Purchased a Dell PC :)

[Recursion]

An operating system install's on the harddrive, not CPU.

I know what I am talking about. :/

The CPU would be considered as a major upgrade I would have thought? I would go check this up on the MS site or something.

[Dentafrice]

Good luck upgrading the GFX card with a Dell.

It isn't hard, I upgraded my old GeForce. Took about 15 minutes.

Whats hard about upgrading a gfx on dell? Open it, Insert new gfx, close it, turn it on.

I don't see the hard part in that...

And I will also beupgrading:

CPU, RAM & probably case

I think it will work out cheaper then custom

I don't really like the case, graphics card, and sound card.. I would never go with integrated sound.

It sounds like ****

The mobos on Dells are great, they aren't "standard", but they are easy to upgrade dispite what everyone says.

I know what I am talking about. :/

The CPU would be considered as a major upgrade I would have thought? I would go check this up on the MS site or something.

I'm pretty sure you don't, I swapped in a new CPU in my old 8300, didn't need a new one for XP.

[Recursion]

It isn't hard, I upgraded my old GeForce. Took about 15 minutes.



I don't really like the case, graphics card, and sound card.. I would never go with integrated sound.

It sounds like ****

The mobos on Dells are great, they aren't "standard", but they are easy to upgrade dispite what everyone says.



I'm pretty sure you don't, I swapped in a new CPU in my old 8300, didn't need a new one for XP.

Ok, I did a bit of Google'ing and found it was different for OEM and Retail editions of XP/Vista, Dell will use OEM. Apparently OEM copies just look for the same motherboard so you can upgrade anything else.

[Dentafrice]

Oh, so retail versions look for major upgrades?

[Stephen!]

An operating system install's on the harddrive, not CPU.

wow i did not know that

[Recursion]

Retail looks for hardware, there must be 6 out 10 hardware the same for it to activate.

[Flisker]

Well RAM, GFX and CPU cant be one of them as they are standard changeable components.

Also, Intergrated sound is fine... I have no problems with it.

[The Professor]

Did I only see the integrated graphics card in there? From what I've experienced with my old Dell, they're pretty poor for pretty much any gamesmade within the last 5 years or so. Then again, I got mine in 04 so idk what the standard is like now. Dells are always a safe bet, nothing special but good value and good longetivity, mine was running for the best part of 4 years before the HDD burnt out

Whoever said changing the graphics card in a Dell is hard... it really isn't. I'd never taken apart any component of a PC before, took me about 20 mins with no guidance whasoever, worked absolutely fine.

[Flisker]

They obviously didn't know how a computer works. I can't wait for it to be delivered 23/05/08 or sooner it will be delivered

[Zaub]

I wasn't sure about the GFX upgrade, but I know you need to buy special RAM from Dell if you wanna upgrade RAM.