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My niece has an old Dell PC. Believe it or not she is running XP on 64MB of RAM. Slow is not the word.
I would like to put together a package that I could use to upgrade her PC and help her learn how computers are built in the process. I would like to reuse the case, power supply, HD, CDRW, monitor, keyboard, mouse. Basically I want to replace the MB, CPU and RAM. Not sure about the video card. The PC contains an AGP card (probably 1x), but I don't see a need to upgrade the video for what she is doing.
She uses it primarily for web surfing and MS office type apps for school. She is a freshman in HS.
1) Does anyone have any suggestions for motherboard, processor and RAM.
2) Will the motherboard fit in the Dell box or will I have to monkey around trying to get it to fit?
3) Will I need to replace the power supply?
Any and all suggestions appreciated.
Newbie from NY
My niece has an old Dell PC. Believe it or not she is running XP on 64MB of RAM. Slow is not the word.
I would like to put together a package that I could use to upgrade her PC and help her learn how computers are built in the process. I would like to reuse the case, power supply, HD, CDRW, monitor, keyboard, mouse. Basically I want to replace the MB, CPU and RAM. Not sure about the video card. The PC contains an AGP card (probably 1x), but I don't see a need to upgrade the video for what she is doing.
She uses it primarily for web surfing and MS office type apps for school. She is a freshman in HS.
1) Does anyone have any suggestions for motherboard, processor and RAM.
2) Will the motherboard fit in the Dell box or will I have to monkey around trying to get it to fit?
3) Will I need to replace the power supply?
Any and all suggestions appreciated.
Newbie from NY