Dim. 2400 internals

Everything in the system is standard except the physical connections of the motherboard. You can't use the same case for a non-Dell board.

If you will be replacing the motherboard, you will have a lot of rewiring. Another thing, many posts tells that if you have to change the motherboard, you have to change the processor and the RAM too.

Its better that you buy a new system with PCI-E, if you want better gaming.







DIM 2400
P4 2.8Ghz
1024 DDR RAM
3D Fuzion Geforce FX 5500 256MB, PCI
80G HDD
Audigy 2ZS w/ 5.1 Speaker

Extra:
(Alienware Area 51 Gaming PC)

Well it wont be for gaming, i already have a 9100 for that, this is mainly for my wife and her gaming is about once a month. lol, what about sticking a new mother board into a new case and getting a PSU and use the existing componets from the dim 2400? would that be easier?

if you want to replace all that in the 2400, your better off building a new machine. , ravi

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Drive connectors are standard, and plug-in cards are standard.  But the motherboard mounts, power connector, front panel connector, will only work as it came from the factory.  Dells don't lend themselves to being substantially upgraded.  Leave it mechanically as it is.  Uninstall unused software, particularly stuff that loads itself into the system tray on startup.  That will make it as fast as it's going to get, should be adequate for once-a-month gaming.  If not, replace the whole shebang.

I want to get a better video card, and buying a whole new system is to me pointless seeing how I already have a lot of the components I need already I can get a barebone kit for under 200.00, a lot cheaper then building a whole new comp. Right now what I have in the 2400 that I would transfer over would be, P4 Processor, the hard drive, the two CD drives one is CD-R, and maybe the 3.5" floppy drive. That's about it. I just need to know if I transfer these components if they will al plug into a new mother board, and if not can I change the end connectors so that they can?

Thanks

Message Edited by paintman161 on 08-26-200610:50 AM

yes. but you would have to get a new motherboard that supports all the parts, and you may have to reinstall xp. , ravi

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Plus any board that would support those would be very old, and only support AGP at best.

Plus you'd need a new copy of XP, etc.

Message Edited by tigerwolf7 on 08-27-200601:29 PM