I want to upgrade my cpu

This topic has been moved from the section CPU & Components to section Systems by Mousemonkey

Upgrading that dell is going to be very difficult, and expensive. I would recommend saving up, and either buying a new pre built, or build your own.

Tomshardware has a terrific article everyday with good deals on prebuilts. If you'd like to build your own, do a lot of research, and a lot of searching.

U need to change the CPU + mobo + RAM to make it worth.

Intel Core i5-2310 Sandy Bridge $180
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

ASRock H77M LGA 1155 Intel H77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

$75

G.SKILL Value Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

$39.99

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Q6600-Quad-Core-Processor-C...

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Quad-Core-Processor-1066MHz...

These are the only two cpu's that you can upgrade to with the LGA 775 socket MB that you have.
Your other option is to see if a standard atx motherboard will fit into that Dell case you have so that you could upgrade the cpu , MB and ram.

U don't have to upgrade with budget $400.

Install what I posted and have brand new 4x faster PC.

If u don't have windows retail, than u need to purchase new windows.


So get Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit OEM ~ $99.99 @ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=32-116-...

As a student, u can get even better deal, check http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/cat/categor...

So, all the listed with OS+CPU+new RAM+new motherboard = less than $400

And your PC will leave that DELL in dust in anything u do!

And u getting a quad core CPU.

If you could bump your budget up to around $500, you could get all of this:

Core i5-2500k, awesome processor, I'm amazed by it.
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Core-2500K-Processor-1155/d...

Same motherboard as mine, except with PCI slots
http://www.amazon.com/MSI-Computer-Corp-Motherboards-Z7...

Pretty Memory, fast too
http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengeance-240-Pin-Platfor...

Motherboard doesn't support IDE so you need this
http://www.amazon.com/Asus-24xDVD-RW-Serial-Internal-DR...

Some case I found:
http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Carbide-Windowed-Gaming-C...

And you could just reuse the dell power supply and hard drive, and WALA! A brand new spanking fast computer. Don't bother upgrading the CPU, or putting anything different in that crappy case, if you were to reuse the power supply, I would think of getting a new one in the future, since dell power supplies aren't exactly that powerful and top-of-the-line.