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......Some of my components arrived via USPS. One thing...I went for highest percentage alcohol I could find and that turned out to be 91%. If that isn't of sufficient strength I will replace it.
Here is the RAM and HDD. I mistakenly thought the HDD was a WD Black. It is a WD Blue.
KR,
Bruce
Yeah, a lot of Dell PCs use their own design which can make upgrading certain components difficult. It's something to keep in mind when someone wants to upgrade a Dell machine.Computer0304 said:
Hard drives, no problems. Video cards check case size and PSU, PSU's check case size. motherboard check standoffs (some cases are ATX straight swap, others, particularly older models, can have different screw hole layouts.
That should be fine. As long as it removes all the existing paste from both the top of the CPU and bottom of the cooler.
......It has been a few days, but I finally went in and cleaned up the CPU. I tried, but couldn't take a very good image to post that was clear enough to decipher the legend. Got out the ol' spyglass and did it by hand.
I'll list everything I got in order from the top to bottom
- Intel '06 QX9650
- Intel Core2 Extreme
- SLAWN MALAY
- 3.00GHZ/12M/1333/05B
- L806B336
I hope this is ok.
KR,
Bruce
......The CPU #'s again, from top to bottom:
- Intel '05 Q6600
- Intel Core2 QUAD
- SLACR MALAY
- 2.40GHZ/8M/1066/05A
- L808B266
Cheers,
KR
Bruce
......Thanks for the comment. I will go with the extreme.
Now, back to video/graphic cards. I can get the following card, from ebay, new old stock, for $21. That fits my budget. Will it be sufficient for WIN 7 ? I can always upgrade later. This isn't a do or die situation, as I have been searching through many sources of different cards. I hope to get one that I can utilize efficiently on this platform. I still have a second hard drive to come up with, so I still have time to shop around.
KR.
Bruce
This is a
1 HD4550 PCI-E Graphics card
New cards, bulk packaging.
ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 Graphics
With all the latest features, the ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 graphics cards deliver an incredible visual experience with best in class performance. Enjoy unprecedented levels of graphics realism and play the latest games with support for Microsoft DirectX® 10.1. Add this graphics card to your PC and watch Blu-ray movies and HD content play with incredible visual fidelity1, and view digital photos with over 1 billion colors2. Do it all with break-through efficiency that doesn’t compromise performance.
Features & Benefits
- 80 Stream Processing Units provide enough power to tackle demanding games and applications.
- Enhanced Anti-Aliasing (AA) & Anisotropic Filtering (AF) - High performance anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing (4X AA) smooth jagged edges and create true-to-life graphics, for everything from grass to facial features.
- Watch the hottest Blu-ray movies or other HD content at full 1080p1 display resolution and beyond.3
- Integrated DisplayPort technology4 with audio is an innovative digital solution that supports the latest graphics and LCD technologies.
- The ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 graphics card consumes less than 25 watts under full load, making it the ideal choice for implementation across a large diverse install base of desktop PCs.
- Second generation 55nm chip uses the industry’s most energy efficient manufacturing process.
I think it will if it was made near 2008 (My PC was made at that time and I am running integrated graphics for Win7 fine)
Another thing to say: This card runs DirectX 10 and if you are going to play slightly new games, you may want to get a DirectX11 card if possible. If not, it will be fine.