but 8GB would let you have about 20 tabs open. You should be able to play most games up to about 2011. HD4000 supports DirectX 11, you just have to turn graphics settings down a little until it plays well. BioShock is on my laptop. I have extra extended run 9cell batteries and I play BioShock when the power goes out. Optimized, the HD4000 beats a GTX 660. You have to have enough ram, running in dual channel for the integrated graphics to borrow. 4+4 should be enough for the integrated graphics to borrow the maximum of 2GB. Got to remember that HD4000 used to be found in Macs. HD4000 has gotten a bad rap in my opinion because it isn't understood. Of course it performs poorly in a laptop with 4GB of single channel ram! It can't borrow enough virtual RAM to run a game if the CPU is using it! It won't play recent AAA titles at high, good looking resolutions, but neither will a discrete GTX 1030, you still have to turn down the resolution. There are mods like removing water effects or shadows that will let fairly weak graphics play games they otherwise wouldn't. There's videos on TH-cam for low spec gaming. You do need enough dual channel RAM, but it's not as bad as people say. Stay away from titles like ROTTR which you probably could play at 640X480, but it wouldn't look good. BioShock, BioShock 2 and infinite should be playable. I hope this helps.
Great video mate. Though you may not be monitoring comments now however, if you can provide some advice to me, it would be appreciated. I have a 3rd generation i5 CPU at 1.7Ghz and was trying to edit h264 and hevc/h264 video. I believe 6th generation Intel CPUs onwards are able to do that. Is it possible to upgrade old i5 CPU with later generation CPU or are pin configuration now different. As said, any advice would be appreciated. Thank you. Rick.
surprised you didn't clone the drive, but ya my sister had a laptop & those things came with the slowest dive in them 5400 RPM this was back when SSDs were pricy so I threw in a 7200 RPM drive & made a massive improvement
Having an ordinary HDD on any laptop is now an old fashion and i know this from like spending my whole life with PC . The start up and the files on the C or the OS partition makes a lot of influence in starting up or the shut down of a PC. It is a real boost when put more RAM with an SSD as much of boost lead the laptop to run faster. The clone as most said about. It can be useful only if the same Disk storage are alike if i am not mistaken. But missed watching your videos and way to go.
I have got old toshiba satellite a500-17x laptop, I can only upgrade it to 8GB and I can't upgrade more than that. So I'm thinking about upgrade the motherboard, CPU and RAM but the problem is I would not be able to change the RAM, hard drive on the laptop bottom base and I would not be able to change the battery if I upgrade the motherboard. Can you help me with what I need to do before I start doing it??
This is exactly what I did with my HP 8460P. Swapped the 250GB hard drive with a 250GB SSD. That alone decreased Windows boot time! Upgraded 4GB to 6GB of memory (will make it 8GB soon).Swapped the optical drive out for a 1TB hard drive (for dual boot Linux Mint and storage) Upgraded the Intel Core i5-2520M (dual core) to i7 2760QM (quad core). It's a great machine now! These HP Elitebooks are easy to upgrade as there's just one panel to remove.
@6:12, it's the RANDOM read and writes that is where the HDD greatly struggles, not at the sequential. Britech, you should have let the test finish to show how low the random read and writes are
On some PCs you can upgrade to a dual core processor. Granted you're going to have to do your homework. The best reassurance is finding a mention in a forum from someone who did the same thing on your model and use the exact CPU they did.
Hi, I recently upgraded an older HP laptop. It had two bays internally so I was able to install an SSD alongside my 1Tb HDD. I also doubled the ram to 16gb but I am still experiencing issues which seems to be down to the onboard graphics. It has windows 10 installed and office 2010. I have been told there is no way to upgrade the onboard graphics. Any alternative suggestions on how I could improve the graphics performance?
Does not having a high end processor really mean anything? I've been digging into my old laptop the past 2 weeks and it has a Pentium® P6200 Processor. I'm worried it might need to be in for an upgrade.
how much can i push it, i have i5 4th gen dell , going to upgrade it with 240gb SSD and 8Gb ram(that's its max) intotal. I want to run a bit of autocad and photoshop and a bit of adobe premier is it possible.
@@Ograws Amen to that..! I once made a diskless old Dell run from a Puppy loaded flash drive for about a year until the owner decided to spring for a new box.
Great video Brian gonna do this on my wifes lap top but it ia a hp and all the case needs splitting not as eay aswhen you have the trap doors ....Thanks for the inspiration
Great Video Brian, I would love to do this to my Lenovo laptop..will this work on any laptop? Or does it have to be an i5? What was your total cost for all of these upgrades? US dollars please and thank you sir..
Basically yes, I have an older processor than what he has and it works fine. Cost? Depends on what brands you buy. My SSD is a 525gb crucial and that was $100, things are so much cheaper.
not really an apples to apples comparison, a fresh install of windows 10 against an install with apps and taskbar duties. Not to mention your wifi load up. SSDs are a massive upgrade and run much faster than HHDs.
Really? so how much time would I save by removing some apps? oh and I guess that would make the drive speed faster then 95 and bring it up to 500+ I don't think so. Its as good a example as your going to get. The laptop is brought second hand and wipe with fresh install and I added camtasia studio, zonealarm, getdataback aida64 and cryatal disk, most of these do even load at startup. So it a apples to apples comparison. Jesus.
@@Britec09 don't take criticism very well do you? I was just saying that the load outs were not as big as you let on...... I have and run a computer repair and assembly business so I know the stats. It was just constructive criticism not an attack. In the interest of fairness and clarity. Now knowing you can NOT take ANY criticism this will be the last video of yours I watch, much less subscribe to. Have a lovely day. And my name is Dave not Jesus!!! lol
@@robertkubrick3738 I found a way. Need to remove the top of the panel (with the keyboard). Indeed, I can upgrade CPU - the processor is in the socket (Alienware). *Thank You, Robert!*
How do I find out if my board will accept a memory upgrade. I tried on my older PC going from 4 to 8 GB of ram and fried my mother board. Had to by another PC. With my current one I just added my 1tb ssd but wanted to make sure about ram.
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Hi Brian,A while back about 2 years ago you made video about Windows 10 search not working typing on the keyboard doesn't work,well thanks to you,I resolved it,thank you so much thank you very much I was getting a bit cranky with Windows 10
You are a lifesaver for solving problems thanks a million👍👍👌🤗🤗
I scored two computers from the dumpster I was quite lucky,Dell optiplex 790,i7, I don't know if you familiar of it, I fix them up I gave them a good clean and fresh terminal paste on the CPU,and I downloaded to Windows 10 to them. (my question is)
I have an amplifier Denon, my amp is a bit old it's got no HDMI in the back of it but I have optical fibre and coaxial cable in the back of the amp,is there a sound card you recommend me to,that fits in the Dell case,I have two slots in the Dell computer one blue and black and video card I want to buy ,which one you recommend me as well with HDMI because I have a 65 inch 4k television that fits in the case as well, I am on a budget something not too fancy
Thanks Brian regards John👌👍👍🙂
I upgraded my Samsung laptop that was over 8 years old at the time, with ram from 3GB to 8GB and ssd 500GB from the hdd of 320GB running Windows 10 and has improved it no end. Worth the small investment and far cheaper than replacing it.
Swapping out a HDD for a SSD makes a bit of difference, Good video on giving new life to a old computer. 👍
Thanks
What is the difference between SSD and HDD?
BIEFxMASTER ssd is a bit more expensive then a HDD but ssd is so much faster.
Great video was a ways. The best upgrade you can make today is to put in a solid-state hard drive. I must do this at least five times a month for customers. They are amazed when they see how an old laptop or desktop comes back to life.
Yeah people are to quick to buy new laptop, when sometimes a simple upgrade is all it needs.
I literally just upgraded my nephew's laptop last night, cloning the old drive and all
Yeah not much point cloning this drive, nothing on it I needed.
I cloned my old laptop. It’s way faster. Also moved most of my important files and pictures to an external hard drive
The SSD might have been a few seconds slower if you had installed all the apps that were on the old drive. I've done this on an old HP G56 laptop & installed Linux Mint, now it flies.
Not a lot of apps installed
Yeah i was thinking the same thing, he shoulda cloned the drive for a fair test but still, woulda been 20s max anyway, my SSD which is filled with apps and files only takes 11s to boot.
This previous install was virtually a fresh install, apart from about 5 apps
@@Britec09 Yeah i gotcha plus even with those apps normally an SSD avg's a 10s boot time anyway cheap or not so it doesn't matter that much compared to a mechanical, well worth the upgrade.
Turns old thought to be slow pc's into fast new pc's.
ThatBritishGuy I upgrade and fix systems with bad hard drives frequently. I would only clone the mechanical drive if there were unique apps that could not be reinstalled and that the customer could not live without. Much better to reinstall windows fresh. There is some much clutter in a system that was maybe upgraded from 7 to 10. Fresh installs and then copying user data to the new drive works the best in my experience.
Been following Brian for a long time, great work!!
I like buying second had laptop or desktops and upgrading them for their maximum performance. Giving a second chance of life, well done Brian. 👍
Thanks
Then delete windows and install Linux. lol
I like to run Manjaro XFCE or KDE for Linux, they are more stable than Ubuntu.
My wife has a Toshiba C655, a model from the same era and very similar to the one in the video. We went one step further and replaced the second-generation Core i3 for an i5 of the same TDP, installed an SSD and increased the RAM from 4 GB to 10 GB. It was noticeably much faster; she said it was like having a new machine. A lot of times, even old Core 2 laptops are useful if you just put in an SSD.
I have an old Toshiba laptop duo core 2 and upgraded too, it's awesome! Laptop is 9 yrs old. Thanks I enjoy your vids. And I dual boot 😁
I have several business class laptops. Those things wear like iron. I increased the memory and installed SSDs in each one. I cloned Windows 7 onto the drives, but I'm considering Windows 10. If I go to Linux I might do Zorin OS.
Zorin OS is awesome as well as Linux Mint.
@@jimbcanine Damn right! I have used both and they are a great OS to use. Zorin is a softer touch out of the gate and i loved the settings.
I've done similar stuff with my workhorse Samsung 200B. Very, very pleased. A iTb SSD and Windows 7, it flies for the stuff I do.
SSD gave a new breath to my 2009 laptop with 4GB RAM and Windows 10, and it is working very well, even to use havier apps like Autocad and QGIS.
I see you included the US and UK Amazon sites. Awesome dude. Love your Linux walk through videos.
Great info Bri. Fantastic improvement.
Thanks Daz
WoW!, what a speed improvement, great video Brian. Thank you.
Cheers, glad you liked it.
Good example on how to revitalize an older laptop.
Huge difference! Well done, Brian.
Thanks
Struggling to open the optical drive screw seems to have been welded shut but never mind!
Very informative tutorial thanks :)
I just upgraded a old Acer extensa 7620 - 4gb ram and 500gb ssd with Windows 10 - it works fine ☺ boot time 25 sec
Nice
Love the how to videos, thanks for posting 👍
You're welcome Stephen
[the different things to change or add so's to increase storage]
Or, you could just get a larger SSD and still have the same storage as before without losing your optical drive or going to an add-on external.
Yeah you got options
He could have saved money on the RAM buying 4GB to bring it up to 8GB dual channel which at the same time given the igpu a +10% boost in dual channel, plus now there would be enough system RAM for the igpu to borrow the maximum 2GB. The igpu can't borrow RAM that the CPU is using! The money saved would put you close to a 1TB SSD.
Saved this video to the hard drive. Thanks Brian!!!
Hello Brian, Great to hear you laugh, need to have fun with it as well.Your killing me with that C2 Pro camera just sitting there on your desk, could really make use of it inside my soon to purchcase RV
I can sort one of them cameras out for you Rob
Truly? That would be very appreciated, I'd be in your debt.
Nice work Brian.
Thanks Kev
Thanks for the tutorial. Can the caddy be used in a dual boot situation as a second OS? Also, will it take a performance hit? I am guessing it will not be DMA on the caddy drive?
I just upgraded , 3 dell laptops and the SSD upgrade was the best, all running win 10 from win 7.....also watched a lot of your vlogs and they are really informative. The use of 12 GB of Ram in the I 5 was great, I will put 12 GB in the one I have that's running 8 GB now, also did a 10 year old dell 1545 to max 4 GB ram and SSD it boots in 30 seconds......Thanks for the tec support Brit we'll be watching from USA
We have 3 c2d laptops with ssd's running linux mint.
I can download the ISO, install, and update them in about 40 minutes, tops.
Nice
Great video. A small suggestion when comparing seconds. Use 2 hands, power on the 2 devices simultaneously☺
well this was never a scientific test, just a basic test showing the difference and even if I did you both hands, it still would not be a accurate test lol
Crazy difference. I have an HP Pavilion M6-1040eo laptop from August 2012 with an AMD Quad core A10 CPU 3,2 MHz, a dedicated Radeon GPU (2 GB), 16 GB of RAM (DDR3-1600 MHz). Just bought a Samsung EVO 1 TB SSD which I will put in it. It will be exiting to see the difference in speed. Thanks for a great video!
You should've tested with the same apps (that you'll use) installed for an accurate test.
OMG really? it had about 3 to 5 apps install on a fresh install on that laptop, I got it the other day. No difference whats so ever.
i have to say this though, i got an old laptop, just simply wiping everything thats on it and reinstall a clean version of windows drastically speeds up the computer, from 5-10 minutes it took to open a single file to only taking 5-10 seconds to open, i plan on upgrading and fixing it up as some components are damaged, and make a good media device out of it, thank you for your video~
It isn't just how long it takes to get to the desktop. It's how long it takes to get to a USABLE desktop. I just finished working on a friends laptop of similar vintage to this one and the CPU was pegged at 90% or higher for 15 minutes at startup and the hard drive was pegged at 100% for 45 minutes doing all of the crap that Windows 10 does in the background (checking for updates, telemetry, etc.). The only two programs that start with Windows (aside with what Windows itself start) were Unchecky and Classic Shell. Even disabling them didn't make any difference in how long it takes for the hard drive to stop thrashing about. Cloned the spinning rust to an SSD and it only took about 5 minutes for the CPU and Drive to finish all of the background crap and drop to normal idle. She's very happy now.
Yeah its a great way to boost performance, Linux would be even faster.
@@Britec09 Linux is not an option for her. She absolutely has to run Windows due to the software that is required for her job.
Yeah some people love windows and have to have windows
@@Britec09 It's not that she loves Windows (she actually doesn't), but the Church software she uses will not run on Linux so she has to use it. Anf no, they won't run properly (if at all) with WINE and there are no viable Linux alternatives. I know as I've tried.
Britec the hammer man tech great anger management lol keep them videos coming see you are doing more real time videos
Now and then, like to mix it up
I have an old Dell laptop with 4GB of RAM (DDR3) and I was able to salvage another 4GB stick of RAM (DDR3) from a dead laptop. I believe the brands of RAM are different. If the brands are different, would I still be able to use the 4GB RAM I salvaged in the working laptop, so as to bump up the amount of RAM to 8GB ?
Yes it should be fine, mix and match does work as long as the motherboard can handle more than 4GB, should be OK
Nicely done Brian, some techs would take 3 or 4 hours off our lives explaining that 😃
Yay for you! A million thanks and internet points, you guys! I had set a walking desk on my treadmill because I love playing games but they don't leave me time to do sport... It was great to be playing Civilization and find out I'd been walking for three hours without noticing! However, I REALLY miss WOW and was yearning to play again. When I looked at the gaming laptop prices I ran away in fear. So, on an upgrading we will go! And to make things even better, my old laptop is also a Toshiba that came with the same Windows. Yay! Thank you for the savings. Will have a look at your store, you deserve it!
Nice walkthrough
Thanks for sharing😀👍
You're welcome.
Very nice video britec
Anther great video m8 thanks smashed that like buddy
You're welcome.
Hi great vid, do you prefer to wipe all the manufacturers software and just let W10 do it's thing? Most migrate the old software from the old drive to the new drive do you think this is unnecessary more hard work if you are doing a fresh install? Cheers
It was pretty much a new install on that laptop when I got it, just one or two programs, so fresh install was quicker.
Sweet!...I'd like to do this with my Leveno ALL IN ONE...do you have a vid that addresses that machine?
Nope, but it would be the same process.
Another great video and would be much cheaper than buying a new laptop.Don
Yeah and these i5 are pretty good CPU
I upgraded my old Acer laptop with a 240GB ssd replacing the 500GB Hd. Wow! Before the upgrade it took minutes to become usable but now about 30 seconds with Win10 upgrade. Cost about USD $30. Now that same drive jumped to $36. I'm in the process of upgrading my Dell 5770 to a m.2 NVME 500GB. Waiting on the drive from Amazon. I'll review your video on Macrium Reflect to transfer the OS. Presently this Dell takes forever to boot up W10Pro. I just hope the Windows updates don't break it again! I did put those on hold and hopefully that will solve that problem!
Update! I got my m.2 nvme ssd today. I installed it and used Macrium reflect free to put it on that ssd and changed the boot order.
I can't believe that it actually worked (it took about an hour to copy). Now instead of minutes it boots up in about 30 seconds. It turned a snail into a rabbit! Thanks!
I believe would be better for the SSD to use an HDD for the data and the SSD for System and Applications, what say you?
Thanks Brian. You rock. I have replaced mechanical drives on both my wife’s laptop and mine with ssds. Much improved and indeed cheaper than buying a new laptop. Where can I find the hard drive holder to replace the dvd ?
You can find it as HDD caddy
Great video, but could I ask, is this stuff possible to do on a 5 year old hp pavilion notebook? 👍
This is amazing, gonna try this out on my dad's laptop. Thank you
Great video. I acquired a non working Satellite, which turned out the cpu burned out. Put in an i3 and with 6gb memory and a 240gb ssd, its tip top now.
About 3 years ago I bought a Fujitsu i3 laptop for £260, paid an extra £15 to take it from 4GB to 8GB of RAM and replaced the 500GB HDD with a 240GB SSD I had lying around. Similar results to yours, night and day.
Yeah super fast upgrade
@@Britec09 with ssd you don't have to worry if you accidentaly drop the laptop (from little height :D)
Balanced dual channel ram makes the igpu work about 10% better, not to mention the igpu can at 8GB system ram borrow enough RAM to work.
Great video Brian! Any chance I could do something similar with my 12 year old Dell XPS Desktop? It has one of the earliest i7s in it .
Yes, it will make it a lot faster.
I myself am typing on a 2011 Dell 14z I hung onto just because it has a metal casing. I threw a SSD into it and it rocks. I laugh when my missus goes through a new laptop a year.
Yeah still worth upgrading
Hi! I made an upgrade in one Toshiba satellite c850d-125. A4-4300apu to A10-4600apu, 2 disks (SSD 240gb+500gb). 8gb ddr3. Works like a charm. Only one issue, the battery can't hold the work of 2 disks, and shutdown. Thanks
Dell Vostro 2520 here.
Hi Brian, how can I check the maximum amount of memory that my old laptop supports?
Hey! I live in Finland, is there a way to get these parts in Finland? I really want to upgrade my crappy old laptop. Thanks (:
Cool Brian - FYI, It looks like your links to the memory chip (Crucial 8GB Single DDR3/DDR3L 1600 MT/S (PC3-12800) Unbuffered SODIMM 204-Pin Memory) are reversed; the link to Amazon UK is to the US and the link to Amazon US is to the UK.
Thanks I will sort it.
I have partially upgraded my Toshiba Satellite L450-136 with an SSD drive and Windows 10 but I was told I would not be able to upgrade the 3gb RAM (which is currently installed).... can you confirm this or can I upgrade the RAM? Oh and a rather aged Intel® Celeron® Processor 900.... any hope for this old stager?
Possibly it was running Windows 32 bit and they meant it wouldn't be able to address more than 3 and a fraction GB of RAM? The cure is windows 64 bit if that's the case. Look and see which version 32/64 bit you are running. Microsoft doesn't care which you run, your key is good for either of 32/64 bit. Hope this helps.
I just replaced the drive in my C855 (Sandybridge i3) to an SSD. I went from a Seagate 500GB 7200RPM to the Samsung EVO 860 500GB. Cloned the contents, and it's like night an day when it comes to the boot time. Next upgrade is the CPU, going to replace the i3-2370m with an i5-2540m. I already researched and the board in this model supports the 2540m with no modifications.
I use this system primarily for data backup and recovery.
ssd surely makes a big different on my hp laptop big time ty ty
I have an old 2006 model Acer Aspire A9324 desktop pc powered by AMD Athlon 64 processor the hard drive is not functioning as it is having bad sectors.I want to change the old hard drive with SSD hard drive.I would like to know whether the mother board support SSD hard drive.
My old Toshiba Satellite P505-S8980 has a Intel Core 2 Duo. Is it still worth it? I miss my 18.4 inch display.
Hi Brian I don't have Windows 10 on a USB but the computer I have an old Asus I have already added Windows 10. Does it go back to default automatically when you do this and would that mean I would have to purchase Windows 10 then? Also can you do this with a desktop computer?
That’s not an old laptop.
Install a GNU os. Much more powerful and secure
Thank You!!!
Thank you for sharing. I have a Fujitsu running on Windows 7 Japanese and it is slow. I would like to upgrade to the latest Windows.
Do you have any advise. I am also concern how am I going to get the drivers installed
I Scored an O'l School, Dell Latitude d630 on eBay for $21 USD including delivery! Dropped in a 248gb SSD ($28) from MicroCenter.com, & 4gb of ram (eBay) off a slow boat from China, & loaded a bootleg copy of Win10 Pro! She's built like a Tank & as thick as a phonebook, but she Runs like a Champ!
I got a 2015 HP ProBook with a 3rd Generation i5 processor I guess it's 2 cores 4 threads and I just put a name brand a Kingston 500 gig SSD with 16 gigs of high-speed Kingston Ram and it all brand new in my HP ProBook with Windows 10 don't even boot up that quick I'm about 30 seconds but I got Windows 10 Pro on it too so maybe that makes a difference any suggestions
is there any chance to upgrade the intel HD 4000 as well?
it's not possible.
Ali, he is correct about it not being upgradeable. I think he's wrong about the HD 4000 being a weak link. HD4k is actually a strong integrated igpu at 720P that it was designed for! Most of the laptops from this time had 1366 X 768 screens. I can play games on my laptop at 1366x768 native at medium or 720P high without stutter. I have the i3 3110M 2.4ghz HD4000 which borrows 2.16GB of ram. The HD4000 is about +10% more powerful if you have balanced RAM, 4+4, 8+8. I would have chucked another 4GB stick of ram in so you could have dual channel. 12GB would probably let you have more tabs open before you slow down but 8GB would let you have about 20 tabs open. You should be able to play most games up to about 2011. HD4000 supports DirectX 11, you just have to turn graphics settings down a little until it plays well. BioShock is on my laptop. I have extra extended run 9cell batteries and I play BioShock when the power goes out. Optimized, the HD4000 beats a GTX 660. You have to have enough ram, running in dual channel for the integrated graphics to borrow. 4+4 should be enough for the integrated graphics to borrow the maximum of 2GB. Got to remember that HD4000 used to be found in Macs. HD4000 has gotten a bad rap in my opinion because it isn't understood. Of course it performs poorly in a laptop with 4GB of single channel ram! It can't borrow enough virtual RAM to run a game if the CPU is using it! It won't play recent AAA titles at high, good looking resolutions, but neither will a discrete GTX 1030, you still have to turn down the resolution. There are mods like removing water effects or shadows that will let fairly weak graphics play games they otherwise wouldn't. There's videos on TH-cam for low spec gaming. You do need enough dual channel RAM, but it's not as bad as people say. Stay away from titles like ROTTR which you probably could play at 640X480, but it wouldn't look good. BioShock, BioShock 2 and infinite should be playable. I hope this helps.
Great video mate. Though you may not be monitoring comments now however, if you can provide some advice to me, it would be appreciated. I have a 3rd generation i5 CPU at 1.7Ghz and was trying to edit h264 and hevc/h264 video. I believe 6th generation Intel CPUs onwards are able to do that. Is it possible to upgrade old i5 CPU with later generation CPU or are pin configuration now different. As said, any advice would be appreciated. Thank you. Rick.
surprised you didn't clone the drive, but ya my sister had a laptop & those things came with the slowest dive in them 5400 RPM this was back when SSDs were pricy so I threw in a 7200 RPM drive & made a massive improvement
Did not need to clone the drive, it was a fresh install, it only had 3 or 4 programs on it.
Having an ordinary HDD on any laptop is now an old fashion and i know this from like spending my whole life with PC . The start up and the files on the C or the OS partition makes a lot of influence in starting up or the shut down of a PC. It is a real boost when put more RAM with an SSD as much of boost lead the laptop to run faster. The clone as most said about. It can be useful only if the same Disk storage are alike if i am not mistaken. But missed watching your videos and way to go.
I have got old toshiba satellite a500-17x laptop, I can only upgrade it to 8GB and I can't upgrade more than that. So I'm thinking about upgrade the motherboard, CPU and RAM but the problem is I would not be able to change the RAM, hard drive on the laptop bottom base and I would not be able to change the battery if I upgrade the motherboard. Can you help me with what I need to do before I start doing it??
Will these parts work for hp dv4 AMD turion x2?
This is exactly what I did with my HP 8460P. Swapped the 250GB hard drive with a 250GB SSD. That alone decreased Windows boot time! Upgraded 4GB to 6GB of memory (will make it 8GB soon).Swapped the optical drive out for a 1TB hard drive (for dual boot Linux Mint and storage) Upgraded the Intel Core i5-2520M (dual core) to i7 2760QM (quad core). It's a great machine now! These HP Elitebooks are easy to upgrade as there's just one panel to remove.
Did you ground yourselve in anyway? And if you did please tell me how
@6:12, it's the RANDOM read and writes that is where the HDD greatly struggles, not at the sequential. Britech, you should have let the test finish to show how low the random read and writes are
There's not much hope for a PC with a single-core processor (although I use one with XP + a very light AV!), but a dual core one is worthwhile.
On some PCs you can upgrade to a dual core processor. Granted you're going to have to do your homework. The best reassurance is finding a mention in a forum from someone who did the same thing on your model and use the exact CPU they did.
Thanks Brian
You're welcome Wayne
Thanks Mr. B..
Hi, I recently upgraded an older HP laptop. It had two bays internally so I was able to install an SSD alongside my 1Tb HDD. I also doubled the ram to 16gb but I am still experiencing issues which seems to be down to the onboard graphics. It has windows 10 installed and office 2010. I have been told there is no way to upgrade the onboard graphics. Any alternative suggestions on how I could improve the graphics performance?
I have a Core2Duo HP Dv7 Pavilion
Should I upgrade it with good processor and RAM, fan etc?
can put geforce 960 in to dell notebook laptop?
How much cost the SSD and 16gb ram 2400mhz for laptop?
Does not having a high end processor really mean anything? I've been digging into my old laptop the past 2 weeks and it has a Pentium® P6200 Processor. I'm worried it might need to be in for an upgrade.
Eggplantman21 Some older computers won't run Windows 10. You should make sure it does before you try to upgrade.
It runs Windows 10 as smooth as it can, however there is just a lot of waiting time.
how much can i push it, i have i5 4th gen dell , going to upgrade it with 240gb SSD and 8Gb ram(that's its max) intotal. I want to run a bit of autocad and photoshop and a bit of adobe premier is it possible.
hey Brian,why not use some paper masking tape on your labels,cheers
As mentioned in the video, could not be bothered to get it lol
Install Lubuntu on an SSD and watch the machine sing. That's what I did with an old 32-bit netbook.
Yeah I may do Linux on this little laptop
And then with a light weight Linux distro, he wouldn't even need the upgrade.
Try Puppy Linux and you'll have a computer more powerful than IBM Watson
@@Ograws Amen to that..! I once made a diskless old Dell run from a Puppy loaded flash drive for about a year until the owner decided to spring for a new box.
Great Video Britech. I'm about to do the same thing to my Toshiba Satellite going to 8 gigs of ram and a 512 hp ssd.
Great video Brian gonna do this on my wifes lap top but it ia a hp and all the case needs splitting not as eay aswhen you have the trap doors ....Thanks for the inspiration
I got DELL PRESICION and thank you for helping me
How did you get the desktop to load without typing in your Windows password/pin during boot up?
Hey Brian, What model is the Toshiba Laptop?
Think its toshiba c855
Great Video Brian, I would love to do this to my Lenovo laptop..will this work on any laptop? Or does it have to be an i5?
What was your total cost for all of these upgrades? US dollars please and thank you sir..
Basically yes, I have an older processor than what he has and it works fine. Cost? Depends on what brands you buy. My SSD is a 525gb crucial and that was $100, things are so much cheaper.
i know im late but does a 256GB silicon power ssd work?? cuz i want something less than 35$
Is windows 10 recommended or required?
not really an apples to apples comparison, a fresh install of windows 10 against an install with apps and taskbar duties. Not to mention your wifi load up. SSDs are a massive upgrade and run much faster than HHDs.
Really? so how much time would I save by removing some apps? oh and I guess that would make the drive speed faster then 95 and bring it up to 500+ I don't think so. Its as good a example as your going to get. The laptop is brought second hand and wipe with fresh install and I added camtasia studio, zonealarm, getdataback aida64 and cryatal disk, most of these do even load at startup. So it a apples to apples comparison. Jesus.
@@Britec09 don't take criticism very well do you? I was just saying that the load outs were not as big as you let on...... I have and run a computer repair and assembly business so I know the stats. It was just constructive criticism not an attack. In the interest of fairness and clarity. Now knowing you can NOT take ANY criticism this will be the last video of yours I watch, much less subscribe to. Have a lovely day.
And my name is Dave not Jesus!!! lol
My mechanical drive boots in about 30 seconds with a clean install. very bad comparison.
@@davidbates2161My mechanical drive boots in about 30 seconds with a clean install. very bad comparison. You nail it my friend!!
Good! It is a pity that there is no possibility to replace the processor. *Thank You, Britec09 =)!*
You can replace the processor because these old ones aren't soldered to the board, regular socket. What you won't get is a better igpu.
@@robertkubrick3738 I found a way. Need to remove the top of the panel (with the keyboard). Indeed, I can upgrade CPU - the processor is in the socket (Alienware). *Thank You, Robert!*
@@Kxarwarx - You're welcome.
How to change bios setting for extending ram for 8 gb to 16 gb
Windows 7 users might be a good time to move to Windows 8.1 Windows 10 MacOS or Linux
Yeah windows 7 is coming to a end, it was good while it lasted.
why 8.1 when you can get windows 10 and learn how to remove bloat and turn things off
@@pennykaye9971 cause Windows 8.1 is supported until 2023 dummy
My old laptop with windows 7 won't take windows 10
@@carlosrojas7386 if your device is 2012 or older it might not work with Windows 10
How do I find out if my board will accept a memory upgrade. I tried on my older PC going from 4 to 8 GB of ram and fried my mother board. Had to by another PC. With my current one I just added my 1tb ssd but wanted to make sure about ram.
Can this do gaming?
Your 'old' laptop with i5-3210m is same speed as my #acer #e5-773 with an i5-6200u
The person who I got this off brought a i3 to replace this lol
Can we upgrade cpu too?