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XPS 720 H2C upgrade advice sought

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  • 11-04-2012 1:30pm
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    col.in.Cr
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    Any advice on what to upgrade here on on this spec to be able to play the latest games if possible?

    Intel® Core™2 Extreme QX6850 Factory Overclocked to 3.67GHz
    Dual 768MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
    1000 Watt Power Supply
    7-slot BTX motherboard
    4GB Dual-Channel DDR2 SDRAM


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    Tea_Bag
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    its very difficult to upgrade those PCs because of their odd standards.

    either way, you can upgrade the GPUs and it'll see you through another while. be sure to get a card with a reference design that exhausts air out the back of the case and not dumps it inside. what's your budget?


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    ShadowHearth
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    something like 6950 wont be bottle necked in this. i would not bother going anything higher though as cpu will make it useless. 7850 would work too ( maybeish )


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    Tea_Bag
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    a 6950 could be got cheaply second hand, but I cant stress enough at this that you need a reference design card, and good luck finding a reference 6950 :(


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    ShadowHearth
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    Why reference?!


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    Tea_Bag
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    the CPU cooler gets fecked if you dump hot air into the case.


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    Burgo
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    How much can you spend on an upgrade?


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    col.in.Cr
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    Burgo wrote: »
    How much can you spend on an upgrade?

    I had not thought about budget because I did not know what I could upgrade here but I don't mind spending a bit to extend the life of this machine if its worth it,thanks for the advice so far


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    ShadowHearth
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    col.in.Cr wrote: »
    I had not thought about budget because I did not know what I could upgrade here but I don't mind spending a bit to extend the life of this machine if its worth it,thanks for the advice so far

    I dunno about 720, but I have 6870 non reference design in xps 420 and all works great. CPU newer had any problems. If it is really so bad, he can just leave a door open.i did that in begginig just to see how hot gpu gets.

    Op, I am not recommending spending a lot of money in to dell upgrading. been there, done that. Depending on your budget you better off getting a new self built system. Dells are just nom upgradable pass gpu upgrade.


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