topic Re: Upgrading? in PCs & Accessories

Upgrading?

Terry001 — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:08:17 GMT

I've had my PCV-RX401(CE) for a couple of years now, and I wanted to upgrade it.
My friend said that some computers aren't upgradable.
So are Sony computers upgradable?

I also want to add a new hard drive, the PC only came with two 20GB hard drives.
I'm going to get a 160, now will all the operating systems be on the discs that I got with the PC?
And the new HD is a Hitachi, will that be okay? The discs say only works with a Sony.

Thanks for any replies.

Re: Upgrading?

chris_lewis — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:29:57 GMT

Hi Terry001,

Welcome to the forum!:smileygrin:

I had a look on the specs of this PC and a 2gig proccesor ain't too bad,

As you are out of warranty you could UG a few bits.

If you save all your needed files onto one of the 20gig hard drives you could then install the new one as a slave and just save all new stuff on to that.

The Ram could be upgraded too. you can go up to a maximum of 1536 Meg

This will make the most difference to the speed.

your graphics card looks ok and you have some nice connections on the PC so I would leave that alone.

If you want more, spend the money on a new PC instead.

Hope this helps

Chris.

Re: Upgrading?

Terry001 — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:43:09 GMT

Thanks very much for the info.
I'm not very knowlegeable with computers, but I'll show this post to my friend, who will be helping with a few changes.
Out of interest, do you have a link to the specs of this model?

Re: Upgrading?

chris_lewis — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:51:45 GMT

Yup,

Spec Sheet

Manuals

Chris.

Re: Upgrading?

Terry001 — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:54:26 GMT

Thanks again Chris.

Re: Upgrading?

kee-lo_ — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:38:53 GMT

The 20Gb is perfect for a system drive, whereas the 160GB can be used for pure storage.

As for the specs, it's not a bad PC out of the box.