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Making comp better

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Nye553

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I've got a Dell Dimension 8400:

Pentium® 4 Processor 530 with HT Technology (3GHz, 800 FSB)
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 400MHz (2x512M)
80GB Serial ATA Hard Drive
Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 48x CD-RW Drive
17 in E773c CRT Monitor
128MB PCI Express™ x16 ATI Radeon™ X300 SE
Sound Blaster Audigy™2 (D) Card w/Dolby 5.1, and IEEE 1394 capability
Dell 5650 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker System with Subwoofer

Is there anything I can do to make this computer faster/better in any way? Like overclocking?? or should not mess with OCing if I don't know much about it?(I know the VC sucks)
 
Yeah the video card sucks, upgrade to a 6800/x800 in pci-e when they become available.

That monitor is not great either, get a nice 19" flat screen crt like a viewsonic pf95 or something similiar unless you want to go with a lcd, but research the hell out of those since alot of them suck for gaming due to ghosting.

If you are even thinking about overclocking, then replace the stock heatsink/fan with a nice aftermarket one, like the Thermalright sp-94 with an appropriate fan on it and some arctic silver 5 thermal stuff. But you need to check your motherboard and bios to see if it will even allow overclocking. Then see about adding or upgrading fans to get good air movement through the case.

I would also get a dvd-burner to replace the cd-rw.
 
dvdrw drive
bigger hdd
faster video card

forget about overclocking, you wont be able to on a dell.
 
acascianelli said:
forget about overclocking, you wont be able to on a dell.
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That's fine, I don't even know enough about computers to even do that and I doubt I could tell the difference.
 
Nye553 said:
Do you guys think I need more RAM?
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I doubt it. 1024MB is quite a lot for 99% of the applications most people use. Even Doom3, at all but the highest resolutions, is comfy with 1GB RAM.
 
Nye553 said:
can't I back up files on a CD-RW drive?
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Yes you can but CDs have 700MBs of storage DVDs have 4.7gig for a single layer they cost more but 4.7gig on one disk is a nice thing.
 
Darakian said:
Yes you can but CDs have 700MBs of storage DVDs have 4.7gig for a single layer they cost more but 4.7gig on one disk is a nice thing.
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what's double layer?
 
double layer is 8.5gig I belive really expensive right now though.
 
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