dell dimension 2400 upgrade to gaming

[cook91c]

I wold like to do some upgrades to my dell dimension 2400 so i could start playing games like need for speed shift and the star trek online. i no i will need a graphics card and and some ram but i have no clue what ones i will need, how much i will need . i no i got plenty of room on my computer i just got a 500gb hard drive. I not trying to spend to much more then $175. can i do it for that price and dose anyone have any recommendations. Thanks

 

[RichM499]

You're really going to need to put together a new system. The Dell Dimension 2400 is limited to Single core processors 3.066ghz and lower, it doesn't have an AGP or PCIx slot, and it's limited to PC 2700 DDR 333mhz.


There is no way you're ever going to play any of the newer games on this system.
You need to come up with a better budget, and for around $350-$400 you can put together a nice system.

 

[Trotter]

Rich is right, mate. The older Dells worked for surfing the net and banging out office documents, but not much else.

 

[cook91c]

so how would i go about building a new system

 

[RichM499]

You can buy it online, or purchase it at a local shop. The best bet is to buy it online and piece it together yourself. If you come back with a number for your budget, we can help you figure something out

 

[cook91c]

you said i could build a nice system for $350-$400 so lets go with that

 

[RichM499]

http://www.techist.com/forums/f75/simple-college-desktop-computer-224794/

Check out this thread, there are quite a few suggestions for this price range. One of them is even a decent little prebuilt system for $300

 

[aliasaid]

Here's one build, but it doesn't include an HD (this is where your new 500GB comes in); also doesn't include opticals or OS. You could get the opticals from your old Dell... and OS well.... you think of that!

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should handle most games out there.

 

[Trotter]

Nice build.

Swap out the CPU/mobo combo for this one and $21 more and get a quad.
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