The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Few questions about the MSI 1651

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by cbl12886, Feb 16, 2009.

  1. cbl12886

    cbl12886 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    109
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I am looking to build one for around $500 or a little over. I have picked out this hard drive and this memory. If can get the Laptop for around $330 then that would give me around $100 for a processor. What would be the best deal in that price range on the forum or eBay? Also what is a good wireless card that is cheap? Also, would xp professional load fine on this or should I just spend $100 and by vista?
     
    cbl12886, Feb 16, 2009
    #1
  2. vinceboiii

    vinceboiii Animals are friends, not food.

    Reputations:
    169
    Messages:
    1,402
    Likes Received:
    41
    Trophy Points:
    66
    cheap wifi is the 5100 and it runs xp just fine just when u boot laptop go into bios and config the HDD to IDE instead of AHCIP or wahtever that option is.
     
    vinceboiii, Feb 16, 2009
    #2
  3. cbl12886

    cbl12886 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    109
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Good, I really did not want to have to buy vista. I will wait until 7 comes out. Any idea what a good processor would be that is compatible and cheap?
     
    cbl12886, Feb 16, 2009
    #3
  4. vinceboiii

    vinceboiii Animals are friends, not food.

    Reputations:
    169
    Messages:
    1,402
    Likes Received:
    41
    Trophy Points:
    66
    whats cheap to you?
     
    vinceboiii, Feb 17, 2009
    #4
  5. diablo2k

    diablo2k Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    67
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    diablo2k, Feb 17, 2009
    #5
  6. vinceboiii

    vinceboiii Animals are friends, not food.

    Reputations:
    169
    Messages:
    1,402
    Likes Received:
    41
    Trophy Points:
    66
    vinceboiii, Feb 17, 2009
    #6
  7. vinceboiii

    vinceboiii Animals are friends, not food.

    Reputations:
    169
    Messages:
    1,402
    Likes Received:
    41
    Trophy Points:
    66
    vinceboiii, Feb 17, 2009
    #7
  8. Genna

    Genna Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    144
    Messages:
    476
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Diablo 2k,
    The first link you reffered for wireless card is NOT for your laptop. It is PCI card, not PCI-E. The seller there means that this wireless in for DELL Inspirion 5100 (this is the full name of the laptop, not the wireless card). The second one is exact one you need. It's full compatible to yours 1651.
    About the CPU, under 100$ I think that for this money you can't find Core 2 Duo CPU and you have to search for a Celeron CPU. May be this one will do:
    Celeron Dual-Core | T1700 | SLB6H | 1833 MHz | 1024 KiB | 667 MT/s
     
    Genna, Feb 17, 2009
    #8
  9. cbl12886

    cbl12886 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    109
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    That looks to be a good deal. How about this P8400 processor for $150 shipped?
     
    cbl12886, Feb 17, 2009
    #9
  10. Genna

    Genna Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    144
    Messages:
    476
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    cbl12886, be careful when you buy from E-Bay, many of the CPUs posted there are ES (Engeenering Sample), like the CPU you reffer in your link. There are more than one ES before a CPU gets on the market. If it is last ES, it's very possible to be good CPU, but if it's one of the first, be sure that you'll have troubles with it. Many laptops don't recognize these CPUs, also there is no possibility to watch the temperatures. These are only some of the troubles that I found for the ES CPUs.
    My personal advice to you is NOT to buy a CPU from this seller. I know that his P9600 are no good. If you want to buy from E-Bay check what extremeprocessor have, at least he writes enough for his ES CPUs and tests them for all known troubles.

    I've checked, and this one is his cheapest CPU - T9400, and is for socket P
     
    Genna, Feb 17, 2009
    #10
  11. cbl12886

    cbl12886 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    109
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    vinceboiii: I did a quick search for eBay processors and I saw that you bought your T9400 on eBay. That is the processor I am looking at and they are around $160 on eBay. What seller did you buy from?
     
    cbl12886, Feb 17, 2009
    #11
  12. cbl12886

    cbl12886 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    109
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    cbl12886, Feb 17, 2009
    #12
  13. Saisei

    Saisei Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    108
    Messages:
    869
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Tats a good deal better than the retail price.
     
    Saisei, Feb 17, 2009
    #13
  14. vinceboiii

    vinceboiii Animals are friends, not food.

    Reputations:
    169
    Messages:
    1,402
    Likes Received:
    41
    Trophy Points:
    66
    vinceboiii, Feb 17, 2009
    #14