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Question

Need to Know Upgrade Capabilities on a Dell Dimension 3000

Jun 17, 2013 7:02AM PDT

Hello,

I'm looking to know what the upgrade capabilities are on a Dell Dimension 3000. It's like a 5 year old computer and I just upgraded to Windows 7 but here are my questions:

-Largest Hard Drive (Hard Drive Size Not that Important, more Important is RPMs)
-How Much RAM Can I put in this (I want 6 Gigs or More)
-What Kind of Dedicated Graphics Card
-Upgrade Processor

Let me know. My I'm a web developer & my website is Current Century Media if I can't upgrade this system much I'll just continue to use it for Microsoft Office/Notepad Editors/XAMMP

I also plan on buying a Lenovo IdeaPad U410 from the Windows Store... is this a good buy or not. I want to start working with Illustrator & In-Design.

Thanks,
Ted Cacciola
Current Century Media

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Clarification Request
Which 3000?
Jun 17, 2013 7:05AM PDT

I went to look but came away with what must be 100+ models in that line up.

Also, there appear to be some prior discussions on upgrading various Dells. But without a specific model, no one can be specific.

As to RAM, use crucial.com.
Bob

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W7?
Jun 17, 2013 9:06AM PDT

Dell stopped driver support for that machine at XP.

If you installed W7 I suspect your running windows generic drivers.....not good for perf.

Crucial says 2GB max ram.
That's ok for XP.......not so good for W7.

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What full Dell model#
Jun 17, 2013 12:31PM PDT

You need to visit the Dell support website and using your service tag#, enter it and find the exact details of what your PC was build as. Then find any upgrades that Dell provides, but you needn't buy from them, buy similar from other vendors. However, IMHO, you should chuck this PC if you really want this for some business as it already too dated and any upgrades won't really make it a swift or real dependable PC, it has to work real hard to keep up and/or become stressed. Check your local Craigslist and find out what that PC is going for and then check what others are selling that maybe more upgradeable and/or simply better to begin with. In other words put you possible upgrade funds to better use on a newer PC.

tada -----Willy Happy