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i have a 5th gen xps, the motherboard in it is no good anymore, i was wondering what a good replacement would be? it has IntelĀ® PentiumĀ® 4 Extreme Edition, dual processing i believe, i do a lot of photography editing, and gaming, i would like something that could still use the type of ram thats in it, i was looking at a 9800 gx2 but it uses ddr3, any help would be nice, thanks

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You have system RAM and GDDR grapics RAM confused. The GDDR3 a 9800GX2 uses has nothing to do with the RAM your MB may use. I believe any Intel Chipset from P35 back will support a P4 socket 775 processor. If you have an older P4 socket 478, which is what I believe you have, finding a new MB is much difficult. If that is the case, better to upgrade the entire system. New MB, RAM, CPU VC, etc.

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sorry i'm kinda new to computers, i was thinking the wrong thing when i posted, i meant to ask if the 790i ultra sli would work with what i have now, with the 2GB ram i have, and the 2 geforce 6 series gpu's (6800 i believe, model:p260)
the specs for my computer are here http://support.dell.com/support/ed [...] #wp1052939

if i had to redo my computer what would be a good cpu, mb, ram and anything else i might need? i do tons of pictures, and gaming, and watch movies

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Those spec list the chipset as being Nvidia nForce4 SLI. That is an AMD chipset. So, an Intel P4 will not work with an AMD socket 939 MB.

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okay, the specs must be for a different gen, because i looked it over and found the sticker saying pentium 4 on it, i looked up the 5th gen specs but all i could find was that it had was a single Radeon X800 XT PE, mine has dual gpu's in it, this is were i found the info http://www.trustedreviews.com/pcs/ [...] ming-PC/p1

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i just found out it has a 64-bit, 3.8GHz Intel 670 processor

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