Dell dimension 5150

[RhinoTV]

Hello,

Got an old pc from a friend & wanted to see what I could do with it. Its a dell dimension 5150 & was wondering could anyone send me a link to a pc part picker page with all the correct specs? Just wanted to try practice building pc's and was gonna just upgrade this slowly but wanted to know whats compatible & whats not.

Thanks

 

[rgd1101]

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/dimension-5150x/manuals
Practice reading the Service manual

 

[stdragon]

According to Dell spec sheet, the Dimension 5150 uses an Intel 945G Express chipset. The CPU could be a Pentium 4 5XXX and 6XXX series (Hyper Threaded) with a maximum RAM support of 4GB in 400Mhz and 533Mhz DDR2.

If you want to know when this PC was shipped, plug in the SvcTag (6 to 7 alpha numeric digits found on tag on top, side, or back of case) at support.dell.com and look up at the warranty. Obviously it's expired, but will give you an idea. Also, assuming no hardware was changed or upgraded, there might be a list of the shipped configuration and all hardware included.

 

[william p]

There's not a lot you can do with that.
http://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Dell-Dimension-5100/7563

 

[HalSch]

Hello,

Got an old pc from a friend & wanted to see what I could do with it. Its a dell dimension 5150 & was wondering could anyone send me a link to a pc part picker page with all the correct specs? Just wanted to try practice building pc's and was gonna just upgrade this slowly but wanted to know whats compatible & whats not.

Thanks

I use an old 5150 as a "live backup".
I cloned my main Win10 desktop computer to a 5150. The 5150 is a (slower) cloned copy of my main computer. Same user accounts, same synced cloud storage, same synced email, same synced web browsers.


Suggested upgrade to a 5150 include D945 chip and 4 gigs of memory, it will run Windows-10 64 and 64 bit versions of Firefox, Chrome and MS Office. Also suggest a 2GB usb for ReadyBoost, OR a SSD drive.

Post from 2016

Following up - upgrading to a D945 chip was an easy swap, took about 5-10 minutes. Unplug, pull the case release, remove the side panel, loosen 2 screws, tilt & remove heat sink housing. Unclip processor cage, remove old processor. Clean the old past off the heatsink, spread new past on heatsink. Set D945 processor in place, re-install heat sink, tighten 2 screws, close case, plug back in.

With the D945 installed Windows 10 64-bit installed fine, while the old P4 chip did run the commands for 64 bit windows, but didn't report it. I did notice that the 5150 didn't like installing Windows 10 from a bootable USB,
so burned the Win10-64bit ISO and installed from DVD drive.

So, if you have an old Dimension 5150 around, you can upgrade it to a modern computer for about $50 bucks. Windows 10 64 bit, 3.25GB memory, P945 Processor add a USB drive with ReadyBoost for a few extra gigs of memory

$6 for Pentium D945
$15 for 4gb memory
$29 for Windows 7 upgrade
Free for upgrade from Win7 to Win10

 

[william p]

If you can get a Dimension 9200 motherboard for it then you can get a QX6800 running in it with 8GB RAM. Overclocking is possible also. But the 9150 is stuck with Pentium 4 CPUs which at their fastest just equal the slowest LGA775 Core 2Duo.