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9800gt???

PSU is a TLA for the Power Supply unit.

More powerful graphics cards draw more power, so require more robust PSUs to work. If the dell system is made to work with a 5450, then the PSU may not support a 5770 (this is quite likely as a PSU that only just powers a 5450 will be cheaper for dell).

Hence, you may need to upgrade the PSU as well as the GPU to make modern games work.
 
A good quality PSU that will handle a Q8300/5770 system will set you back around £40. This would be my suggestion.

You also need to make sure the Dell's case is large enough to accomodate a 5770. The 5770 is a much larger card than the 5450 and is full-height - compared to the 5450 which is half-height.

No, you won't be able to overclock at all. The motherboard on Dells is locked to prevent overclocking.


Edit: I just had a look on the Dell support website. The PSU is a 300W, so it will need to be replaced.

Please don't buy this machine, you will need to add £170 worth of components just to make it do what you want it to do.
 
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TBH, I wouldn't trust anything much more powerful that a 5450 with that PSU. You may be able to stretch to something like a 5670 but it would be risky and not a massive bonus.

Is Dell really the only option you have? Surely if you can get credit with dell you can get it some other way. As at the minute you are going to get a pretty poor value system with next-to no upgrade potential.
 
no there's nowhere else I tried eBay and nearly got scammed out of 300, was looking at the primo dual core on here but then I'd need an operating system and a mouse and keyboard and graphics. it'd all add up. think il upgrade my psu and get an9800 to cover costs of psu... then il upgrade my ram to 6 and I'm sure thatl be fine till next year wen I get a new pc entirley!
 
Howabout this OCUk system? It costs £506 inluding Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit option.


As for upgrading the dell to 6GB, that means you have to buy a 4GB kit, as in the current configuration all the RAM slots are used up.
 
Fair enuf, what is your budget then?

4GB is fine for gaming at the moment. I was just highlighting how the upgrade that you mentioned in post#28 would have to be achieved.
 
TierBlundell said:
No can't afford that right out I'm desperate for a pc so I can start gaming, il just upgrade the psu and graphics will games run slowly with only 4gb ram?
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Na. I got 4GB of 800Mhz RAM...I'm using Win7-64-bit (which uses more ram than 32-bit) with around 15 Firefox tabs in the background plus gaming, I still don't use more than 3GB of them. Also bare in mind that 32-bit Windows can only detect max of 4GB memory- with the graphic memory included.
 
Your system is not great but dont be downbeat, its all about your gaming experience, we all dont need bells and whistles to have fun.

It is a shame you dont have the funds because £500 would build a decent machine.
 
Am I being stupid or would this be a far far better bet than that inflexible Dell?

Build it yourself, ask a friend or relative, offer £20 or beer - I'm sure someone somewhere could help??

I dont care how you finance it, just please don't buy a Dell that you're going to hate from day 1. :(

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matt_fsr said:
Am I being stupid or would this be a far far better bet than that inflexible Dell?

Build it yourself, ask a friend or relative, offer £20 or beer - I'm sure someone somewhere could help??

I dont care how you finance it, just please don't buy a Dell that you're going to hate from day 1. :(

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Well the processor with the dell is a better quad core.Although for solely gaming the dual core at a higher clock would have the edge.But pentium duals cores are poor by todays standards.

Also it has no monitor and 250GB hard drive is fairly small.

So either way for a complete PC to play games on £500 just isn't enough i'm afraid.
 
TierBlundell said:
Ok good stuff after work tommorow I am going to cancel my dell order (hopefully) and get the titan krypt!!! btw which is better 5770 or 5750???
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No hopefullies about it! Just tell them you're cancelling and that's the end of it.

It's in their best interests to let you cancel because it'll cost them more money if they deliver it, and you cancel it via the sales of goods act, because it'll have been all assembled, had a windows license used on it, delivery cost paid for and then they'd incur costs taking it back and finding something they could use it for.
 
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Sorry, I didnt think the Dell included a monitor either? Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

An E6500 @ 3.6Ghz isnt that bad considering what you want it for. I can run Crysis fine on an E7200 @ 3.3Ghz.

If you wanted to just get a E6500 @ stock, + board + RAM that would total £213, giving you £37 more to put toward making the HDD closer to 1Tb.

Have you got a reason for needing 1Tb right now? My media PC has 1Tb of storage in total, and has 300Gb free and currently stores my whole DVD collection on it, + mixed other things. You can always add a 2nd HDD in when you have more cash if you build it yourself.
 
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