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"Beefing up the PC"

Right, as many of you may have seen I know pretty much nothing about computers.

A year and a half ago my parents got me a Dell Dimension 2400, mainly as it was quite good value for what I wanted it for. (Internet, writing essays and storing music/pictures).

However, I kind of want to play new games on it now but this system isn't that great for it... so I'm going to upgrade it as best I can. I probably should just use the money to buy a mac or something but my parents would go mental, probably.

Here it is here [URL]http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-Dell_Dimension_2400_Cel_2_20GHz_128MB_40GB[/URL]

I have only have one slot for memory, so I'm thinking of getting a stick of 512 RAM, plus I need a really good graphics card.

Erm, so please help tell me what I need and any suggestions. Plus, do I need a new motherboard?

If I buy two 512mb RAM (PC3200) and they don't work I will come round and mount you, do you hear?

SHEEPY wrote:
> Do you promise?

Yep.

monkey_man wrote:
> I'd love to get a better graphics card for my laptop, but I don't
> think you can do that sort of thing, can you?

I think some Alienwares may support it.
Otherwise, no.

I hope you're not asking me.

I'd love to get a better graphics card for my laptop, but I don't think you can do that sort of thing, can you?

Cool

Thanks for your help everyone.

Radeon 9800 Pro
[URL]http://uk.special.reserve.co.uk/q_GG1560_sapphire_ati_radeo.html[/URL]

I got one and it runs Half-Life2 & Far Cry on very high settings smoothly, highest with slight slowdown.
Dont know about the other stuff

mermoid wrote:
> SHEEPY wrote:
> Some website mentioned I could have trouble running the PC3200 card
> at 800mhz or something? Bah I'm getting my manual out.
>
> The motherboard supports 333MHz, but PC3200 is 400MHz.
> It doesn't matter though, it'll just run at the slower speed.

Do you promise?

PC3200 is listed as an option for this system and will either operate at 266MHz or 333MHz depending on the FSB setting. The system is not capable of operating with an 800MHz FSB so it cannot operate the PC3200 at 400MHz.

Boo

SHEEPY wrote:
> Some website mentioned I could have trouble running the PC3200 card
> at 800mhz or something? Bah I'm getting my manual out.

The motherboard supports 333MHz, but PC3200 is 400MHz.
It doesn't matter though, it'll just run at the slower speed.