Upgrading a Lenovo G500!?

Tiger_1 · Aug 26, 2015

Hello,
Hello.

I have a Lenovo G500 that's just been discarded. Now I have been interested in gaming and have noticed that my computer does not really have what it takes to play recent games but even the old ones.

I wonder what I can upgrade on my little garbage to make it more to an gaming laptop. But also just generally faster when opening and installing programs.

Specs for now.

- Intel® Celeron® Processor 1005M (1.90GHz 1600MHz 2MB)
- Windows 10 64
- 4GB PC3-12800 DDR3 SDRAM 1600 MHz
- 500GB HDD storage (5400rpm)
- Intel® HD Graphics

More information at: http

/shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/g-series/g500/#tab-tech_specs

I have checked the SDD and RAM? Is that anything i need? Will it improve my computer when playing games?

Please help me and link good things i could buy to upgrade. My budget is around 274,40 USD.

Thanks.

Gamer Cat · Aug 26, 2015

You cannot upgrade CPUs or GPUs in laptops.

You are able to upgrade the RAM to 8GB, but you wouldn't really notice a difference when playing games.

I would say that you should buy a new laptop (or desktop) that is dedicated to games.

Tiger_1 · Aug 26, 2015

Gamer Cat :

Hello, well i don't have enough money to buy a new laptop or desktop. But what about change my HDD to SDD?
Someone told me this one was good ( Samsung 850 EVO 120GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E120B/AM)
http

/www.amazon.com/dp/B00OAJ5N6I/ref=asc_df_B00OAJ5N6I3860426/?tag=hawk-future-20&creative=394997&creativeASIN=B00OAJ5N6I&linkCode=df0&ascsubtag=hawk-22414448-20

boosted1g · Aug 26, 2015

That will help the computer respond faster to booting and opening programs. It will make the computer feel faster for sure.
It however does not help at all playing games, you will see no FPS improvement and will not be able to change settings in any way.

Laptops have minimal upgradeability. You cant buy the bottom end and expect to make it high end latter.

Tiger_1 · Aug 26, 2015

boosted1g :

Hi man, thanks for your answer. OK guessing i'm stuck then, how big diffrence will i see after changing to that SSD?
Extremely big, big?

boosted1g · Aug 26, 2015

As far as booting windows and opening most programs you will see a significant increase, like 2-4x increase.
This is of course assuming PC is in good maintenance and does not have constant full cpu usage.

Tiger_1 · Aug 26, 2015

boosted1g :

Alright thanks, what about RAM? What does it do? Will it speed up my computer if im upgrading?

boosted1g · Aug 26, 2015

If you had less then 4gb I would tell you to upgrade. In your case the Celeron is more likely going to slow you down before you run out of memory.

You can always go into task manager and see what your cpu and memory usage is.

Tiger_1 · Aug 26, 2015

boosted1g :

Wait what?
So i shouldnt upgrade to SSD?

boosted1g · Aug 26, 2015

I was talking about RAM/Memory. Your cpu will hold you back before 4gb of memory will. Thus upgrading from 4gb to 8gb will make little to no difference.

An ssd drive can be used in future PCs so it is always a worthwhile upgrade for anything running windows 7 or newer.

Snipergod87 · Aug 26, 2015

You are probably able to upgrade the Celeron 1005m to something a bit more powerful. You would need to find a chip that works on FCPGA988, would need to be a 2000-3000 series mobile processor with a 35w or less TDP, the big question is whether or not your BIOS will support the new processor, and taking apart a laptop and upgrading the processor is difficult, but you should have increased GPU and CPU performance (as the Intel IGP) will be upgraded.

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