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Tom's Hardware > Forum > Homebuilt Systems > General Homebuilt > Can you please give me your opinion on an upgrade?

Can you please give me your opinion on an upgrade?

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Hi, every time I've been thinking of upgrading I've come here and as a result I've always been happy with whatever I've bought. I have a Dell Dimension 4700. I replaced the RAM with 2 gigs of DDR2 266mhz RAM, kept the P4 3ghz processor, new hard drives, a radeon x1800xt, new psu. I'm wanting to upgrade as the processor is really bottlenecking the system. I was thinking of adding these to the mix and would love to hear your advice:

MOTHERBOARD:
GA-P35C-DS3R S775 P35 ATX motherboard £100

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-G [...] 366&sr=8-1

CASE:
Nzxt Lexa ATX case £100

http://www.amazon.co.uk/NZXT-LEXA- [...] 620&sr=1-1

RAM:
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB) £70

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/show [...] subcat=813

PROCESSOR:
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £200

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/show [...] =CP-161-IN

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that should be great so long as your dell operating system doesn't start messing up because you no longer have a dell bios

Reply to spuddyt

Ahh good point, I'll probs pick up a new hard drive and do a fresh install of windows. Thanks!

Reply to nATASTNA2

I'm just about to order this now so if anyone knows of any reason why my computer and these new parts should not be joined in technological matrimony please say so now.

Reply to nATASTNA2

I have a Dell Vista version on a homebuilt computer without any problems.

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