Alright guys I need some advice on what to do with my computer. Long story short I added a cheap graphics card to be able to play a couple games a little better and I wasn't really impressed. So I decided to go bigger which of course required a power supply. well of course the mother board that dell used in my inspiron is not compatible with aftermarket ATX power supplies even though it is an ATX board. So should I just upgrade my mother board and processor and use it in the dell case or should I go ahead and get a barebones kit say from new egg or tiger direct? Can I use my hard drive that's in my dell currently with a new mother board? I believe it's currently SATA II. I am currently running Windows 7 and I would like for it to stay that way and I don't want to lose anything I have on it. My other option is to clone the drive to a new larger drive. But with my motherboard in the dell being SATA II idk if it will recognize a new drive to clone it.
Any advice please share as this is the first time I am thinking of doing a build of any kind on a computer
Here is the barebones kit I am looking at:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...755&CatId=7718
Current motherboard specs:
http://www.findlaptopdriver.com/specs-f896n-dell/
Here are my current system specs:
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name MIKE-PC
System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model Inspiron 546
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD Phenom(tm) 9750 Quad-Core Processor, 2400 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. A11, 1/19/2010
SMBIOS Version 2.5
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
User Name Mike-PC\Mike
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 8.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 5.81 GB
Total Virtual Memory 16.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 12.8 GB
Page File Space 8.00 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys