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[DhIrEn]

i have a dell dimension 4700 with all of the stuff in the hardrives (video cards, etc.) as it came originally, it turned out that if i wanted to install a better video card i'd need a new hardrive which was expensive, any way would Warcraft III (any of them) work on my computer. i wanted to buy my brother Warcraft (NOT World of Warcraft) for his birthday , but would it work? i got him Dungeon Lords last year and it didnt work

[marek]

You seem to have terms mixed up or so it seems, the harddrive is the data storage device not the other pieces. Only thing I think you could mean is a new motherboard to go with a new video card.

[DhIrEn]

yea i meant motherboard , the thing in the cpu that all the wires and stuff are connected to , and looks like a really big memory chip

[Nelson]

The Dimension 4700 should have an empty PCI-e x16 slot. Express is not even necessary for regular WarCraft; a good regular PCI graphics card should be able to handle the series.

Just curious: did Dell tell you that you needed to swap your motherboard?

[DhIrEn]

no, thats what my friend said

[daBKLYNdoorman]

Alright, just to clear some stuff up, the everything inside is connected to the motherboard (the "big chip"). The hard drive has nothing to do with the graphics cards. All you need to worry about is the motherboard and the graphics cards you want to swap.

Make sure your new graphics card is compatible with the motherboard you have. Usually, the only thing you need to know is whether your motherboard has the correct slot (this could be a PCI-Express x16, x4, or AGP). If it says that the graphics card requires a PCI-Express x16 slot on your motherboard, make sure you have one. If you don't know if you have it, Google it and look at the pictures of that slot and see if you have it.

Then once you get a new graphics card, take out your old one and put in the new one. Read the manual. It's a matter of pulling the old card out of the slot and putting in the new one. If the old card doesn't want to come out, then theres probably a plastic latch or lock thing stopping it. If so, pull it either up or down and slowly pull out the old card.

Good Luck. It's a 5 minute long process.