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    Upgrading Alienware ?? help

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by hoop07, Sep 29, 2007.

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    hoop07 Newbie

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    I have an Alienware m9700 with 1gb of ram, an 80 gig hard drive, and a 256mb 7900gs 3d card. I want to upgrade theese three things, what and where can I get theese. Recommendations please.
     
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    Okay you can upgrade the Ram easy the HDD but the graphics card is a different problem most graphics cards cannot be upgraded, if you could you would only upgrade to the 7950GTX, nothing DX10.
     
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    Ok what ram would you recommend and I wasn't clear is that a yes or no on the hard drive? Thanks for your help!
     
    hoop07, Sep 30, 2007
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    You can upgrade the RAM and the HDD. RAM Deals.
     
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    Thanks for your help and as for hard drives what do you suggest?
     
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    Also do any of the memory sticks you linked me to have an advantage it dosnt seem to be, but theyre are so many
     
    hoop07, Sep 30, 2007
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