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Go to Solutionsell your old system without the HDD on eBay and you'll easily get $200 for a core i5 and 300+ for a core i7.
If it will boot to BIOS, take a picture.
Take a picture of it running windoze before you pull the HDD.
Anyway, yes the HDD will work. in your 8900, as will the optical drive but since your 8900 also has an ODD, why move it?
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Posted November 28th, 2015 16:00
RAM - probably not.
XPS 8900 uses DDR4 RAM, 2133 MHz
XPS 8500 uses DDR3 RAM, up to 1600 MHz
So even if you could mix/match DDR3 with DDR4, the RAM would all run at the speed of the slowest so your 2133 MHz RAM would be slowed down.
HDD: probably OK, but you won't be able to boot from it unless you reinstall Windows
DVD: probably OK