well this is a hard area to begin with... geforce is good, 1gb ram is good, hd space is questionable...what is safe to you? 10gb? 50 gb? 250gb?
all i know is this laptop, is 300mhz, 64mb ram, and 4gb hd space...the hd is also 81% full due to upgrades... i have enough money to change out the motherboard and throw 2 dual core processors in it, and 2gb ram, and the hd i can easily get away with 250gb...depends what you do with it...
most games nowadays are over 2gb and sold on dvds, if you need the cd/dvd to play you could upgrade the drive up a level to read and/or write faster, just beware cd and dvd drives in stores have 2 numbers for a reason it may read 52/16 or 32/8 or something like that when you go to purchase a drive...the first number is usually max read only speed, and the second is max write or sometimes just average read only speed...which means it will spin up the disc fast to 52x and find position and then will read/write averaging at 16x
for free -- how often do you defragment the hard drive or run a scan disk (assuming you run windows here) if the hard drive is properly maintained...close every program you can and run both utilities or equivalent if you use software not provided by microsoft...they will help keep things in order...defrag will organize used space and free space will remain open towards the front of the HD for easy access to programs that will be needing to read and write frequently...
getting to that what kind of processor do you have? have you researched it? does it support the kind of code specifically for certain file types and programming languages? sounds like a stupid question but that's why there are pc's made for dos, windows, unix, linux, freebsd, solaris....some for gaming some for office and commercial use....some for home application and just word processing
and actually anything the HD could be 750gb i've seen lately on the home pc market...stores a lot but it runs and reads at 5400 RPM...slow considering other options that are slightly smaller say 400 gb or so that read at 7200 rpm...so if you're worried with a smaller drive on your average desktop or tower pc you should be able to install 2 or more drives
and ram too...you buy ram and it has 2 numbers...most of the time they tell you to buy 2 chips that are equal never only 1...so 1 gb ram is 2 -- 512 mb chips...on the package they came in probably before the computer you originally bought was preinstalled with...so you have no idea but if you open it up and look...1 if you did the work to slide the graphics card in hope you did it yourself, or hope you had $60.00 or so to just throw away... well if you did hope you have an anti-static pad you can lay the pc on when you work, and some screwdrivers of all sizes both phillips (and flathead just in case) that are non-magnetic tipped. i recommend you really don't touch the pc yourself if you have absolutely no idea what you're doing, and hope i don't give you the inspiration to do something you are uncapable of, but if you are ram is easily recognizable to the naked eye...the chips are thin and about 4 or 4.5 inches long most pc's have 2 or 4 slots, like i said previous they are divided evenly...you would have to find a picture if you don't know what a ram chip looks like don't do this yourself -- now you can press both clips on the sides of the chips to remove (example ^^chip^^ -- the up arrow resembles up and in locked position on motherboard you will gently push <
> on both sides and carefully wiggle chip up and out EVENLY never lift only 1 side can damage chips easily) but to the point when you look at the chip in your case it will probably say 512/##ns (1gb ram 2 chips) the ## is the speed of the ram in nanoseconds...which is how long it will take for the motherboard and processor to respond and if under enough stress in a windows environment, windows had a paging or swap file in it's virtual memory setting...basically if it runs out of ram for a particular application it writes necessary processes twice and re-executes from the hard drive after it clears ram cache...to make a really goddamn story short most ram has been averaging 70 ns or better for years...this pc runs 60 here, but i think you can get as low as 40's...does it really make a HUGE difference...not really on the home pc gamer level usually just amount of ram...but there are software based applications that not only defragment your HD but also defrag and organize RAM, which does make a HUGE difference...and take it here i wouldn't use this laptop here just to bull s.h.i.t around on if it wasn't fast enough for me, but this will give you a good idea i hope of what to do, and if not, trade it in or return the geforce card you bought you're gonna need the money:
http://www.alienware.com <<--- is where you should be if
you are really serious about gaming and highspeed response from your PC