Wanting to Upgrade my Dell Dimension 4300.?

Question

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Computer Specs-
Video Card-
16MB ATI Rage 128 Ultra
RAM-
Memory: 256MB
Processor-
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz

There's 2 Things holding me back from Playing World of Warcraft.
1. My RAM. I pretty much know my MoBo only handles 512 mb of 133MHz SDRAM, 2x256mb sticks. Which is Fine but I can't find a place to buy a 256mb stick.
2. My Graphics Card. I have no Idea what my MoBo can handle as far as this goes. I want the best Graphics Card my MoBo can handle. And hopefully it's better then 32MB 3D Graphics card.
So, Where to buy 133MHz SDRAM and the best Graphics Card I can get with my current Spec's. Thank you!

Answer 1

Your desktop is quite upgradeable. Check out :

http://www.goldenram.com/newupro/layout.asp?systemid=10399&mfg=DELL%2DSYSTEMS&productline=DIMENSION

For ram, it shows upto 1GB and eBay is a good source.

Video cards, with an AGP slot, you have several choices.

64, 128 or even 256 would run although at the rate of your AGP slot be it 4x or 8x.

Answer 2

I upgraded my 4300 memory to 512 and I went to Best Buy for the memory stick that you will need. the graphics card I still am working on. I was told that PCI xpress is what I want but when I bought a Radeon X1050 it would not fit in my rig. so now I have to figure out what next.

Answer 3

very hard to upgade a laptop graphics... I bought my wife a laptop and there were many games that would not run on her brand new laptop. Eventually we sold the laptop and went to a desktop that had better cooling, easier to upgrade features but more bulky. Laptops don't have the feature to insert video cards like desktops do but the ran can be increased

Answer 4

get a new pc walmart has one with xp 1 gb ram and 2.1ghz with1600mhz buss 160 gb hard drive for 300 it would smoe yours or you cold spend 300 dolars to upgrade it it might get close to what the walmart one can do but it will never catch it

Answer 5

Diffently pick a new video card and more ram for dirt cheap off ebay

Answer 6

CPU- 3.0gHz unmarried center, thats the excellent your gadget will do. what interface? with that previous of a gadget i am going to wager AGP, so put in a 3870 AGP card. its the excellent thats obtainable...