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Quoted from Sideshow

I’m buying a new pc, so goodbye 30fps but hello bewildering choices of computers.

I have managed to identify a pc that I’d like, but I have some questions. It comes with 4gb of dual channel ram, but I want 8gb dual channel, do I just stick in another 4gb from my old pc?

It’s a Dell Vostro 460 – CPU is Intel i5 2500. It runs 32bit windows at the moment, will it run 64bit windows?

It will, but by “duel chanel ram” you mean ddr2? Also look at mhz because if its much slower than your mb then its not advisible to put them.

And why would you need 8gb of rams? You’re doing some serious visual stuff or what.

edit: i googled it and I can’t see graphics card, you want to look out that it would not be with motherboard ( i think all dell laptops have their gpu in mb’s)

And like always you can build much more powerful pc by yourself

Don’t get a prebuilt dell – it’s a huge waste of money compared to buying all the parts and building it separately (we’re talking being overcharged by £200+). If you can give us your budget, we can find the best parts for your price range and give you the links so you can order it.

also, lol @ dell:

“Your Vostro’s 350W power supply easily supports high-end graphic card and system updates.”

Quoted from Sketch

being told by some guy on a forum isn’t the best way to go about building your own custom rig. have a look at toms hardware for some pc building guides if you are really interested in that, it should save you some cash but will take some effort and a small amount of understanding.

This 1000x over. I’ve been building PC’s for years, so I’ll happily put together a basic build for you, buterm this guy knows nothing about building a pc. so my advice is either research the shit out of how to build a pc yourself. or buy a pc form mesh or scan. But if you can look at other sites and roughly work out cheaper/equivelant parts that make sense to buy, you can save a lot of money.

Well the deal is, I get my mum a new PC and I get her old one, which is fine for me. I was just asking questions on her behalf. She really doesn’t want to build a pc, and is fine with the price, just wants to make sure that she can run photo editing software with 3gb files, so yeah the RAM needs to be quite high, just so she isn’t limited. She had 6gb in her old one.

So it’ll be able to run 64bit windows and I can just stick in some more RAM as I like?

Quoted from Sideshow

Well the deal is, I get my mum a new PC and I get her old one, which is fine for me. I was just asking questions on her behalf. She really doesn’t want to build a pc, and is fine with the price, just wants to make sure that she can run photo editing software with 3gb files, so yeah the RAM needs to be quite high, just so she isn’t limited. She had 6gb in her old one.

So it’ll be able to run 64bit windows and I can just stick in some more RAM as I like?

if you’ll run out of ram you won’t be limited, just it will be much slower.

question from my side: wich laptop to take?
DELL Inspiron 15R
i5-480M 2.67Ghz,
15.6″(1366×768),
RADEON HD 5650-1GB,
6GB ram
640GB HDD
WIN7 HP (free windows yeah)
DELL Inspiron 17R n1
i5-2410M 2.3Ghz, 17.3″(1600×900)
GF GT 525M-2GB,
4GB ram
640GB HDD
DOS
DELL Inspiron 17R n2
i3-380M 2.53Ghz,
17.3″(1600×900),
RADEON HD 5470-1GB,
4GB ram
500GB HDD
WIN7 HP (free windows again?)
sorry sideshow for using your thread , hope you will understand <3

Quoted from dauk

don’t get dell if you want to play games on it as I mentioned they have intergrated gpu that overheats super fast.

can you reccomend some laptops then who don’t have this super fast overheatin problem? :)