Zelphrin
Solid State Member
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Hello everyone! I was just looking around different forums, and found that this one offers a lot of advice. My first real tinkering around with builds was upgrading a Dell XPS 410 (2007).
Dell XPS 410 - Zelphrin
MoBo - Intel Chipset P965 Standard ATX/BTX
CPU - MP626 Kentsfield Quad Core Q6600, 2.40G, 8MB, 1066FSB, G0
Memory - 2GB (Upgraded to 4GB Kingston)
Hard Drive - Seagate 500GB 5400 RPM 16MB Cache
Video Card - NVidia GeForce 8600 GT (Upgraded to Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 SE 1GB)
Power Supply - 375W (Upgraded to RaidMax 650W)
Sound Card - Soundblaster XF-i Extreme
OS - Windows XP Professional 32-bit (Upgraded to Windows 7 Home 32-Bit)
I'm ready to upgrade this tower again here in a few months. The next upgrades are probably going to be Full MoBo build including memory and CPU. However, this isn't the reason for this post. My wife's old tower is an excessively old Intel Pentium 5 system. The tower, itself, is actually large enough with the ATX build, so upgrading the tower won't be a problem. For some strange reason, there's two docks for Hard Drives and a buttload of PCI slots in the back. Well, here goes the new build. I won't even bother telling you what's being upgraded since it's so old. I'll give you a hint... 20GB Hard Drive... that should say it all.
Old Dog, New Tricks - Excella
MoBo - MSI P67-GD55 1155 Socket
CPU - Intel Core i5 2400k 3.1 GHz
Memory - Corsair XMS3 16GB (four 4GB modules)
Solid State Drive - Patriot Torqx 2 64GB
Hard Drive - Western Digital 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache
Video Card - PNY GeForce 560 Ti
Power Supply - Apevia Iceberg 680W
Sound Card - Soundblaster Titanium HD Fatal1ty Professional
OS - Windows 7 Ultimate
I hope this is a good build. My aim was around $1000. Is this an okay build?
Dell XPS 410 - Zelphrin
MoBo - Intel Chipset P965 Standard ATX/BTX
CPU - MP626 Kentsfield Quad Core Q6600, 2.40G, 8MB, 1066FSB, G0
Memory - 2GB (Upgraded to 4GB Kingston)
Hard Drive - Seagate 500GB 5400 RPM 16MB Cache
Video Card - NVidia GeForce 8600 GT (Upgraded to Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 SE 1GB)
Power Supply - 375W (Upgraded to RaidMax 650W)
Sound Card - Soundblaster XF-i Extreme
OS - Windows XP Professional 32-bit (Upgraded to Windows 7 Home 32-Bit)
I'm ready to upgrade this tower again here in a few months. The next upgrades are probably going to be Full MoBo build including memory and CPU. However, this isn't the reason for this post. My wife's old tower is an excessively old Intel Pentium 5 system. The tower, itself, is actually large enough with the ATX build, so upgrading the tower won't be a problem. For some strange reason, there's two docks for Hard Drives and a buttload of PCI slots in the back. Well, here goes the new build. I won't even bother telling you what's being upgraded since it's so old. I'll give you a hint... 20GB Hard Drive... that should say it all.
Old Dog, New Tricks - Excella
MoBo - MSI P67-GD55 1155 Socket
CPU - Intel Core i5 2400k 3.1 GHz
Memory - Corsair XMS3 16GB (four 4GB modules)
Solid State Drive - Patriot Torqx 2 64GB
Hard Drive - Western Digital 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache
Video Card - PNY GeForce 560 Ti
Power Supply - Apevia Iceberg 680W
Sound Card - Soundblaster Titanium HD Fatal1ty Professional
OS - Windows 7 Ultimate
I hope this is a good build. My aim was around $1000. Is this an okay build?