Dell Inspiron 530s upgrade

[coy___]

Ok so I have been doing some research lately and I see different answers every time, I have a dell Inspiron 530s I recently upgraded PSU and case for better air flow I want it to be a small gaming PC right now it's has
CPU- E5200 2.5 GHZ
Motherboard- Stock dell 0RY007
GPU- Asus HD 5450
PSU- 480 watt
HDD- 250 GB
Ram- 4 GB 300mhz
So I want at least 6-8 gb of ram but what I've seen my motherboard only supports 4 but if I upgrade to a quad core it will go up to 8 but I have read some other things saying it doesn't support a quad core but those systems are dell insprions 530 same motherboard, so the question of this story is can a 530s with a 0RY007 motherboard support a quad core cpu?

 

[Thanesh s]

Hi i have a normal 530 with the same Dell 0RY007 mobo (G33M02) with the latest bios update the board can take the most powerful core two duo CPU's E8400, E8500, E8600,ect. I suggest you go with the most powerful E8600 giving the board you have can't take core 2 quads. The Bios update also allows 8Gb Ram DDR2 PC6400 800Mhz. Make sure you get the Bios update from the dell website. I found this conversation from the dell forums http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3514/t/19608311 i will be doing similar upgrades to my system. With a CPU like this you might want to put a more powerful GPU in the computer in the forum above has a 750ti this is a powerful card that will handle games well there are many variations. I sugest you go for that same 750ti because you already know it works.
Whats your budget??

Thanesh

 

[william p]

With the PSU you already have, and not being a BTX you can do better than the 750Ti for the same money. The 750Ti is best for PSUs without 6 pin PCIe connector. Be sure you have latest BIOS from Dell. Here is CPU list from Dell. Look in "Best Graphics card for The Money" and "GPU Hierarchy Chart"
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3514/t/19391544
Be sure to find out if your BIOS is EUFI, or "Legacy" AHCI type and be sure your Video card is compatible.