Hello there,
Have a Dell Dimension 8300, purchased back in 2002 I believe. Through the years, have done basically everything I could (maxed the memory, upgraded the PCI graphics card) to increase performance. More recently, I had a hard-drive failure - so the HD is a pretty new 300 GB IDE drive; also needed a new power supply around the same time, so it has a new 400w one.
What I'm wondering is, can I buy something like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.610985
And upgrade the "guts" - mobo, CPU, memory, etc. of my 8300? Or is there a specific reason why not?
Figured it might be a way to get modern-PC performance, on the cheap. If not, I'll probably just go whole hog and do a first-timer build around a i5-2500k and new everything else (case, power supply, mobo, memory, ssd, BD burner, etc).
Any advice is appreciated - thanks for your help. I read the threads about dropping in a dual-core processor in place of my P4 3.0 Ghz Prescott and why that wouldn't work... but I don't recall seeing anything asked quite like my question. Thanks again.
Have a Dell Dimension 8300, purchased back in 2002 I believe. Through the years, have done basically everything I could (maxed the memory, upgraded the PCI graphics card) to increase performance. More recently, I had a hard-drive failure - so the HD is a pretty new 300 GB IDE drive; also needed a new power supply around the same time, so it has a new 400w one.
What I'm wondering is, can I buy something like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.610985
And upgrade the "guts" - mobo, CPU, memory, etc. of my 8300? Or is there a specific reason why not?
Figured it might be a way to get modern-PC performance, on the cheap. If not, I'll probably just go whole hog and do a first-timer build around a i5-2500k and new everything else (case, power supply, mobo, memory, ssd, BD burner, etc).
Any advice is appreciated - thanks for your help. I read the threads about dropping in a dual-core processor in place of my P4 3.0 Ghz Prescott and why that wouldn't work... but I don't recall seeing anything asked quite like my question. Thanks again.