If I upgrade my Alienware Aurora M9700, could I efficiently play newer games? (Not sure if right place to post)

[frogzx]

So i'm rather new to PC gaming and my friend just bought a new Alienware, and decided to give me his old M9700 since he wouldn't be using it before. I know it's really outdated, but I also know it can run a decent amount of games. And i'm not really looking to run everything at max with it or anything. I has a 150W adapter, and I don't really know how the wattage effects the gaming, would that hinder anything? I was planning on upgrading the graphics card, and maybe the processor to a better dual core than the Turion 64 x2. If this isn't the right place to post please let me know, I'm new to the website and the PC gaming world as a whole, so I'm not exactly sure where to turn.

 

[USAFRet]

It is an 8 year old laptop. There is [strike]little [/strike] nothing you could do to it to make it even a little bit current.

 

[twilysparklez]

Laptops are pretty hard to upgrade. The most you can do is add more RAM, Change the Hard drive for an sad or a faster/bigger one, And sometimes switch out the CPU.

 

[USAFRet]

I wouldn't put a penny into trying to upgrade this. http://www.cnet.com/laptops/alienware-aurora-m9700/4507-3121_7-31878926.html

SSD? No. It is limited to SATA I speed.
RAM? 2GB DDR max.
Any possible CPU change would be minimal at best.

 

[frogzx]

I wouldn't put a penny into trying to upgrade this. http://www.cnet.com/laptops/alienware-aurora-m9700/4507-3121_7-31878926.html

SSD? No. It is limited to SATA I speed.
RAM? 2GB DDR max.
Any possible CPU change would be minimal at best.

Can I not get an SSD hard drive to replace it? Get a new GPU and CPU? Or is there something im missing?

 

[USAFRet]

I wouldn't put a penny into trying to upgrade this. http://www.cnet.com/laptops/alienware-aurora-m9700/4507-3121_7-31878926.html

SSD? No. It is limited to SATA I speed.
RAM? 2GB DDR max.
Any possible CPU change would be minimal at best.

Can I not get an SSD hard drive to replace it? Get a new GPU and CPU? Or is there something im missing?

Yes, you can get an SSD. But it will be severely limited in speed, due to the SATA I interface.
You might be able to change the CPU, but only to what that motherboard supports. Very little actual performance change.
You almost certainly can't change the GPU.

It is near impossible to change a laptop to make it much 'better'. An 8 year old laptop is even worse.

 

[Vadamo]

I wouldn't put a penny into trying to upgrade this. http://www.cnet.com/laptops/alienware-aurora-m9700/4507-3121_7-31878926.html

SSD? No. It is limited to SATA I speed.
RAM? 2GB DDR max.
Any possible CPU change would be minimal at best.

Can I not get an SSD hard drive to replace it? Get a new GPU and CPU? Or is there something im missing?

Yes, you can get an SSD. But it will be severely limited in speed, due to the SATA I interface.
You might be able to change the CPU, but only to what that motherboard supports. Very little actual performance change.
You almost certainly can't change the GPU.

It is near impossible to change a laptop to make it much 'better'. An 8 year old laptop is even worse.

The board is Socket 754 , your lucky to get a dual core. They didnt make that many of them, most are just single core.

 

[frogzx]

I wouldn't put a penny into trying to upgrade this. http://www.cnet.com/laptops/alienware-aurora-m9700/4507-3121_7-31878926.html

SSD? No. It is limited to SATA I speed.
RAM? 2GB DDR max.
Any possible CPU change would be minimal at best.

Can I not get an SSD hard drive to replace it? Get a new GPU and CPU? Or is there something im missing?

Yes, you can get an SSD. But it will be severely limited in speed, due to the SATA I interface.
You might be able to change the CPU, but only to what that motherboard supports. Very little actual performance change.
You almost certainly can't change the GPU.

It is near impossible to change a laptop to make it much 'better'. An 8 year old laptop is even worse.

A few questions. Why can't I change the GPU? My father lended me his extra GeForce GT 2GB 640 and replaced the two already in it, and it runs just fine. I do understand the whole SATA thing though, but is there any way that I can upgrade to SATA II or III? If I even need it, like I said, i'm not trying to play brand new games, just some browser based stuff. And maybe Modern Warfare 2 (Which I know I can run, as i'm running right now). Maybe the laptop has been upgraded since hes had it? I'm about to try to run a newer game on it, being Warframe on Steam. I'll see how that goes.

 

[USAFRet]

If you can actually change the GPU on that, it is one of the few laptops that you can.

As for the SSD? You can put whatever drive you like in it. SATA III, if you want. But it will be limited to SATA I speed, because thats what the port on the motherboard supports.