I have a Dell XPS420 with a core 2 quad 6600 cpu. If I upgrade the graphics board and max out the memory will this machine be

[Californiapatrick]

I am wanting to upgrade my machine to use Adobe Premiere Creative Cloud and want to know if this is reasonable or if I need to budget for a new machine?

 

[Kay_18]

My XPS 420 now has a 650W 80+ gold PSU, Geforce GTX750 2GB GPU, Seagate Barracuda 2TB 64MB Cache HDD, Upgraded Ram to 8GB just by simply changing to a 64bit OS which is now windows 10 Pro and I play World of Warcraft without any major issues, it has just recently started to slow barely which I intend to fix by adding an SSD, but it is also likely due to my internet speed being a mere 6Mbps because Im at the end of my exchange. I'm no pc tech I found my answers to upgrading all of which I did myself by a simple google search. I am also running Adobe creative Cloud, I downloaded it just to prove you can run it, and if you weren't embarrased enough by the silly answers (you can only have 4GB Max Ram) I am a blonde female.

can you tell me where you found it what you can upgrade and which psu you have


thx

 

[The Paladin]

anyone looked at the dell model number of their boards ? some XPS 420 and actually support Core 2 Quad Extreme, and that would be a nice upgrade as well for cheapo.... Q6600 is nice but you can push it to a possible QX9350 ort Q8400 for less than a hundred dollars and get a lot more hummft out of their machines.

PS: I run a Q8300 in my office, and it runs everything I have thrown at it as well, 8GB DDr2, 1TB HDD HD 5650 with dual Monitors. runs best on Windows 8.1 than 10 I noticed so I kept it on that O/S. IO am about to give it away to a 11 year old that needs a computer for school. loosing a monitor and a well loved system but it will get a second great life .....

 

[Kay_18]

anyone looked at the dell model number of their boards ? some XPS 420 and actually support Core 2 Quad Extreme, and that would be a nice upgrade as well for cheapo.... Q6600 is nice but you can push it to a possible QX9350 ort Q8400 for less than a hundred dollars and get a lot more hummft out of their machines.

PS: I run a Q8300 in my office, and it runs everything I have thrown at it as well, 8GB DDr2, 1TB HDD HD 5650 with dual Monitors. runs best on Windows 8.1 than 10 I noticed so I kept it on that O/S. IO am about to give it away to a 11 year old that needs a computer for school. loosing a monitor and a well loved system but it will get a second great life .....

can you tell me what ram i need to go from 4 to 8 gb
and what the maximum cpu and gpu is that i can put in?


txh

 

[Askania]

My XPS 420 now has a 650W 80+ gold PSU, Geforce GTX750 2GB GPU, Seagate Barracuda 2TB 64MB Cache HDD, Upgraded Ram to 8GB just by simply changing to a 64bit OS which is now windows 10 Pro and I play World of Warcraft without any major issues, it has just recently started to slow barely which I intend to fix by adding an SSD, but it is also likely due to my internet speed being a mere 6Mbps because Im at the end of my exchange. I'm no pc tech I found my answers to upgrading all of which I did myself by a simple google search. I am also running Adobe creative Cloud, I downloaded it just to prove you can run it, and if you weren't embarrased enough by the silly answers (you can only have 4GB Max Ram) I am a blonde female.

can you tell me where you found it what you can upgrade and which psu you have


thx

You can upgrade psu, graphics card, memory and hard drive, mine can take 2 at least. I bought my gear at different IT shops, just get from wherever is the cheapest, mwave is a good place to start, and if you're not entirely sure how high you can go, you can always do a live chat with dell, or talk to whoever you're going to get to install the stuff unless you do it yourself, mwave should be able to help as well. PSU-Seasonic or Cougar, Graphics-Gigabyte, Memory whichever is in budget just make sure all the sticks are the same (my pc has 4 slots) and seagate hdd if you get the firecuda it acts as both an ssd and hdd combined and will save you money in the end. As for going from 4 to 8gb all you need to know is how many slots you have, if you have 2 =, you would want to get 2 x 4gb sticks, if you have 4 you can still get 2 x 4gb but it's really better to get 4 x 2gb sticks, just need to be all the same brand and speed.

 

[Askania]

I have an XPS 420 with a core 2 quad 6600 cpu and I was hoping for some advice. Currently 2 of the 4 original 1GB ram modules are faulty and are therefore removed, it is running windows 8.1 pro but I am in the middle of upgrading to windows 10 32 bit. For some reason I upgraded from windows vista to windows 7 in 32 bit I cant remember why.

Anyway the plan is to eventually upgrade to windows 10 64 bit I have found some guides online about how to transition from 32 to 64 bit in windows 10 so hopefully that wont create too many issues. I realize I will need at least 4 GB of ram to run windows 10 64 bit but I want to upgrade to the max of 8 GB, the BIOS is A07 if i remember correctly. I just installed an old graphics card I had its an ASUS GTX 650-DC-1GD5 which seems to have installed correctly. It has 2 x DVI and 1 x HDMI and 1 x VGA.

I will only use this PC for office use with a multi monitor setup. At the moment it will be running 3 x 1080p monitors but what I want to do is get a 4K LED TV as the main monitor and run 2 additional 1080p monitors in portrait either side of it to give me the best working layout.

The questions I have are as follows:
1. can you recommend what type of ram to buy - I know I need to buy four new matching modules of 2GB each, need advise of speed and brand to buy.
2. Is the HDMI out on my graphics card HDMI 1.4 or 2.0 (is it capable of outputting 4K - I cant find any info on the manufacturer website about the max resolution of the HDMI.
3. I would like to install an SSD for the OS - Do I need any special modifications to make this work with the motherboard?
4. When the SSD is eventually purchased can anyone recommend software that will allow me to duplicate the content of my existing C drive so I done have to install everything again.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

I'm hoping by now you've had a response but just incase, you will need the max 8gb to run win10 in 64bit, the reason for you going to 32bit in win 7 was because of only having 4gb.

 

[Kay_18]

My XPS 420 now has a 650W 80+ gold PSU, Geforce GTX750 2GB GPU, Seagate Barracuda 2TB 64MB Cache HDD, Upgraded Ram to 8GB just by simply changing to a 64bit OS which is now windows 10 Pro and I play World of Warcraft without any major issues, it has just recently started to slow barely which I intend to fix by adding an SSD, but it is also likely due to my internet speed being a mere 6Mbps because Im at the end of my exchange. I'm no pc tech I found my answers to upgrading all of which I did myself by a simple google search. I am also running Adobe creative Cloud, I downloaded it just to prove you can run it, and if you weren't embarrased enough by the silly answers (you can only have 4GB Max Ram) I am a blonde female.

can you tell me where you found it what you can upgrade and which psu you have


thx

You can upgrade psu, graphics card, memory and hard drive, mine can take 2 at least. I bought my gear at different IT shops, just get from wherever is the cheapest, mwave is a good place to start, and if you're not entirely sure how high you can go, you can always do a live chat with dell, or talk to whoever you're going to get to install the stuff unless you do it yourself, mwave should be able to help as well. PSU-Seasonic or Cougar, Graphics-Gigabyte, Memory whichever is in budget just make sure all the sticks are the same (my pc has 4 slots) and seagate hdd if you get the firecuda it acts as both an ssd and hdd combined and will save you money in the end. As for going from 4 to 8gb all you need to know is how many slots you have, if you have 2 =, you would want to get 2 x 4gb sticks, if you have 4 you can still get 2 x 4gb but it's really better to get 4 x 2gb sticks, just need to be all the same brand and speed.

thx very much