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OrochiRubiX
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August 20th, 2008 01:00
XPS 600: Upgrading video card
I have a dell xps 600 with Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20 GHz, 3.19GHz, 2 GB of RAM and a 512mb Nvidia 7900GTX video card. Now I'm planning to get a new monitor which is a 24" Widescreen LCD Samsung (see link below) and someone told me that if I'm going to get a bigger monitor, I need to upgrade my video card as well or else I'll lag when I play high end games, (i.e. Crysis). So my questions are:Will video card be the only problem or will I have to replace other parts as well in order to par up with the newer parts and Is this monitor worth the cost and specs for gaming purposes?
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10086756&catid=
I'm more inclined in purchasing the monitor than the video card because I think that if I replace any dell parts inside it will void my warranty.
OrochiRubiX
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Posted August 22nd, 2008 11:00
Well that's gonna take a while for me if I'm going to buy a new one cause my warranty doesn't expire til 2010. So I guess I should wait for the warranty and get a new one or upgrade parts of it? Btw if I upgrade the pieces myself will the warranty void or should I let a technician install it for me so it wouldn't void?
jp634
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Posted August 21st, 2008 01:00
I too still have my XPS 600 I have done some up grading . First I dumped the Pentium D 930 in favor of a D 955 EE that I got on E-bay that's about as good as it gets for the XPS 600 . I also got rid of the 7900 gs sli setup and went with a 8800 gts 512 which I used to play through crysis with the med settings on a 24 in monitor . It did alright with little or no lag
With that said I am still looking into building my own rig . The Pentium D was never all that good of a gaming chip and the XPS 600 will take nothing better . From my experience I can't recommend sticking too much money into the XPS 600 your not going to get that much more out of it .The 7900gtx is not that bad of a card a cheep upgrade might be to look for a second 7900gtx to SLI on e-bay for around $100 .
To answer your question you cant keep up to today's '' par '' with an XPS 600 you could buy a new refurbished XPS 630 for the same cost as trying to upgrade the XPS 600