Dell XPS 630 I Upgrades ?

joe90

Hi all,

I have a Dell XPS 630I which i brought about 4 years ago. I am wondering if it is possible to upgrade any of the componets to be able to play the newer games being released, BF4 for example.

Currently spec at

Intel Core 2 quad CPU 2.40gz

Windows vista 32 bit

ATI Radeon HD 3800 series GPU.

I dont know to much about PC to be honest but enjoy gaming so would like to have an upto date rig.

Any advice would be much apperciated.

SterlingArcher

What is your budget

joe90

€400-€600

TerrorFirmer

Way better off selling that for whatever you can get for it and building a new machine. It's too old to upgrade efficiently and cost effectively, though if you just added a new video card like a R9 270 you'd get through those new games to a certain extent, but with that sort of money, you are better off just building a new machine. If the budget's 600, you could sell the XPS for maybe 150-ish I would say, with a total budget of 700 you would build a very nice machine that would play new games at maximum settings.

SterlingArcher

As stated with that budget no point throwing more money at the Dell as it will inevitably hold you back.

600 will get you a decent rig. You can have it built for you no problem. And it will make the poor Dell look like an old donkey.

joe90

Thanks TerrorFirmer, SterlingArcher. Just been reading through some of the other threads and it seems getting a new machine built may be the way to go. Saw a few builds for sale on adverts.ie built by one of the poster on here for 620€

BeerFear

Do you need a copy of windows? Will max out any game. Can add a cooler at a later date when you have more cash

Item|Price
AMD FX-6300 Prozessor, Boxed, Sockel AM3+|€99.47
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 760, 2GB DDR5|€219.44
WD Blue 1TB 6Gb's|€51.27
8GB-Kit G.Skill PC3-10667U CL9|€62.51
BitFenix Merc Alpha|€32.93
Corsair CX Series Modular CX500M, 500W|€59.34
ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0, AM3+, ATX|€59.03
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€602.98

joe90

Yes would need windows.

BeerFear

joe90 wrote: »

Yes would need windows.

Could drop the graphics card to this http://www.pixmania.ie/graphics-card/sapphire-technology-radeon-hd-7870-ghz-edition-2-gb-gddr5-pci-express-3-0-11199-16-20g/20902832-a.html

and get windows for around 80

whos_dan

You could download Windows 7 ISO from Microsoft's official distributer which comes with a 30-day trial, then you could buy Windows in a month

joe90

I would not mind paying the extra for windows 7. Would that build above be hard for a novices to build ?