Hello everyone I'm new in these forum and I hope you guys can answer my questions. This is my situation:
I have a Dell xps 420, I bought it used and its pretty old, I think this model was made on 2008. I've been using this pc a couple months and it runs good, I play league of legends and I don't have any problems, but I want to play other games that require more and my pc right now is not able to do that. Here are my pc specifications:
Dell XPS 420.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450, 2.66GHz, 4.00Gb of ram, 64-bit operating system, windows 7 Professional.
The graphic card is Radeon HD 4670 with 512 MBytes.
My power supply only support 305W Max.
The motherboard model is: QTP406 from Dell Inc.
The thing is that I want to upgrade my graphics card, but I will need to upgrade my power supply too so it can support a decent graphics card, and I want to make sure that is compatible with my motherboard.
Here are my questions:
- Should I upgrade? is it really worth it?
-If you think I should upgrade what graphics card+power supply should I get?
-Is it really difficult to change the graphics card and power supply?
I don't want to spend more than $200, and how do I know if the power supply is gonna fit on my computer? I don't think I would have problems with that though because its really big.
And another thing, please don't tell me that I should buy another computer because I don't have the money for that, is or I do it, or I just don't and it all good.
Thank you, I appreciate your answers.
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mfenn
General Hardware Moderator
I have a Dell xps 420, I bought it used and its pretty old, I think this model was made on 2008. I've been using this pc a couple months and it runs good, I play league of legends and I don't have any problems, but I want to play other games that require more and my pc right now is not able to do that. Here are my pc specifications:
Dell XPS 420.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450, 2.66GHz, 4.00Gb of ram, 64-bit operating system, windows 7 Professional.
The graphic card is Radeon HD 4670 with 512 MBytes.
My power supply only support 305W Max.
The motherboard model is: QTP406 from Dell Inc.
The thing is that I want to upgrade my graphics card, but I will need to upgrade my power supply too so it can support a decent graphics card, and I want to make sure that is compatible with my motherboard.
Here are my questions:
- Should I upgrade? is it really worth it?
-If you think I should upgrade what graphics card+power supply should I get?
-Is it really difficult to change the graphics card and power supply?
I don't want to spend more than $200, and how do I know if the power supply is gonna fit on my computer? I don't think I would have problems with that though because its really big.
And another thing, please don't tell me that I should buy another computer because I don't have the money for that, is or I do it, or I just don't and it all good.
Thank you, I appreciate your answers.
Moved from Computer Help
mfenn
General Hardware Moderator
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