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    Computer Unsavvy Help Needed

    Just thought I would give you guys an update on my upgrade progress. I happen to have two Identical Dell Systems. The only problem was one has crashed hard. So I took the gig of Ram out of that one and put it in the computer that is running in order to up the Ram to at least 2G. I then went...
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    Okay a couple more questions here, and possible problem i have seen doing research. HD question first: Does the Size of the Hard Drive really matter with regards to performance. IE do I really need a 1Tb HD when I barely use 1/2 of my 250 Gb hard drive. IE this should do me fine a 500...
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    Computer Unsavvy Help Needed

    Okay moving along in this undertanding to make sure i do this correctly. Down load the latest BIOS and put them on thumb drive to load onto new CPU. Look at getting the 7200rpm version of HD. I am assuming with higher RPM it means that it will find data faster and allow for smoother...
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    Computer Unsavvy Help Needed

    Okay so i compared the Radeon HD 4850 with the GTS 250 and it looked like the HD 4850 was a far better card am I correct in this assumption. If so I may shop around for best price on this one. So the prognosis is I will be upgrading to: Radeon HD 4850 CPU Intel Pentium D 945 3.4GHz 800MHz...
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    Computer Unsavvy Help Needed

    First of all thank you very much for everyone who responded. Now that i have some good advice and thanks to Lanyap finding the specs i can now become more detailed on my questions. I have looked at the Dell upgrades and I have a few questions: Hard Drives: Okay bigger size understand...
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    Computer Unsavvy Help Needed

    Okay so here I am a completely un-knowledgable person seeking advice and this site was recommended to me by a friend. I have a DELL XPS/Dimension 400/9150 bout almost 4 years ago. I found the following format on the Video Card Forum and figured it would work here. I loaded my Service Tag number...