Hi all,
I own a fairly new dell
XPS 600, it has a pentium 840ee processor (currently running at 3.6ghz), 2g ram (2x1gb @667mhz), 1terrabyte hard drive space (2x 500gb in raid 0), 2x 7800gt gpu's in sli, and a x-fi extreme music pci card.
What I would like to do with the system is take all the components except the cpu and put them in a falcon northwest fragbox case. I would then like to swap the cpu with a core 2 6800 extreme and ofc replace the motherboard with a suitable core2duo model.
I am wondering, is this possible, what hurdles do i face and what sort of motherboard am I restricted to, this will be the first PC I have put together and I do expect to replace parts down the line however the xps parts are still under warranty so I have to keep them and assuming a part breaks it will all be going back in the (horrible) xps case for the engineer to look at for a free repair or replacement
With this in mind I doubt I will make any significant upgrades until the warranty expires, at least then we'll be well into DX10 territory 
Any advice you can give me would be great, I have my heart set on this particular case so if you could bear that in mind when replying I would appreciate it, I dont know why i want the case.. i guess its just because it was the first pc I saw that really blew me away cosmetically and now I have the chance to own the pc that got me looking at SFF.
Thanks all
I own a fairly new dell
XPS 600, it has a pentium 840ee processor (currently running at 3.6ghz), 2g ram (2x1gb @667mhz), 1terrabyte hard drive space (2x 500gb in raid 0), 2x 7800gt gpu's in sli, and a x-fi extreme music pci card.What I would like to do with the system is take all the components except the cpu and put them in a falcon northwest fragbox case. I would then like to swap the cpu with a core 2 6800 extreme and ofc replace the motherboard with a suitable core2duo model.
I am wondering, is this possible, what hurdles do i face and what sort of motherboard am I restricted to, this will be the first PC I have put together and I do expect to replace parts down the line however the xps parts are still under warranty so I have to keep them and assuming a part breaks it will all be going back in the (horrible) xps case for the engineer to look at for a free repair or replacement
With this in mind I doubt I will make any significant upgrades until the warranty expires, at least then we'll be well into DX10 territory Any advice you can give me would be great, I have my heart set on this particular case so if you could bear that in mind when replying I would appreciate it, I dont know why i want the case.. i guess its just because it was the first pc I saw that really blew me away cosmetically and now I have the chance to own the pc that got me looking at SFF.
Thanks all
