Hi there, first time poster on Tom's Hardware.
I made an incredibly stupid purchase around November 2008, and bought myself a Dell XPS 420 costing me around £1300 with screen, speakers and some gaming gear.
In terms of the computer, i soon came to realise that it was really not worth it.
Here are the hardware specs:
q9400 2.66ghz
6gb RAM
ATI Radeon 3870x2 GPU 1gb
425w PSU.
750gb Hard drive.
XFI Xtream gamer soundcard.
I bought a bunch of hardware peripherals along with this, but i'm more than fine with them.
Ideally i'm looking at upgrading my RAM to a faster speed, since it's currently only 667mhz at the moment.
However the main issue I'm haping is upgrading the graphics card.
Ideally i want a 4870 x2. However i'm pretty sure my PSU will not be able to handle this, or will it?
If not, any recommendation on a new PSU?
I'm also thinking about overclocking, however currently i'm pretty sure that the stock stuff dell has given me is not any good for this. Again, any ideas?
Also i'm pretty fed up of the locked up dell bios, so i'm considering even changing the motherboard.
Any ideas to what i should do?
I'm rather confused since I know how a PC works in theory, yet i've never reallyd one anything more than change RAM.
Thanks,
Android Man
I made an incredibly stupid purchase around November 2008, and bought myself a Dell XPS 420 costing me around £1300 with screen, speakers and some gaming gear.
In terms of the computer, i soon came to realise that it was really not worth it.
Here are the hardware specs:
q9400 2.66ghz
6gb RAM
ATI Radeon 3870x2 GPU 1gb
425w PSU.
750gb Hard drive.
XFI Xtream gamer soundcard.
I bought a bunch of hardware peripherals along with this, but i'm more than fine with them.
Ideally i'm looking at upgrading my RAM to a faster speed, since it's currently only 667mhz at the moment.
However the main issue I'm haping is upgrading the graphics card.
Ideally i want a 4870 x2. However i'm pretty sure my PSU will not be able to handle this, or will it?
If not, any recommendation on a new PSU?
I'm also thinking about overclocking, however currently i'm pretty sure that the stock stuff dell has given me is not any good for this. Again, any ideas?
Also i'm pretty fed up of the locked up dell bios, so i'm considering even changing the motherboard.
Any ideas to what i should do?
I'm rather confused since I know how a PC works in theory, yet i've never reallyd one anything more than change RAM.
Thanks,
Android Man