Hello I need help here

I have Samsung laptop R538 3gb ram with Intel I3 three digit generation you know it works but can't do anything other than browsing and is extremely slow and can't run any game so I need help what should I upgrade other than ram ?

 

whats the specs of your loptop

 

How old is the laptop and the specs? As generally these days, laptops arent made to really be able to be easily upgraded. generally its easier just to get a new one as you'd basically have to replace almost everything anyway to upgrade it.
They arent "modular" like PCs are, unless you got like a full custom laptop that's made so it can be upgraded.

That's what i was told when i needed to upgrade from my old laptop 18 months ago.

 

2011 laptop huh.

Just get a new lappy instead. It's better than attempting to upgrade and all that hassle included.

 

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/best-budget-laptops/

here. hope this helps.

 

I had a new one but I want to make my old one to be able to play any 2010 games smooth you know

 

As far as I know, most laptop can't be upgraded on some certain parts, only RAM that's still able too. You need to buy a new one if you really have to.

Obviously PC is a better choice if you want to use it in a long term

 

I have two latops one new and one old I forgot my new one in my dorm and can't go to the dorm because of corona and I have a gaming PC but the problem comes because of my two brothers who wants to play 24/7 on both the laptop and pc

 

I want to make the old laptop run crossfire smooth you know

 

If you do want to upgrade, make sure the RAM DDR type is correct. and CPU's have a cap on max RAM, check that first.

some other things you can do, are switch SSD into the CD drive, check if the graphic or sound card can be easily taken out and in without damaging other components and then decide whether it's worth it to change them up.

 

Thanks alot I appreciate it it seems as the cost is at least 450egp plus sad costs 500 then the total is 950 about the audio o won't change it , I don't know about the other things

 

Yeah laptops are a bit of a pain. You can upgrade the RAM but that’s not gonna do much as your going to be bottlenecked by your (what I assume to be) integrated GPU. Modern iGPUs are actually pretty good and can run allot of games but those older ones are beyond terrible at running any game. Long story short you can’t do much, maybe download a game streaming service? Not sure it would work with your laptop but you should look into it.

 

Clean the dust inside your laptop. Works on 9/10 of the times on old laptops that haven't been abused

 

Thanks it seems to be the case which is sad news no matter what I do it can only be a browsing laptop

 

Yeah, I don’t use them so I don’t know much about them but might look into Stadia, GeForce Now, or PlayStation Now. You can stream high end games from low end PCs. I think stadia even has a free tier.

 

Thanks

 

I3 core is about 10 years, with 3gb of ram.
2core 2 threads.
I have one with me now, try get it to run KDE desktops maybe debian. It can still works magics.

 

I almost read that as 3rd generation. Haha.

 

I set up Linux and increased the ram to 6gb do that it doesn't slow down at all now but all I can do on it is programming and browsing

 

Depends on the desktop environment, and please don't use Ubuntu. To controbuit to the fuck Canonical efforts. I think Grome2 or kde is good environment. If your good at GTK and GTK2 you can really setup anything you like, like window 10 desktop, windows 7 desktop.
Just don't use Ubuntu, as fuk canonical.
OH, and crossfire will not run well if you have amd graphics. Make sure you get the graphics card drivers, which can be a mess to set up.
Actually try fedora if your bad with debian, rummors says that fedora is easier.
But that intel chips missing many micro commands, so It might be a bit hard. Do that game support Linux?