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Howdy all. 
Right, i think that it is time for an upgrade, but, being to impatient, i decided to buy an XPS 420 in october last year instead of building one. It was on a special so not too bad.
But, as everyone knows, the upgradability of Dells is pretty poor so it looks like a will be selling the XPS and building my own.
Just wanted to know what you think of the current spec:
its a Dell Motherboard (all branding is removed and replaced with Dell 0PT406)
Q6600 @ 2.4GHz
4GB Kingston HyperX PC6400 (2x2GB)
Nvidia GeForce 9800GT 1GB
LG Super Multi-Blue Blu-ray and HD-DVD ROM Drive
Bog standard DVD +- RW drive
Prosound 7.1 sound card
Dell 375watt PSU
Enermax Cluster 120mm fan
Enermax Everest 80mm fan
Built in Multimedia Card reader
Edit: 500GB Seagate Barracuda HDD (Keeping obviously)
Dont think i have missed anything.
Or should i take out the 9800gt, blu ray drive, RAM, fans and HDD. and put in standard parts in their place and sell it as a bog standard XPS and put the 9800gt bluray drive etc in my new build.
Im stuck at a crossroad... what to do?
Thanks in advance
Jack
p.s. Would have the money made from selling the above + £300 - £400 to spend.
EDIT: Got rid of the price check part. Sorry, you're right, i cant see that bit of the forum
Right, i think that it is time for an upgrade, but, being to impatient, i decided to buy an XPS 420 in october last year instead of building one. It was on a special so not too bad.
But, as everyone knows, the upgradability of Dells is pretty poor so it looks like a will be selling the XPS and building my own.
Just wanted to know what you think of the current spec:
its a Dell Motherboard (all branding is removed and replaced with Dell 0PT406)
Q6600 @ 2.4GHz
4GB Kingston HyperX PC6400 (2x2GB)
Nvidia GeForce 9800GT 1GB
LG Super Multi-Blue Blu-ray and HD-DVD ROM Drive
Bog standard DVD +- RW drive
Prosound 7.1 sound card
Dell 375watt PSU
Enermax Cluster 120mm fan
Enermax Everest 80mm fan
Built in Multimedia Card reader
Edit: 500GB Seagate Barracuda HDD (Keeping obviously)
Dont think i have missed anything.
Or should i take out the 9800gt, blu ray drive, RAM, fans and HDD. and put in standard parts in their place and sell it as a bog standard XPS and put the 9800gt bluray drive etc in my new build.
Im stuck at a crossroad... what to do?
Thanks in advance
Jack
p.s. Would have the money made from selling the above + £300 - £400 to spend.
EDIT: Got rid of the price check part. Sorry, you're right, i cant see that bit of the forum
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why dont you just change out the board and oc you cpu? on my Q6600 GO with some reasonable cooling I could get it stable @ almost 4Ghz and I would leave it running @ 3.8Ghz 24/7 this was with a DFI p35 motherboard but im not sure of the exact model name... sold it off late last year... you should see a great perf increase.. also dont forget to upgrade ur PSU also.. 375W is a bit weak eh ...
