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Desktop imrovement!! Help

Topic started by cerrulean sky on 13 June 2009

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13 June 2009, 07:29 pm

I have a laptop (not suitable for gaming) but in my house there is this 5-ish year old desktop which i want to convert into a gaming rig.

The desktop is a Dell Dimension 8400:

What are the steps required to do improve it??

Thanks for helping this newbie.

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15 June 2009, 04:46 pm

Hmm.... when you say gaming do you mean like crysis or like casual gaming?


The pc its self isn't that bad but you will want a way better graphics card and possibly a new processor. And you may want to get a new hard drive and do a clean install of the windows 7 RC as over 5 years your computer will have gathered up alot of junk.


For a graphics card I would recommend a ATi HD4850 or maybe a Nvidia 9800GT but really the more you pay the better you get so the more money you spend the better.


Also for a processor if you want to upgrade I would go for a cheap intel quad core make sure its a socket 775 CPU.

Oh and a other important thing check to see if your graphics card slot is a PCI-E or AGP if its AGP your going to be very limited for graphics cards.

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