Customizing an Already-Owned Computer

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dkm817

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Hi, I hope you are having a good day.
I purchased about a year or 2 ago a Dell XPS 8300 (specs here - http://www.cnet.com/products/dell-xps-8300-core-i5-2300-2-8-ghz-6-gb-1-tb/specs/) Initially I wanted it for its processing power, but now I'm starting to get into computer gaming. I've been looking into playing games like Battlefield 4 and I've noticed that my computer lacks in a couple aspects, graphics card and RAM.
My Question: Is there any way to customize my already owned Dell XPS 8300 to play high-quality games so that I don't have to buy a brand new $800 computer. What I'm looking to getting is any Radeon 7000s series Video Card and 8 GB RAM, but I know that it requires more components than just buying the GFX card and RAM and plugging it in.
Any help is appreciated!
 
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Dell computers have a service tag. Use that, go to the Dell site and see if you can find a link to the service manual. Post the link to the service manual (not the service tag) here and it may be possible to see if the PSU is capable to support a GPU and what it will take to upgrade your RAM.

The Core i5-2300 is still a decent mid/budget CPU.
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Dell computers have a service tag. Use that, go to the Dell site and see if you can find a link to the service manual. Post the link to the service manual (not the service tag) here and it may be possible to see if the PSU is capable to support a GPU and what it will take to upgrade your RAM.

The Core i5-2300 is still a decent mid/budget CPU.
 
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dasulman

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urm actually, since its a sandy bridge I5, there's no reason for a CPU bottleneck for a graphics card
your motherboard is a h67 with a pci 16, so you can plug in any sort of video card and it should run well enough on that motherboard.
The main problem is the ram, since I can't find the exact spec of the MOBO, I don't know if it can take 1600mhz + memory.
If you just want the GPU - open the case up and measure the GPU length for the motherboard. If its a small space, there's a mini gtx 760 by MSI available.
To be more accurate - download the program "speccy" by piriform, run it and post a screenshot of the basics on here please.
oh don't forget, if upgrading gpu - get a new PSU.
 
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dkm817

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Thanks for the quick reply!
Here is the service manual...
ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_desktop/esuprt_xps_desktop/xps-8300_service%20manual_en-us.pdf
 
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