New Retro Gaming PC (DELL Inspiron 530S)

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Specs:

 Intel Core Duo 2 E5400 2.70 Ghz. Processor

80 G.B. Hard Drive (Replaced with a SATA PNY 120 GB SSD)

Game Storage Drive:  380 GB SATA HD (Hitachi)
2 G.B. Memory (Upgrading to 8 GB's with DDR2 800MHz PC6400) x4 2 GB DDR2 RAM Sticks
SATA DVD-RW Drive (HP Lightscribe)

HIS ATI Radeon 5450 512mb DDR2 GPU (http://www.hisdigital.com/us/product2-542.shtml)

 

Product Code	H545HS512
EAN Code	4895139003796
Cooler	Heatsink
GPU	5450
Core Clock	650 MHz
Memory Clock	800 MHz
Memory Size	512 MB
Memory Type	DDR2
Memory Interface	64 bit
Interface	PCI Express x16 (PCI Express 2.1)
Card Dimension	12.4×2.2×17.8cm cm

WiFi Card:  Startech PEX300WN2X2 300Mbps PCIe x1 WiFi Card

PSU:  Dell OEM 250 Watt PSU (TFX)

 

Future Upgrades

 

CPU:  Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 SLB9J 3.0GHz CPU Processor

RAM:  8 GB of DDR2 800MHz PC 6400 x4 2 GB sticks

GPU: R7 240 GDDR5 1GB (Low Profile GPU)

PSU:  400 Watt Upgrade for TFX0250D5W Dell Inspiron 530s 

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Is this a build you already have, or a build you're planning to do?

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4 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Is this a build you already have, or a build you're planning to do?

I got the PC yesterday and I upgraded the Hard Drive to a PNY SSD.   Still waiting for the RAM and CPU/PSU.

 

So it's between a build/planning atm.  Slowly getting the parts.

 

 

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-Moved to Build Logs-

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The Case

 

Motherboard

Ports and IO

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I just installed my old 58 in 1 Memory Card Reader from Vantec (UGT-CR905) into my DELL Inspiron 530s.  However without the OEM DELL brackets I cannot mount it with screws.  So I manage to use sticky back tape to secure it down.  I'll be working on a better way of mounting it.

 

Also I just confirmed with DELL that my Inspiron 530S is the 530sa/530sc model.  Which can support 8GB of RAM verse the 530s/sb/sd models which are limited to 4GB.