- Apr 17, 2014
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Hello,
My name is James, and I'm defiantly new. Well my old Vista machine had a motherboard failure and I needed a cheap computer quick. I ended up ordering a Joy Systems refurbished Dell 755 MT through Wal-mart. My wife runs a store, and with our discount I ended up getting it for about $200. If I have any issues, know i won't have any trouble with the return.
The system specs are
windows 7 pro 64 bit,
intel core 2 2.66ghz
4 GB of RAM 600mhz
1 TB harddrive
305 watt power supply
I teach part time at a local community college, as this thing sits it should be fine for doing that type of stuff. However I have always wanted to build a PC from scratch, but right now it's not in my budget. As a hobby I like to shoot pictures, primarily birds. I think with a little bit of money I can make this machine run Adobe Lightroom and Elements smoothly.
I have done a little research, I have found some solved questions, but those were from years back and those suggested parts are unavailable. So sorry to kind of dig up old questions.
I do know the mother board supports 8gb of ram at 800mhz, Joy sytems installed 4 1 gb cards. What will be the best way to get to the 8 max? 2 4gb cards or 4 2gb cards. Will i see a difference in going from 600mhz to 800mhz, should i just buy what is cheaper?
I wanted to put the old SATA hard drive out of my old machine in, but the hard drive cage is far away from the SAtA ports on the mother board. So I guess I will need to buy a longer cable. I have about 4-5 ports, will the current psu handle as many as three maybe? I was thinking of making a laptop hard drive fit in the 3.5 floppy expansion. Any reason why I couldn't do that?
picture below is the expansion configuration
I have read that windows and adobe like to use virtual memory? The more hard drives the better. I plan on buying some solid state drives but not right away. I figure i might be able to use these in a future machine.
I was also think I might need a graphics card. I'm not going to game, but the integrated graphics is quite lacking. I honestly don't have a clue here. Do certain cards get along better with adobe? I also think I might have a space problem. This machine has a very large heat sink and cooling system for the cpu.
As you can see the caps are really close to the slot also, and what are the other slots for?
With I need to upgrade the PSU also? the cable system seem limited, and I'm not sure if 305 watts will be enough with any graphics card installed.
And last but not least what is this ribbon cable for? as far as I can tell it connects to nothing, But it will be in the way of a graphics card.
Thanks for taking the time to read all of this. I hope I haven't beat a dead topic up, I know this is an older build.
Thanks,
James
My name is James, and I'm defiantly new. Well my old Vista machine had a motherboard failure and I needed a cheap computer quick. I ended up ordering a Joy Systems refurbished Dell 755 MT through Wal-mart. My wife runs a store, and with our discount I ended up getting it for about $200. If I have any issues, know i won't have any trouble with the return.
The system specs are
windows 7 pro 64 bit,
intel core 2 2.66ghz
4 GB of RAM 600mhz
1 TB harddrive
305 watt power supply
I teach part time at a local community college, as this thing sits it should be fine for doing that type of stuff. However I have always wanted to build a PC from scratch, but right now it's not in my budget. As a hobby I like to shoot pictures, primarily birds. I think with a little bit of money I can make this machine run Adobe Lightroom and Elements smoothly.
I have done a little research, I have found some solved questions, but those were from years back and those suggested parts are unavailable. So sorry to kind of dig up old questions.
I do know the mother board supports 8gb of ram at 800mhz, Joy sytems installed 4 1 gb cards. What will be the best way to get to the 8 max? 2 4gb cards or 4 2gb cards. Will i see a difference in going from 600mhz to 800mhz, should i just buy what is cheaper?
I wanted to put the old SATA hard drive out of my old machine in, but the hard drive cage is far away from the SAtA ports on the mother board. So I guess I will need to buy a longer cable. I have about 4-5 ports, will the current psu handle as many as three maybe? I was thinking of making a laptop hard drive fit in the 3.5 floppy expansion. Any reason why I couldn't do that?
picture below is the expansion configuration
I have read that windows and adobe like to use virtual memory? The more hard drives the better. I plan on buying some solid state drives but not right away. I figure i might be able to use these in a future machine.
I was also think I might need a graphics card. I'm not going to game, but the integrated graphics is quite lacking. I honestly don't have a clue here. Do certain cards get along better with adobe? I also think I might have a space problem. This machine has a very large heat sink and cooling system for the cpu.
As you can see the caps are really close to the slot also, and what are the other slots for?
With I need to upgrade the PSU also? the cable system seem limited, and I'm not sure if 305 watts will be enough with any graphics card installed.
And last but not least what is this ribbon cable for? as far as I can tell it connects to nothing, But it will be in the way of a graphics card.
Thanks for taking the time to read all of this. I hope I haven't beat a dead topic up, I know this is an older build.
Thanks,
James
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