So to report the Amtron 2 gig card is doing well. At first I noticed no real difference, boot times were about the same. So I put it under load. I filled about 640 mb on the card under a stress test using it as swap and there was a perceived performance boost and that apps appeared to resond faster, …

To add to what Bondi wrote, there are also external docks with PCI slots that use a Cardbus card to connect to a laptop. Your laptop supports ExpressCard 34, you should look more into that type of cards for a performance boost: USB3.0, eSata, and adapters to full size PCIe or M.2 miniPCIe. I like …

Just my 2 cents but I also feel that many people use them to learn on. I did that 20 years ago. I bought several lots of computers from the 95 era from schools and practiced a lot on them with tearing down and building them. I had a few with the Kingston processor upgrades, etc. This is likely very …

Hi guys and thank you for reading this. I am fixing up an old dell d430 and have taken it apart and rebuilt it with various parts and I am down to the last few components. I have been reading on PCMCIA cards and came across a few things. To note it is running q4os debian linux. (I was alive and …

To add to what Bondi wrote, there are also external docks with PCI slots that use a Cardbus card to connect to a laptop. Your laptop supports ExpressCard 34, you should look more into that type of cards for a performance boost: USB3.0, eSata, and adapters to full size PCIe or M.2 miniPCIe. I like …

If your laptop was say a Dell Vostro then you might internally upgrade the video like the 1500 which has a upgrade to nV8600 w/256Mb VRAM. I have one with the opted upgrade when I ordered it decades ago. Do not think there were many others that you could do that to.. but could be wrong... No that …

If your board has a 1.3 ghz core 2 duo u7700 processor then NO there is no PCMCIA adapters that will help your video or cpu. You are way beyond any of those older things that might.... just my opinion. I thought that would be the case, integrated graphics is limited to 8mb so I thought I would see …

Hi guys and thank you for reading this. I am fixing up an old dell d430 and have taken it apart and rebuilt it with various parts and I am down to the last few components. I have been reading on PCMCIA cards and came across a few things. To note it is running q4os debian linux. (I was alive and well …