XPS R 450

Hello-Upgrading to an ATA100 7200rpm Hard Drive/Controller Card would help improve performance a bit. A clean install of your operating system and applications on a drive like that would also be an improvement. Also, if you use your computer to mainly access the internet and check email, you probably will not notice much of a performance boost. However, if you run graphics or video editing applications, there should be a noticeable increase in performance.

DimensionXPS R400>PIII850
384MB RAM
40G 7200RPM ATA100 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus
13.5G 7200RPM ATA66 IBM Deskstar >>on a
Maxtor ATA100 PCI Controller Card
8.4G 5400RPM ATA33 Maxtor DiamondMax
Plextor 12/10/32A CDRW - Buslink 52X CD ROM
ATI All-In-Wonder 128 16MB - PYRO 1394 PCI Card
Turtle Beach Montego A3D 64
Umax Astra 2200 Scanner - HP Deskjet 712c
Kingston EtheRx 10/100 Adapter - Alcatel SpeedTouch DSL Modem
Windows98SE
Platinum Visa Card
Work - Play
DV Info

I have a XPS R 400 and was planning on upgrading to 348 Mb RAM and to a faster processor. How much did you spend in the 128 Mb memory and in the processor? Could I go with a faster processor ? (I do have an original 60 gig Ultra ATA HD 7200 rpm).

Thanx.

Check this guy out:

http://duhvoodooman.com

He'll tell you all about upgrading your XPS R 450...Check out the PowerLeap 1.4 G CPU upgrade.

I did my XPS R 400 (with his help...thanks, Bob!) a few months ago, and it works great.