dell dell xps 410 work

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I recently had a neighbor toss out a Dell XPS 410 (I know there is another name for the system but I'm not sure of it off the top of my head) and I went and grabbed it because being a bit of an enthusiasts and handy man type I don't believe in throwing away good working components so I salvage any I can get my hands on. The price was right even if it is an Intel system with me personally preferring AMD products. Well with the spare stuff I have managed salvaging so far I was able to add two more ddr2 ram cards being 2GB each which added to the two preinstalled 512MB cards put it as having 5GB of ram total. It currently is running and is the system I'm using at the moment, cause the wife has pretty much stolen my other one that I bought, and has an Intel Core 2 Duo clocked just short of 2 GHZ at approximately 1.8GHZ. The worst part of the system at the moment is that it has a basic Microsoft graphics card only capable of a resolution of 1024x768 which is not enough to give full screen usage on my 1080p resolution TV that is currently acting as my computer monitor, plus it only has a single HDD with 250GB on it and when I was moving some movies out of a cloud server last night so that I didn't lose them all due to having gone over my usage limits the disk pegged out and the whole system started to lag so I've been thinking about switching the HDD for an SSD of about the same size to at least get me by with decent speeds for disk read and write. I don't really have a budget I'm working with as this was for getting some ideas from other users who may have been exposed to one or had to work on one in the past that might know how certain hardware would work with it. I was going to switch the graphics card for a random spare MSI card I got from an old convenience store security system computer but it was actually a little bit to big and I wasn't going to keep trying to jam a graphics card into the slot since it doesn't have any on board graphics solution and requires a card of some kind to be installed to work. It is the stock motherboard in the system and anything I would purchase for the system is going to be in USD. If it would help anybody just let me know and I'll add a photo of the system inside and out if requested to help get better ideas on what items I should look at. The only one I'm currently looking at is an Intel Xeon X3380 to replace the Core 2 Duo in the LGA775 socket on the motherboard. It does have four slots for ram (dual channel) which knowing that it is an old system I'm wanting to put the most ram in this system as I could get it to support with the Xeon in it. I'm not currently sure what it will support but I don't trust a lot of what I've read through random sites because I found a forum on Dell's website where someone said that it wouldn't accept more then 4GB which I thought was funny since I read it on that same system running 5GB all acknowledged within bios as well as OS. I will not however be needing an OS since I actually have found the method that Microsoft techs use to activate windows on computers that they repair which I have used numerous times over the course of years and it has never failed me once allowing me to currently be running windows 10 pro completely free (research really pays off when you spend enough time doing it lol). Thanks in advance for any and all help with ideas that I may receive from this. Being new to the site I'm hoping to see good feedback cause then ill actually have a place to talk my tech without people looking at me lost telling me they have no clue what I'm saying lol.