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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?

gerrid speaks my common sense.

Yes you could fail miserably. If you're not confident then go to a shop asnd ask them to do it. It'll usually cost about £50. You may end up wiring the PSU wrong and melting all your hard earned components.

Right I'm building a PC from scratch... is there a chance I will fail miserably.

Also, is it easy to set up my broadband as long as I still have the software?

AMD 64, no doubt, but wait until they make a MOBO with PCI-E support, that will have you sorted, just leave it a good 2 months.

It's Celeron, 2.2GHZ actually.

I'm trying to figure out what's the best thing to save up for now.

Heh, I highly doubt a 3000+ and 3GHZ especially on air cooling. The people that get there clock speeds nearly as high as that on any AMD will only keep it there for a fraction of time to run a benchmark, not for 6 months like you. Anyways ill let you know how my o/c project goes soon. In ordered some arctic silver 5 and a volcano 12. Hoping to get 200 MHz-300 MHz out of my Athlon 3200+.

Okay, in response to Sheepy again, is the CPU a Celeron 2.4GHz or a P4 2.2GHz? In the description at the top it says Celeron, but under key features it says Pentium 4...

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secret_squirrel™ wrote:
> 1: Do you people even have a clue what you are talking about when it
> comes to processors and overclocking?

I don't claim to, but there are people here who certainly do. Mr Biggles knows a hell of a lot more than most people here about this subject. I'm sure he doesn't claim to be an expert on the subject, but he knows a darn sight more than most.

Anyone with that kind of overclock would jump at the chance to flaunt it, admit you were wrong and then we can forgive and forget.