Upgrading an old P6831-FX

[Devryn]

I picked up a T9300 for $65 shipped off of evilBay. We'll see how it goes. It seemed like a pretty safe bet. I also got 4 GB RAM of PC6400 RAM at Fry's for $50, and a tube of thermal paste for $10. I'm $125 deep into it, and I'm O.K. with that. I've had the laptop for what...4 years next month? I've gamed (Mass Effect 1 and 2, Fallout, Crysis, SW:TOR, Portal 1 and 2, Half-Life 2, etc) thrown it into and out of bags, dropped it at least once, spilled coffee on it at least once, and the thing is still going strong. The video card gets hot, but when I game, I try to do it on a hard surface, and I maybe game for 2 hours at a time. That's about the limit of my attention span. It's not a concious effort to keep the card's life up, it's just about what I can do at a time. I also keep it clean. I take the doors off the bottom and blow it out once every few months. This thing has honestly taken one helluva beating, and it keeps going without problem (O.K...The original HDD failed...So I bought a bigger one)...

[hydra]

Not bad, I paid big bucks for the 9300 almost 3 years ago. I was sort of hoping you would stuff a x9000 in there... if you found one cheap