Need Help Upgrading Computer

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Well I plan on upgrading my computer too Windows 7 and when I ran the upgrade advisor it said i needed to upgrade a few things.

So I need too know what Graphics card, Power Supply and hard drive are compatible with my computer


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My Computer is a Dell Dimension E520 with an upgraded graphics card ( Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT )

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Okay, well you graphics card is fine, and Windows doesn't care what power supply you have. I would imagine your hard drive is fine also, as it should be a 320 GB, according to the Dell website. You really don't need to upgrade those components to run Windows 7. I do notice you only have 2.50 GB of RAM though. If you upgrade anything, I would do that, but really, Win 7 should run fine on that as well.
 
What did it say you have to upgrade? Cause according to those system specs you really don't need anything else. Unless you plan on doing some heavy duty gaming, you would need a new graphics card. Eventually, you might need more memory.
 
if you're going for a processor change it might be worth a mobo cpu combo upgrade but at that point you're on a total overhaul basically... how far do you want to take your upgrade?
 
cheburns said:
if you're going for a processor change it might be worth a mobo cpu combo upgrade but at that point you're on a total overhaul basically... how far do you want to take your upgrade?
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And most likely would need new ram.
 
You dont need to upgrade anything. windows 7 would run fine with the system you have now, more memory? sure if you want, you might notice a little speed up, but not nessessary at all.
 
yeah, win7 will be fine. I would still get 2GB RAM, just because you will have a better time gaming, even with the 8500GT (i had that card before, upped my RAM to 4GB, very noticable difference gaming)
 
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