Does anyone know...
 

if putting in a video card would break a standard dell warranty?

it didn't break mine. though i did buy my card from them it wasn't brought up in the conversation so i don't think it affected it.

Probably, since you have to open up the comp case. But you can always ask their customer service, lol.

opening it up doesn't affect it unless maybe it's a laptop. even when getting replacement parts they give you the option of having a technician come out and do it or letting you do it yourself and just sending the part that was replaced back in the box they give you.

that is one good thing i have to say about dell. their customer service was pretty damn good. i dropped my laptop and bent the pins in the network card slot and someone came out the next day and replaced the motherboard for me.

but also like i said they let me change stuff myself and it didnt' affect anything. though if there's a problem with something and it involves teh video card they won't help you with that. that was the one thing that pissed me off though. i bought the video card from them and was having a problem but they wouldn't help me. somehow my rage fixed it though o_o.

Opening it should not void your warranty. Irregardless, having a technician do it is always a better option. I do consider myself in the top 1% of computer users, and I sometimes have technicians come by to do the work, even though I probably know more about computers than some of them. I'm not going to be humble; that's the truth. Why do I do this?

Because if something screws up, I can point fingers. Throw in a technical argument instead of a vague "he put that card thing in that slot," and you pretty much win every battle against customer support.

Alright. How much do technicians usually run you for?