Upgrading my PC

[Silicon]

Hope I have the correct forum for this..

I have a Dell Dimension that is some 5 years old now.

However, I have no idea what might be a suitable board to use. Can anyone offer some suggestions? Always grateful of any advice.

Thanks

 

[elroacho72]

What is your budget?

 

[raybay]

Tell us the Dimension model and configuration... and how you use it.

Unless you are into serious gaming, and the Dimension is not just a basic model, you may be able to get a lot more out of it with a few practical changes.

If you change the motherboard, then you need to change the power supply, and many Dimensions have a case configuration that do not encourage an easy switch of power supplies... and motherboards.

 

[Silicon]

Tell us the Dimension model and configuration... and how you use it.

Unless you are into serious gaming, and the Dimension is not just a basic model, you may be able to get a lot more out of it with a few practical changes.

If you change the motherboard, then you need to change the power supply, and many Dimensions have a case configuration that do not encourage an easy switch of power supplies... and motherboards.

The model is the 4600. It has 160Gb HD, 512Mb RAM and a 3GHz CPU. There seems to be an awful lot of disc traffic and I suspect that a simple increase in RAM will do wonders.

 

[klepto12]

yeah 2 gigs of ram would do wonders for that system.

 

[Silicon]

yeah 2 gigs of ram would do wonders for that system.

That's what I figured. There was a nice link to Crucial. I'd rather forgo a new lappie for Christmas that waste a perfectly good PC.