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April 21, 2014 1:27:35 PM

i brought a packard bell imedia s1800 pc for £100 off of a friend of mine , it has 4 gb of ram , 500gb harddrive and the cpu is intel duel core e5000 2.8ghz . just want to know if there any think i could do to pimp it out , i do want it for gaming

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April 21, 2014 1:30:28 PM

well, you could smack a good cooler on it and OC it :D  and what graphics card does it have, if any?
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April 21, 2014 1:45:01 PM

Not much you can do with that without completely rebuilding. You could add in an entry level gpu. R7 250 or 750 depending on if the PSU is any good.

About overclocking, considering its a prebuilt, that option is gone.

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April 21, 2014 1:51:52 PM

well, not all pre-builts have a locked bios, just flash the latest and go have a peek :p 
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April 21, 2014 1:54:25 PM

Danbuscus25 said:
well, not all pre-builts have a locked bios, just flash the latest and go have a peek :p 


All of them that I have looked at do. Plus if its a prebuilt you really don't want to overclock on that thing. They usually use the bare minimum to scrape by. No VRM heatsinks, tiny if any heatsinks on other areas such as the SB.

I wouldn't recommend it.
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April 21, 2014 2:02:46 PM

or if you wanna make this thing make a nice fireworks show, disable the overvoltage protection and flip the switch to 230v :D  capacitors usually blow flames for a minute or 2.
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April 22, 2014 2:21:59 AM

What If I use it for parts ?
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April 22, 2014 5:34:03 AM

Not much you can do with it for parts. The hdd and possibly case is all you'd really be able to use. CPU/mobo are out of production and theres much much better alternatives out. hdd is decent size and ought to be able to be transfered over to a new system as long as its sata and not IDE. PSU is likely old and quite a low wattage. Ram is almost positively DDR2 so not compatible with anything more modern.

You could add in a low power gpu like the R7 250 and get atleast some gaming done. Newer games might either not run at all or low might be fine. Depends.
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