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Old PC to Gaming Desktop
Hey I have an old '01-'02 Dell desktop with an "RU Blueford E139765" mother bord, Seagate Barracuda ATA V hard drive, Maxtor Diamondmax 21 drive, and an Intel '02 Celeron CPU. my goal is to turn this deskptop into a gaming PC but I know that I'm going to have to get new stuff. if anyone good give me some input into what to do and what I'm going to need that'd be great I'm trying to avoid buying all new pieces and do this cheaply.
beamermt79
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August 31st, 2017 13:00
Hello! I took a look at some pictures of the board, and because the motherboard is so old and standards have changed several times since it was new, your going to have to replace the motherboard, processor, RAM, and hard drives. Once you throw in a dedicated graphics card your best bet is to buy something new. Depending on what games you wish to play, something like this would probably work.
Dan-H
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August 31st, 2017 16:00
the system is pretty old, so as BeamerMT1979 said, you'll need to replace almost everything.
Let's start at the beginning.
1) what games do you want to play?
2) what is your screen resolution?
3) what is your budget?
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September 1st, 2017 06:00
E139765 is a UL Regulatory marking not a motherboard part number. Its cheaper to buy a newer model then upgrade. The backwards UR is the UL logo.
Under $100 for a system and $119 for windows 10.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/803416719
Or a bit newer and Windows 10 is included.
The Cost of windows alone is $119 or $199 OEM
I call these Free computers because the cost of the windows on them
is the same price for the machine with windows. The Idea is that the machine and windows 10 is under $199. The reason behind the models I specify is that they will run all versions of windows from MSDOS and WIN311 to Windows 10 without issue. They also take Zotac Geforce 1050 TI 4Gig video which means they are fine for most things.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/55080270
Buying AGP or 32 bit PCI video card and Power supply and Ram and windows makes this good money after bad. The newer systems have PCI-E X16 video so they are upgradeable and the video card investment can be transferred to newer and newer system.
Lowest End Video Recommended is Radeon HD6450 which should be around $38 - $50 or so with the Zotac GTX1050 TI being $139 -$170
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16814125916