switching Mobos on Dell

[rebith75]

So right now I have a Dell GX260, it has a pentium 2ghz and agp, I was looking at upgrading the mobo to one that has either am2 or a 939 (to get an opteron 1.8ghz dual core, i think 165...) and pci-e (to do some gx10 gaming later on). is it as easy as taking the old mobo out and dropping a new one in or does dell have some weird case that wont allow this (the case is small desktop). Or i suppose I could just get a case and take out all the Dell stuff (hd, ram, cdrom, power, ) and drop it in the new case...Anyway thanks for the help

 

[AVP]

dont know the answer to your question but maybe measure your mobo and see if the dimensions are similar to a matx board. The holes might be drilled differently, however, but it is a start. If you do have to move everything out, and want a cheap case, check out the rosewell ones on newegg, for thirty dollars they might save you a hassle.

 

[o1die]

I second the rosewill case. One was around $20 including shipping at newegg. Sell your Dell intact and use the dough for a complete new build. It's not that easy to switch out boards and power supplies in most dell systems. They aren't designed to be upgradable. Dell would rather you buy a new system. If you don't want to build your own, office max and circuit city have some cheap systems with LCD for around $400-500. Fry's this weekend has 3 systems with $100 rebate that makes them around $150 after rebate. You have a choice of sempron or celeron with vista basic.