Hey guys,
I haven’t been very active on this forum lately, because I’m very busy with my school (I study electrotech at Zuyd Highschool and the Netherlands), and for that study I use my laptop, and we have a lot of CPU – hogging CAD software that often tends to take up a lot of CPU and make my notebook run slow and overheat. I already have my battery settings set up so it doesnt go above 80% of the maximum CPU, because otherwise it would easily overheat.
Now, I have two options. I have the money to either upgrade my CPU or purchase an SSD drive.
My question is: What will result in the best performance boost, regarding my usage of it and if I were to choose the CPU, would my build – in cooler be able to handle the increase in clockspeed, and probably heat-generation coming from the new CPU? I could imagine that an i5 generates more heat then a pentium (which it is in this case).
Thanks in advance!