Identifying Parts

[Limehouse]

As a follow up to my thread entitled 'Salvaging parts', could someone please identify some parts of my pc for me as I am a complete noob when it comes to that. All i really know is where is where my graphics card is so any help is useful to me.

Many thanks in advance,
Limehouse.

 

[j00ni]

If you are salvaging the CPU, I assume it is underneath that behemoth of a heatsink

 

[Limehouse]

heatsink being that large metallic thing in the middle?
Edit: and no, i think i was recommended to buy a new CPU.

 

[j00ni]

heatsink being that large metallic thing in the middle?

yep

 

[BillytheImpaler]

What's wrong with the machine? That's one of those newfangled BTX motheboards. We just are upgrading to that style Dell here at work.

 

[Limehouse]

for reference, this is what lee87 spec'd me:
CA-052-AN Antec NSK4400 Mini Tower Case - 380W SmartPower PSU (CA-052-AN) 1
£43.95 £43.95
MB-071-MS MSI K9N Neo-F nForce 550 (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-071-MS) 1
£46.95 £46.95
GX-025-BG BFG 3DFuzion GeForce 7600 GT 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-025-BG) 1
£97.95 £97.95
CP-165-AM AMD Athlon 64 3800+ 2.4GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail (CP-165-AM) 1
£68.95 £68.95
Subtotal £257.80
VAT £45.12
Total £302.92

 

[johnno]

limehouse wats your budget??

 

[BillytheImpaler]

That still doesn't answer what's wrong with it. Is the motherboard shot?

 

[Limehouse]

nothing is wrong with it, i just need to know what is what, very new to the wholething and im planning to use some parts from it, namingly the ram and the cd drive. and its around 300, i would be willing to push to 400 IF i really had to.

 

[Limehouse]

ok, now how do i know what type my hard drive is, i've got everest but it doesn't seem to tell me, any help appreciated.
thanks.

 

[bitslice]

nothing is wrong with it....

did I miss something ? ...you want to remove £30 worth of components from a working Dell just to build a new rig ?

ummm, then what do you do with the dead Dell ???

just sell the Dell while it's still working....


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[j00ni]

ok, now how do i know what type my hard drive is, i've got everest but it doesn't seem to tell me, any help appreciated.
thanks.

It's SATA judging by the pic (the blue cable looks like a SATA cable anyway)

 

[ben_j_davis]

So are you salvaging parts from this computer or do you want a description of whats inside your computer?

 

[bitslice]

ok, now how do i know what type my hard drive is

remove hard drive, type it's model number into google.

for more info, locate website of manufacter of hard drive, locate it's manual under "support"

(....please look at post #11)
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