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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. 👍

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.

WoW!, what a speed improvement, great video Brian. Thank you.

I see you included the US and UK Amazon sites. Awesome dude. Love your Linux walk through videos.

Great info Bri. Fantastic improvement.

I literally just upgraded my nephew's laptop last night, cloning the old drive and all

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 😁

Love the how to videos, thanks for posting 👍

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.

Huge difference! Well done, Brian.

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

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.

I like buying second had laptop or desktops and upgrading them for their maximum performance. Giving a second chance of life, well done Brian. 👍

Anther great video m8 thanks smashed that like buddy

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.

I just upgraded a old Acer extensa 7620 - 4gb ram and 500gb ssd with Windows 10 - it works fine ☺ boot time 25 sec

Saved this video to the hard drive. Thanks Brian!!!

Nicely done Brian, some techs would take 3 or 4 hours off our lives explaining that 😃

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.

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.

Struggling to open the optical drive screw seems to have been welded shut but never mind! Very informative tutorial thanks :)

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

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

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?

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.

Britec the hammer man tech great anger management lol keep them videos coming see you are doing more real time videos

Nice walkthrough Thanks for sharing😀👍

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.

You should've tested with the same apps (that you'll use) installed for an accurate test.

[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.

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.

Another great video and would be much cheaper than buying a new laptop.Don

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~

ssd surely makes a big different on my hp laptop big time ty ty

Nice work Brian.

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!

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 .

Sweet!...I'd like to do this with my Leveno ALL IN ONE...do you have a vid that addresses that machine?

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

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 ?

Good example on how to revitalize an older laptop.

Great video. A small suggestion when comparing seconds. Use 2 hands, power on the 2 devices simultaneously☺

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!

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

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.

Great video, but could I ask, is this stuff possible to do on a 5 year old hp pavilion notebook? 👍

same.. I upgrade toshiba satellite c55t .. more ram up to 8gb. change Hd to ssd from speed 100mgh to 555mghz and I change WifiCard 2 bands from 26ghz to 88ghz increase

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.

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.

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 believe would be better for the SSD to use an HDD for the data and the SSD for System and Applications, what say you?

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!

Hi Brian, how can I check the maximum amount of memory that my old laptop supports?

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 ?

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.

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.

That’s not an old laptop. Install a GNU os. Much more powerful and secure

Thanks Brian

Had a Toshiba satellite for 12 yes before it died, xp and 250meg ram , doubled to 512. Used offline for playing DVDs and office. Just installed Linux mint 19.1 xfce in an Acer 5553 3gb which is 9 yr old, and doing just fine without the venerable win7 .

Thanks Mr. B..

Hi Brian I still have the old DELL X P S 17 Inch Really Heavy Laptop and quiet Expensive for its day, my question Brian is can this too be upgraded like what your doing now??? Could you do a vid on that model Maby in the Future ???

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

How did you get the desktop to load without typing in your Windows password/pin during boot up?

I actually have an older satellite from windows 7 days has a 2nd gen I3 I use it for gaming because they are more prone to have removable parts like ram hard drive and processor

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 (:

I have a Core2Duo HP Dv7 Pavilion Should I upgrade it with good processor and RAM, fan etc?

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.

Very nice video britec

My battery on my Dell Vostro 2520 i3 3110M was still in good shape, it would last about 4 hours. After changing to a SSD, it would last almost 6 hours, streaming movies at 50% brightness. I bought two 9 cell batteries as spares and they will, in the same test, give 10 hours. The HD4000 works great, I have 8+8GB ram in dual channel for 10% boost over single channel and enough system RAM that the igpu can borrow it's maximum of 2.16GB of virtual RAM. The igpu can't borrow RAM if the CPU is using it. The igpu is crippled if you aren't running dual channel. I game on mine, games up to about 2013 will run well, if you optimize for the igpu.

hello sir, may i know what model number is that laptop? thnak you for this great video. cheers. :)

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?

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

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.

Did you ground yourselve in anyway? And if you did please tell me how

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.

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!

My old Toshiba Satellite P505-S8980 has a Intel Core 2 Duo. Is it still worth it? I miss my 18.4 inch display.

I think it use Fast startup (on ssd)

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.

I got DELL PRESICION and thank you for helping me

a long time agoi got a SSD hardrive in my laptop and it takes much faster to boot up

Good! It is a pity that there is no possibility to replace the processor. *Thank You, Britec09 =)!*

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..

EDIT (- I realize this is not a video for gaming) I used a lower end laptop for the past 3 years for gaming. And I could barely get 20 fps on most games. I said screw it saved up as much as I could and bought a desktop. HP Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050/AMD Ryzen 5 2400 Radeon Vega Processor. It was definitely more expensive than a gaming laptop but Its not the newest Graphics Card. Which is why I got a good deal. Wasn't cheap but wasn't crazy Expensive. Now my quality and frame rate is Superb. Every game. If your watching this hoping to Get your laptop to perform Better for gaming then just take my advice. You have probably already tweaked your settings as much as you can and Everything else and you still get bad frame rate and lag. Well there is good news and bad news. Bad news is that your laptop will not be able to perform better than it already does. Good news is You can get a gaming laptop for cheaper than you think. A couple weeks worth of checks from your job will do it. They have Budget gaming laptops for under $450. You don't want to spend much less. If your going desktop you can find budget friendly ones too. But the cheapest way to do it is build your own. Take a week to look up what you want and find what parts you need. It's pretty simple. Do your research. It's 2019 and I can still recommend the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 or TI. It's not the newest but I can play any game on 60 Fps or above. Skyrim gets 115 fps. As for Processor go with AMD Ryzen 5 2400 Vega - Not that expensive either. If your looking to spend just $100 extra you can literally get an even better graphics card which will be worth it in the long run. Last Tip : Research what Graphics cards are the best for price and still hold up for gaming in 2019. You want to have it for 4 years at least. If not more. But seriously An awesome First Gaming Desktop for Starters is The HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop with Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050/AMD Ryzen 5. That's what I got. Now they should have the Newer cards in there desktops so check it out. Looks cool too. Nice design

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??

Hey Brian, What model is the Toshiba Laptop?

not as many apps clogging things up with new install

What is the slowest processor that it's worth installing a SSD and/or extra memory, Pentium 4?

hell yes!! thanks!

Upgrade to Windows 10 ASAP. Windows 7 support will end soon in January 2020. I have it on all of my PC's. A video should be made of that on how to do it. Britec is very clear on how to do things like that. It will already be activated from Windows 7. Do it to avoid potential future problems now.

Your 'old' laptop with i5-3210m is same speed as my #acer #e5-773 with an i5-6200u

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?

Windows 7 users might be a good time to move to Windows 8.1 Windows 10 MacOS or Linux

This kind of laptops support Windows 10 and some upgrade by hardware,but there are PCs that is not possible run the last version of Windows, in my case a had a girlfriend that give me a PC (HP Compaq dx 2450 microtower) this PC was very slow,crashes,bsod with Windows 10, i thought trow to trash,but give it a last chance, i had a copy of gnu Linux (Xubuntu 18.04,2 lts), this PC now a days runs fast,without crashes,updates without problems, this PC for my gal is Her HCPC with an old Home theater Samsung HT e350k,emulate audio stereo with dolby pro logic II and connected a Samsung 55" tv, is a second life for this PC seeing movies in 720/1080p, thanks for your videos

Will these parts work for hp dv4 AMD turion x2?