Adding New Hard Drives & Memory

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Hi Karim,

It is working fine, I have had no problems whatsoever, it is reasonably
speedy for my needs and very good value (although shopping around with
other manufacturers, you could probably buy slightly cheaper but I got
a deal whereby I got double memory, printer and upgrade to 19" flat
panel from 17" standard monitor all free)

The only thing I would say is that the graphics card is an ATI X300
with 128mb VRAM, OK for my use but if you want a machine for hardcore
gaming, this will probably need to be upgraded to an nVidia 256mb
card.

Happy Shopping


Ray Wrote:
> I am looking at buying the same machine...how is it working? Are you
> happy
> with the system?
> Any advice?
>
> Karim
>
>
> "bedhead" bedhead.1iod7n@news.computerbanter.com wrote in message
> news:bedhead.1iod7n@news.computerbanter.com...-
>
> Could someone please provide assistance with adding new hard drives.
>
> I have recently purchased a Dell Dimension 8400 P4 3.2 system and
> wish
> to make some of my own upgrades.
>
> The units has 1GB of RAM, 1 x Maxtor 250GB Hard Driver, 1 x DVD ROM
> and
> 1 x DVD RW(16x).
>
> I have breifly looked inside and what seems to be the HDD location
> has
> 1 drive installed with two bays remaining.
>
> The case also seems to have a lot of wasted space, probably for
> airflow.
>
> My problem is I am not sure if there is a limit on the hard drive
> size,
> the installed one seems extremely small to previous ones I have seen.
>
> Also, the connector is not a ribbon, therefore I assume it is SATA
> and
> not ATA, the DVD drives have ribbons.
>
> What do I need to buy, i.e. another Maxtor, do I need power cables,
> and
> how do I connect it all up, there seem to be an awful lot of wires in
> there.
>
> Please help
>
>
> --
> bedhead-


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bedhead