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Originally posted by Buff+Jun 17 2005, 01:50 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Buff @ Jun 17 2005, 01:50 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Bend it like Bourgeois@Jun 17 2005, 10:15 AM
A question for the techies:
I have 2 systems: a Dell box at the office and a Dell box at home.
The Office box is a P4 2.5 or so running XP pro with integrated sound and video.
The Home box is a p4 1.6 or so running XP home with seperate sound and video.
Other than the occasional game of NHL 2004 I pretty much use the two computers for the same stuff, and the office box is noticable faster.
I'm 'retiring' for a few months and want the best of both worlds. Can I do something with the hardware/software to make 1 better computer out of both?
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Assuming you have the expansion room in the business computer, you should be able to move the video card and sound card from the home computer over to the business computer.
If the RAM is the same type you could maybe add more ram if you have open slots or switching a stick or two(assuming it adds up to more RAM)
You could even increase your HDD space by putting in the HDD with XP Home and making it a slave drive, and the existing HDD with XP Pro the master drive. You won't have two operating systems to boot from... although you could have it set up to do so if you wished. (but if you got XP Pro why use XP Home?)
You can even add another optical drive from the home computer into the business computer (assuming there is room)
So in a nutshell, if there is room you should be able to strip your home computer of all its parts and put them in the business computer as additions and/or replacements. [/b][/quote]
So I finally got around to doing this - almost. I actually bought a new video card and DVD RW so I can one of the cool kids.
Unfortunately it seems the business computer does not have an AGP slot for the video card.
So now I just have more parts.
Can I simply swap hard-drives or will that cause a meltdown in Windows?
Would it be just as easy to buy a new system minus the hard drive, video card and dvd drive? I think I'd almost be a parts store at that point.