Good afternoon all!
I have an older XPS 720 that I know cannot be upgraded further. I've read a bit about the BTX motherboard. I figured I'd get a new case and start building a machine, but saving a bit of money here and there by robbing the power supply, fans, RAM, etc from the older box. I've also bought an ATI Radeon video card I figured I'd bring over.
Can anyone give me advice on the proper case and mother board to purchase with the components that I have? I ran a Belarc system analysis on the box and am going to attempt to append the results below this message. Any advice would be very welcome! Thanks.
Brad Terhune
Operating System System Model
System Service Tag: JP1R2F1
Chassis Serial Number: JP1R2F1
Enclosure Type: Tower
Processor a Main Circuit Board 3.00 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
4096 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Not hyper-threaded Board: Dell Inc. 0YU822 A00
Serial Number: ..CN137407AI01HX.
Bus Clock: 1333 megahertz
BIOS: Dell Inc. A06 04/01/2008
Drives Memory Modules c,d
635.10 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
304.31 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
MagicISO Virtual DVD-ROM0000 [Optical drive]
Maxtor_ VirtualCDROM USB Device [Optical drive]
PBDS DVD+-RW DH-16W1S SCSI CdRom Device [Optical drive]
TSSTcorp DVD-ROM TS-H353B SCSI CdRom Device [Optical drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
ST332062 0AS SCSI Disk Device (320.07 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 9QF7Q3EN, SMART Status: Healthy
ST332062 0AS SCSI Disk Device (320.07 GB) -- drive 1, s/n 9QF7Q3HB, SMART Status: Healthy 8190 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM_1' has 2048 MB (serial number 801359DB)
Slot 'DIMM_3' has 2048 MB (serial number 80136A05)
Slot 'DIMM_2' has 2048 MB (serial number 801359C6)
Slot 'DIMM_4' has 2048 MB (serial number 80135EBE)
Local Drive Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 1) * 320.07 GB 71.77 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0) 315.03 GB 232.54 GB free
Standard floppy disk controller
ATA Channel 0 [Controller]
ATA Channel 1 [Controller]
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller AMD Radeon HD 6670 [Display adapter]
DELL P2412H [Monitor] (24.0"vis, s/n XX-0KG49T-XXXXX-27S-13FU, July 2012)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
MagicISO SCSI Host Controller
NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller (3x)
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller AMD High Definition Audio Device
Creative SB X-Fi
Communications Other Devices
Conexant D850 56K V.90 DFVc Modem
↑ Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller
Kingston DT 101 G2, s/n 00D0C9CCDF47EC60100072ED, rev PMAP 5/18/2015 6:33:03 PM*
Kingston DT 101 G2, s/n 0013729940C4EB817516007F, rev PMAP 5/18/2015 6:31:21 PM*
* Possibly used again before the reboot following this time.
None discovered
I have an older XPS 720 that I know cannot be upgraded further. I've read a bit about the BTX motherboard. I figured I'd get a new case and start building a machine, but saving a bit of money here and there by robbing the power supply, fans, RAM, etc from the older box. I've also bought an ATI Radeon video card I figured I'd bring over.
Can anyone give me advice on the proper case and mother board to purchase with the components that I have? I ran a Belarc system analysis on the box and am going to attempt to append the results below this message. Any advice would be very welcome! Thanks.
Brad Terhune
Operating System System Model
System Service Tag: JP1R2F1
Chassis Serial Number: JP1R2F1
Enclosure Type: Tower
Processor a Main Circuit Board 3.00 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
4096 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Not hyper-threaded Board: Dell Inc. 0YU822 A00
Serial Number: ..CN137407AI01HX.
Bus Clock: 1333 megahertz
BIOS: Dell Inc. A06 04/01/2008
Drives Memory Modules c,d
635.10 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
304.31 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
MagicISO Virtual DVD-ROM0000 [Optical drive]
Maxtor_ VirtualCDROM USB Device [Optical drive]
PBDS DVD+-RW DH-16W1S SCSI CdRom Device [Optical drive]
TSSTcorp DVD-ROM TS-H353B SCSI CdRom Device [Optical drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
ST332062 0AS SCSI Disk Device (320.07 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 9QF7Q3EN, SMART Status: Healthy
ST332062 0AS SCSI Disk Device (320.07 GB) -- drive 1, s/n 9QF7Q3HB, SMART Status: Healthy 8190 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM_1' has 2048 MB (serial number 801359DB)
Slot 'DIMM_3' has 2048 MB (serial number 80136A05)
Slot 'DIMM_2' has 2048 MB (serial number 801359C6)
Slot 'DIMM_4' has 2048 MB (serial number 80135EBE)
Local Drive Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 1) * 320.07 GB 71.77 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0) 315.03 GB 232.54 GB free
Standard floppy disk controller
ATA Channel 0 [Controller]
ATA Channel 1 [Controller]
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller AMD Radeon HD 6670 [Display adapter]
DELL P2412H [Monitor] (24.0"vis, s/n XX-0KG49T-XXXXX-27S-13FU, July 2012)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
MagicISO SCSI Host Controller
NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller (3x)
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller AMD High Definition Audio Device
Creative SB X-Fi
Communications Other Devices
Conexant D850 56K V.90 DFVc Modem
↑ Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller
Kingston DT 101 G2, s/n 00D0C9CCDF47EC60100072ED, rev PMAP 5/18/2015 6:33:03 PM*
Kingston DT 101 G2, s/n 0013729940C4EB817516007F, rev PMAP 5/18/2015 6:31:21 PM*
* Possibly used again before the reboot following this time.
None discovered