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November 24th, 2005, 08:40 AM
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Fried, Dells take the same upgrade parts as everybody else. Just can't use cheap RAM. | 
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November 24th, 2005, 09:08 AM
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Originally Posted by osprey4 Fried, Dells take the same upgrade parts as everybody else. Just can't use cheap RAM. | Where did you hear that? Every week we get a thread asking how to upgrade a Dell and the first response is that Dell uses proprietary PSUs and motherboards.
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November 24th, 2005, 09:35 AM
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Not really, now they are going to standard ATX/BTX [if BTX stays].
And, the x800GT would be a lot better than the 6800. | |
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November 24th, 2005, 11:12 AM
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This Dell power supply adapter shows their PSU's were proprietary from 1998 to about 2002. Like osprey & Reather have said, Dell switched to ATX or BTX over the past 3 years.
I have a Dimension 8100. An adapter wasn't ever made for it. It is the one that uses a standard ATX connector with a non-standard pinout. | |
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November 24th, 2005, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Reather Not really, now they are going to standard ATX/BTX [if BTX stays].
And, the x800GT would be a lot better than the 6800. | How much better? My video card is constantly overheating and crashing because it's fanless and I'm going to RMA it soon. If they will let me I'm going to see if I can trade the card out because I haven't really had a good experience with nVidia so far compared to my old ATi cards.
Also, I wouldn't get the x800GT i'd get the Sapphire GTO2 and flash it to a X850 XT PE.
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November 24th, 2005, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by DarkStar02 Out of curiosity- what is better. A 6800 or that video card you posted Ex? | A 6800 would be better(about 5%)...but the 6600 GT is only $100 now after the $40 MIR...so the 6600 GT would be the better deal by far. 
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Originally Posted by Friedchicken100 Where did you hear that? Every week we get a thread asking how to upgrade a Dell and the first response is that Dell uses proprietary PSUs and motherboards. |
Yes, everyone says that because that is all they hear...well, it is completely false. I have a Thermaltake Purepower 420w in my dell...works fine, and has since Spring when I bought it...and I know of a few people who dropped new s939 mobos in their dell cases without any problems. So dell uses standard ATX equipment...but everyone thinks they don't... Well, dell doesn't use ATX anymore...but that is because they are using BTX, but they are using the BTX standard now. 
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Originally Posted by Reather And, the x800GT would be a lot better than the 6800. |
The X800 GT is not any better than the 6800...the 6800 is better than the X800 GT...because the X800 GT is just a hair better than the 6600 GT...well, lets just say that they are all very close.
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November 24th, 2005, 05:29 PM
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and if I got the Sapphire GTO2 and flash it to a X850 XT PE..?
Or if I ran dual 6600GT's in SLi? | |
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December 21st, 2005, 01:25 AM
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I'm about to buy a New Dell Dimension E510.
I'm new in the PC area, so bare with me.
The Dell comes with a (upgrade) Radeon x600, which I might get...but I was thinking about getting a Geforce 6600 instead. Is there anything special the Geforce 6600 should have to be able to use in the Dimension e510? I know the SOCKETS the Dimension e510 775, but does it matter when purcahsing a video card? or does the socket only bother with CPUs and Motherboards? Please, help me out. Thanks alot in advance.
BTW, hello and I'm new  
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December 21st, 2005, 01:46 AM
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Originally Posted by MaeEye I'm about to buy a New Dell Dimension E510.
I'm new in the PC area, so bare with me.
The Dell comes with a (upgrade) Radeon x600, which I might get...but I was thinking about getting a Geforce 6600 instead. Is there anything special the Geforce 6600 should have to be able to use in the Dimension e510? I know the SOCKETS the Dimension e510 775, but does it matter when purcahsing a video card? or does the socket only bother with CPUs and Motherboards? Please, help me out. Thanks alot in advance.
BTW, hello and I'm new | Hi welcome you should make a new thread and not hijack others but since you are new i will let it pass sockets are onley for prosessors but there is agp and pci-e witch are slots on the mobo for the graphics card you need to know it you have agp or pci-e before buying a new card and if you have pci-e then you need a pci-e card and vice versa good luck with that  . | |
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just get 4gb of ram and a bad ass video card and maybe a psu will be needed | |
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