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2008-03-28 16:10:59

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|6989|Riva, MD

O.K., so the tech coordinator at my school (who I work with), got a shipment of Dell Optiplex GX280s from the Navy, and he might be able to give me one. It beats my current computer in every category except hard drive capacity, RAM capacity, and graphics card. I can probably just drop my HDD from my old one into this one and then put the other into my old box and give it to my brother.

My current specs(upgraded HP Pavilion 750n):

2.4GHz Pentium 4 512KB cache running on Socket 478 400MHz FSB
2GB PC2700 RAM running at 133MHz
Radeon X1650Pro 256MB running on an AGP 4x bus
160GB Western Digital ATA-100 8MB cache

The Optiplex GX280's specs:

3.2GHz Pentium w/ Hyper-Threading 1MB cache running on LGA 775 800MHz FSB
512MB PC2 4200 RAM running at 200MHz
Radeon X300 running on a PCI-e bus (don't know how much memory), only has one DVI slot (no VGA) but I have a converter for VGA
80GB (Samsung I think and I'm not sure how big the cache is) ATA-100 but the mobo itself has SATA ports

How should I upgrade it?

I got ideas for these:

CPU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6819115032

RAM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6820141199

Last edited by _j5689_ (2008-03-28 16:13:26)

2008-03-28 16:16:42

Bell: Frosties > Cornflakes; +362|6821|UK

What you going to use it for?

Martyn

2008-03-28 16:18:29

[TUF]Whiskey_Oktober: mmmm...Toasty!; +91|6994|Oregon

good luck upgrading it at all...from my experience dell makes their stuff very hard to upgrade anything besides memory and HDDs. i would be surprised if the mobo supports anything but the chip already on it.

but for memory, i would get this. cheaper. better. its what i have, only i paid about 4x as much not just 1.5years ago.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6820145034

Last edited by [TUF]Whiskey_Oktober (2008-03-28 16:21:28)

2008-03-28 16:25:46

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|6989|Riva, MD

Bell wrote:
What you going to use it for?

Martyn

Gaming

I'd like to see Company of Heroes actually play smoothly for once.

2008-03-28 16:33:14

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|6989|Riva, MD

[TUF]Whiskey_Oktober wrote:
good luck upgrading it at all...from my experience dell makes their stuff very hard to upgrade anything besides memory and HDDs. i would be surprised if the mobo supports anything but the chip already on it.

but for memory, i would get this. cheaper. better. its what i have, only i paid about 4x as much not just 1.5years ago.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6820145034

Looks good except it's got higher CAS latency and I don't plan on overclocking, from the 10 second glance I got at the BIOS today, I didn't see anything about 1066 FSB switch. One of the reviews say that that kind of RAM has trouble with backwards compatibility as well.

Last edited by _j5689_ (2008-03-28 16:35:49)

2008-03-29 09:54:06

BeerzGod: Hooray Beer!; +94|6842|United States

It's a Dell system. Upgrading isn't even worth it. Take the two computers, sell them, and build yourself a new one with a little money added in? You might be able to get at least $300 a piece for those, if you put them on craigslist. Then you could build a computer with up to date specs that would put those both to shame without going much over $600 if at all.

2008-03-29 10:21:08

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6469|Winland

Well, after googling some pix, it seems like the Optiplex is one of the Dell super-small form factor computers. Just take it's CPU and put it into your current computer.

EDIT: Ofuck, you can't.

I say, sell them. You could get some cash from that. There's no use in upgrading either, really.

Last edited by Freezer7Pro (2008-03-29 10:21:53)

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2008-03-29 11:04:51

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|6989|Riva, MD

Freezer7Pro wrote:
Well, after googling some pix, it seems like the Optiplex is one of the Dell super-small form factor computers. Just take it's CPU and put it into your current computer.

EDIT: Ofuck, you can't.

I say, sell them. You could get some cash from that. There's no use in upgrading either, really.

This is the full-size tower version.

2008-03-29 11:11:07

Funky_Finny: Banned; +456|6405|Carnoustie, Scotland

I'd sell it tbh.
Dells are SHIT. Very hard to upgrade, impossible to OC anything (Unless you're replacing the stock part, which you can't do for CPU).

Make some other sucker think it's good, hell you'll get a good 300 quid maybe for that. Upgrade your current comp, although there's not much you can do.
You've got pretty much the same spec computer as me..
Slow ram though, mines is 667Mhz

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