Hello there!! I have a question that has been haunting me for some time now i have a Dell Dimension 5150 and here is it's motherboard cgi.ebay.com/DELL-DIMENSION-5100-5150-E510-MOTHERBOARD-KF623_W0QQitemZ170430812628QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMotherboards?hash=item27ae77d1d4..... I have been playing World of Warcraft on it for years and what i wanna do is upgrade it's video card but i don't really know what to do after that.. I know my stuff around computers but i have no idea when it comes to all the specifications and every other complication it comes with i just want someone to point me and say well here buy this and it will work Keep in mind i only use it to play world of warcraft.
Your system will support any PCI-Express (PCIe) based graphics card, so you have a great many to choose from.
Your motherboard vital statistics here; http://www.ascendtech.us/itemdesc.asp?ic=MB4DELRD203&eq=&Tp
or here... http://www.dell.com/us/en/dfb/desktops/dimen_5150/pd.aspx?refid=dimen_5150&cs=28&s=dfb
As you can see, your board supports up to 4Gb RAM and depending on your current CPU, you can upgrade that too- only with the 84watt TDP processors though (630, 630 and 640 models)
The heatsink you have (Dell part number OP/P8353) won't support the thermal requirements of Pentium D or Core 2 Duo
As for which upgrade path would provide you with the best gaming experience in WoW....sorry, not my bag. I would guess Graphics would give the lardest increase followed by RAM. Don't think you'll gain anything with a CPU upgrade.
Keep in mind i only use it to play world of warcraft.
