The story... I have a Dell XPS 5 from mid 2005, the upgrade last year to a Nv 8800GT 512MB was too much for the power supply, despite its advertised power. i had to pull 2 hardrives, 2 sticks of ram and a pci card to stop it crashing.
I have now re-raided the 74Gb Raptors (disconecting the old system drive) and installed Windows 7 RC 64 bit trial OS and its happy as the grafix card is not really doing much just surfin the internet.
The plan now is to update (Dell obviously suck im my experience at systems) and i am thinking of :
4 GHZ UD5 overclocked bundle,
1200 Antec
Corsair HX850
I will re use the old optical drives, keyboard etc and the 2 x Raptor 74GB in raid 0 as the system drive and stay with the 8800.
Now let me explain, I know the parts are a bit overkill but I plan on going upto a full HD display and a suitable card when funds are there and will then use the 8800GT as a physix card under a new main card and then swap the OS drive for a SSD and a 1TB WD black.
So after all that on my first post, comments please, am i missing the plot?
I have now re-raided the 74Gb Raptors (disconecting the old system drive) and installed Windows 7 RC 64 bit trial OS and its happy as the grafix card is not really doing much just surfin the internet.
The plan now is to update (Dell obviously suck im my experience at systems) and i am thinking of :
4 GHZ UD5 overclocked bundle,
1200 Antec
Corsair HX850
I will re use the old optical drives, keyboard etc and the 2 x Raptor 74GB in raid 0 as the system drive and stay with the 8800.
Now let me explain, I know the parts are a bit overkill but I plan on going upto a full HD display and a suitable card when funds are there and will then use the 8800GT as a physix card under a new main card and then swap the OS drive for a SSD and a 1TB WD black.
So after all that on my first post, comments please, am i missing the plot?
