Easy or Not worth my Time?: Switching to a Custom Computer Case

[Deadcell]

Hello i was thinking about purchase the Dell Inspiron Slim 530s and switching out some hardware in it to get some better gaming out of it (500+ Watt Power supply, Graphic Card Upgrade (HIS X1650Pro IceQ Turbo) and Creative Sound Blaster X-treme Audio or X-treme Gamer Sound Card) Obvisouly, being thirteen and taking all this time and research and my lifes saving's (pretty much - I saved up about 470$ for no real reason), i want it to look cool and make all my friends jealous. So, to the point: If i buy a new custom case (here's some choiced B-low), is it that hard to move all the chips and drives from the dell case to another??

http://www.apevia.com/product.php?pid=188&xcSID=f6719a424d4710ae514c220ae36985a9
http://www.apevia.com/product.php?pid=64&xcSID=f6719a424d4710ae514c220ae36985a9
http://www.apevia.com/product.php?pid=69&xcSID=f6719a424d4710ae514c220ae36985a9
http://www.apevia.com/product.php?pid=187&xcSID=f6719a424d4710ae514c220ae36985a9
http://www.apevia.com/product.php?pid=203&xcSID=f6719a424d4710ae514c220ae36985a9

It doens't take a whole day and a huge instruction pamplet,right? I know this is a stupid question but I'm only being cautious before spending 30$. All you have to do is un-mount and un-plug
each piece and re-mount and re-plug it into the other case, right??

PS - If I buy 1 or 2 neon glowstrips and LED lights (which probably aren't worth the money and hastle, but for 5 buksa piece, why not??), do i plug them into like the Mobo (probably not) or directly into the power supply? Do you mount them with velcro, screws, or do they have some kind of slot??
(I'm sorry many ppl frown when noobs post questions that sound like they haven't reasearched or don''t know what theyre talking bout' - I tried to)

 

[Cinders]

Why pay $400.00 for a processor, motherboard, memory, hard drive, and operating system that you have little control over.

PROCESSOR

MOTHERBOARD

MEMORY

HARD DRIVE

OPERATING SYSTEM

The above is a little more expensive but you have total control, and I'm a little leery about the motherboard but you can choose what ever you can afford and still works with the processor. You'd also have to have a video card too to get this running because it doesn't have built-in video. Any case you really like would be best. Neon usually connects to your power supply. You might want to spend the sound card money on your video card, and go with a cheaper sound card unless you really want the best sounding music, and you have a half-decent sound system to go with it. Planning your new computer usually takes the most time. Installing components into your case can take a couple of hours if everything goes smothly and much more it it doesn't, and yes, most of the time it's just take out and plug back in.

 

[CJ-real]

It would be around 30%-50% off if you built your own, and more expandable.

My:
Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme 2.66GHz
Dual
22" Widescreen
2GB RAM
500GB HDD
Lightscribe, and DVD RW
SoundBlaster sound card
7.1 surround sound
Wireless mouse, keyboard, and a surgeprotector
Wireless network connector
Dual graphic cards

BUILD IT ON DELL, IT WOULD COST: £2,763.64


I built it for £1500


Configure Dell here:
http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?b=&c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&kc=D4XXPS03&l=en&oc=D08XP5AXP&rbc=D08XP5AXP&s=dhs&~ck=expbuy3

 

[samjohnson]

Man if I were you I would deffintly not take the stuff from a Dell and move it to a new case. For one thing (anybody can correct me if I am wrong) the Dell cases are BTX so a BTX motherboard would not fit into a ATX case, and as far as I know the BTX cases are really hard to find. Not much varity either. That is what I was actually going to try and do with my dell to. But trust me its way better just to start from scratch. I built my computer for $730. What I did was just get everything you need for inside the case and don't buy a mouse, keyboard, speakers or moniter. And then use those things from the dell for the comp you build. Makes it cheaper.

This is my system, like I said I built it for $730. Not a bad system either.

ASUS M2N SLI Delux Motherboard

1 gig of A-Data RAM

160gb hard drive

A dvd/cd writable drive

GeForce 7600GT 256mb graphics card

AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual core 2.4 4600+ CPU

Rosewill 550W PSU

And of course A XION case