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Upgrade for older Dell

Diodorus

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I"m considering upgrading an older Dell I have sitting around. It is a Dell Dimension 8100. I can upgrade my RAM to 2GB and I want to put Window 7 on it.
Opinions please.
Thanks,
Dio
 
Any tower case that still has a slot for the floppy drive is worth being thrown away :cool:
 
I'd probably agree with Paws in this case. I looked it up and the Dell Dimension 8100 is from year 2000! It even predates USB 2.0 specification, so its USB ports are the slower 1.1. At least it presumably has Y2K compatibility going for it. :)

Sometimes people if they're a hobbyist or tinkerer will throw Linux on an old machine like this, just to play around with. But at over 10 years old most people would say it's better to put any money you would put into its upgrades (however minor) to instead save in a fund for a new system. You can probably get a used or refurbished system of the last couple of years vintage for a great place or work out a trade of something you have. Once in a while if you disassemble a system like your 8100, people will pay on eBay for the chip separately, RAM separately, mainboard separately, old hard drive (with old interface - securely wipe it first) separately etc. - but at its age and the fact it was so common, I don't know if you could get much from that idea.

Windows 7 has a piece of software that will assess whether the planned hardware is suitable for it. Resource-wise they say it should run on any Windows Vista-suitable hardware and even slightly less performing specs than Vista. But going from your system's age of a decade, it may struggle with it if it would run at all.
 
I think you should buy or build a new computer, rather than upgrade. And with a minimum goal of 4gb RAM if you want it to last a few years.
 
Thanks for the info and opinions guys. It is pretty much what I was thinking also. I've got about 3 old cases sitting around I can build with. I'd love to have the budget to build that I spent on that Dell. I had it maxed out with video and audio, which sucked after I upgraded to XP. It shipped with Millenium (can anyone remember that OS? lol) with a free upgrade to xp which came out a few months later. I think I might spring for a RAM upgrade which is cheap enough and should boost the performance. I mostly want it to have a computer I can run Kingdoms of Camelot on. I'm addicted to it, which means I'm playing on about 6 domains. I'll do some research but I may be able to get some use out of the Turtle Beach sound card. i really liked that. It was the video which became the pain in the ass.
 
Oh yeah, and you never know when there may be a rare instance when there might be a file I just have to have on an old floppy...lol :)
 
Paws said:
Any tower case that still has a slot for the floppy drive is worth being thrown away :cool:
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I still have floppies in my computers - even a LS120 in one of them. ..| There's something about missing the A drive that bugs me =]
 
looseliam said:
I still have floppies in my computers - even a LS120 in one of them. ..| There's something about missing the A drive that bugs me =]
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:rotflmao:

I used to feel exactly the same way, and I used to do exactly the same thing!

Until I switched to Linux. Now it doesn't matter.
 
I wound up uninstalling all the programs I didn't use anymore, gigs worth, and defraged. Helped it a fair amount. I probably won't upgrade RAM unless I find a killer deal. I would like to keep my Turtle Beach sound card I really like. That should be one of my salvageable parts right? I just use it so I can have FF with a script running on a game I like, Kingdoms of Camelot. What say ye?
 
What I meant to say is I want to use my Turtle beach soundcard in some of my newer computers. Audio in my opinion has been rather stable in that there have not been major changes. It is a 5 channel system. So I'm thinking no problems using it else where. Am I correct in my thinking?
 
Which model # of Turtle Beach soundcard is it? You might check its specs online and supported OS's/drivers if you move to a newer OS (like Windows 7, etc.). Microsoft has a compatibility list here (use "Hardware" tab, "Graphic Cards & Components", then "Sound Cards").

Jones76 is right, if the interface is the same, and the drivers are address, you should be okay. A 5-channel card is still fine. I would think improvements on newer sound cards tend to be slightly lower noise ratios (though a card will always have some, as opposed to an external breakout box) or improvements in processing onboard the card, but lots of people have a favorite old sound card they take with them to a new machine.
 
You really should upgrade your RAM - it's dirt cheap. Go on ebay for this.
 
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