Upgrading help on 5 year old dell

vaio7777

vaio7777

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I have a 5 year old Dell Dimension 8250, and I want to upgrade the processor to core two duo (I know i need to get a new mother board), get new graphics card and sound card and would like to replace the DVD drive with a Blueray drive.

specs:

2.0 ghz pentium four "Northwood" processor
256 mb RAM
120 Gb HDD (75 Gb remaining)
Windows XP home edition SP2,planning on upgrading to Vista ultimate after i get the basics done (RAM, Processor, Video and sound cards)


My question is how do i install a new motherboard? I have never done it before and i don't want to screw up the computer because my mom will kill me. Some help please, would appreciate help from some one who knows there way around older dell's.
 
It would be pretty hard , it would be easy to bu a new case/PS, dells cases are notoriously bad. You are only salvaging your HD OS and DVD drive(blu ray = pricey!) But potentially just unscreww the mobo and swap, make sure that they have combatible power supply cables.
 
Unless you can find a BTX form factor board that supports Dell PSU's and Core 2 Duo's then I'm afraid you're out of luck, BTX has a different screw configuration so the motherboard won't be secure. Like CPTMuller said you're better off just building a completely new PC.
 
I doubt it, Dell's, especially older ones, use funky proprietary parts. That motherboard probably won't fit in the case. Also, don't get parts of Best Buy, they're usually all ripoffs.

Also, question, "motherboard speed"? (from the website)
 
That dell is NOT BTX, but it does use a very proprietary "tray" setup so you couldn't upgrade the motherboard. The power supply should be normal. though.

I found a site mentioning something about RDRAM... I that's the case, I wouldn't even bother trying to upgrade this machine. In the end you'd be better to just scrap it and build a whole new system.
 
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