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Originally Posted by Hickeydog 
I'm definitely thinking those towers were BTX.
You'd be better of just building a whole new computer. Realistically, the only thing you could reuse is the case and possibly the hard drive and optical drive. You can build a nice AMD system for under $800.
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If it is BTX, then the case is a no go without modding. And Technically he could reuse the mobo if he stuck with 775, but since he wants to go i7....then you are more or less right, almost none of the parts could reused.
It would really be helpful to know what tower you have. Dell has used multiple towers for the XPS series. Dell also has a bad habit of going back and forth between BTX and ATX. Some of the XPS towers also use small (server?) power supplies.
All in all, Dell has a bad habit of making terrible decisions and without knowing exactly what you have its going to be fairly difficult to help you.