This thing has trouble running anything made past like 2012 and the newer emulators out there totally bust it. I tried recently running citra and it could barely hit 30%. Would switching over to linux lighten the load on the cpu and free it up so I could run more demanding games?
Also how is linux for emulation and gaming in general?
hmm didn't think about the thermal paste, wonder if that would be helpful. Thanks.
It almost certainly would. If you give me a model number I can help you figure out what’s possible.
MSI GE60 laptop
Msi will have three or four letter code like 0nd or 2pe or 2qd or something. It might be on one of the stickers on the bottom. That tells the guts of what’s in the ge60 chassis.
I ask because some of the ge60 configurations support only 8gb of ram and some support 32gb.
GE 60 0nd according to google, it's got 8gb ram
according to MSI you can have 16GB of ram in two sticks of DDR3 133. it's $23, there's no reason not to get a set of two at that price even though you already have one. who knows what the CAS latency is on the one you have and both sticks need to have the same latency anyway, so go ahead and do both if you want to upgrayedd the ram.
you could easily replace the sata hard drive with a sata ssd. here's a 1tb one for $72. you could go less and save some money.
the thermal paste is the hardest part, you gotta take some screws out, yank the heatsink, clean the old paste off and reapply new. here's a video of someone taking it apart. assembly is the reverse of disassembly. i use alcohol and paper towels to clean cpus and heatsinks. here's some thermal paste for $6. i use cheaper and shittier stuff because most of the stuff i work on isn't as high temp as computers. it ought to be fine.
Cool thanks! I'll see what I can do