I'm also using a venerable XPS 420 (Q6600, 120MB SSD, 4GB DDR2 667MHz Ram, ASUS GTX550Ti, + various HDD's) and upgrade the OS from Vista Home Premium 32Bit to Windows 8.1 Pro 64 Bit. But if you want to go beyond 8GBs, then follow the previous posters advice. However, one thing to note that I'm surprised the other two posters did not mention.in order to get the 420 to take 8GB of RAM instead of the 4GB that Dell quoted? Just upgrade the BIOS and the rig will take 8GBs of RAM. It is more than capable (with the right upgrading) to handle Premier Elements 12 or the Adobe Premiere Creative Cloud. However, my 420 still rocks with it comes to HD video, 3D rendering, and other labor intensive jobs. Their advice is not wrong in that sense because core 2 Quad core processors are equivalent to like i5's, only i5's are newer, faster, and have Turbo Boost. Now, you can do what the previous posters suggested and buy a new machine. I also have 8GB of RAM installed, a 160GB SSD system drive, 2 1TB backup drives, and an NVIDIA Quadpro 1GB video card that I run the following on.Windows 8.1 64bit, Adobe Production Suite CS5.5, Poser Pro 2014, Carrara 8.5, Daz Studio 4.6, and HitFilm Ultimate.along with Office 2013. I have a Dell XPS 420 with a Core 2 Quad 6600 CPU. Hmmm, I wish I had of seen this post before and I would've chimed in with my experience.
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