Battlefield 3

[AAJagerX]

Your PC is going to need ALOT more to run BF3 well.  The Inspiron 546 is an entry level home multimedia PC at best.  You'd need to upgrade alot.  The Video card is an issue, as the integrated card you have is pretty weak.  You'd need to upgrade the power supply before you did the vid card, which is a pain on a Dell due to their proprietary cases.  You can mount a PSU outside of the box though.  

Tac was saying that ATI sucks...  He's wrong...  Also, just popping a new graphics card in and hoping for the best is a recipe for disaster.  If you're lucky, your PC will just run like crap.  Worst case, you underpower the MB or your new card and fry one or both.

Your best bet is to start over.  You can build a reasonable gaming rig for $700 or so if you have all of your accessories (monitor, mouse, keyboard, etc.).  You'd be MUCH more satisfied with that.

If you HAVE to use that rig, I'd start with a good PSU, then GPU.  That way you won't ruin what you already have.  I have my doubts as to whether your MB can get the most out of a high performance GPU though.  Most likely, you'll still have bottlenecks on the MB that you won't be able to overcome.  

Good luck.

[1701E]

System Name: ADAM-PC
Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium (6.0, build 6002)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Inspiron 546
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: AMD Athlon (tm) 7750 Dual-Core Processor (2 CPU's) ~2.7GHz
Memory: 8190MB RAM
Page file: 2069MB used, 14365MB availible
DirectX Version: DirectX 11

Name: ATI Radeon HD 4350
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip Type: ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x954F)
DAC Type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Approx. Total Memory:  3571 MB

It looks halfway decent until ya really looks at it.  The CPU is an AM2+ Athlon I series CPU, quite a bit behind on the time, and Athlon currently isn't the gaming line for AMD. AM3/+ is the current socket.
The 8GB of RAM is likely low-speed DDR2. If it's not at least DDR2-800Mhz, it's not going to do the system justice, and DDR3 is becoming the standard fast.
The GPU isn't going to come close to playing maxed, obviously.  Nvidia currently has the best performance in a Single Chip GPU (last I checked, but it's expensive as all hell), but ATI is very close in performance..

As AA stated,
Starting over really would be the best bet of running how you want it.  I normally wouldn't suggest it if the system can be salvaged, but it's just plain out-dated.  The Motherboard can't use the newer CPUs, it can't use the newer RAM, and in turn can't use a very good GPU.  A good GPU is going to get bottlenecked fast with the current parts.

[Pigslilspaz]

how many usb ports is "a lot"... many mobos have some ports on them, and many cases have 2 or 3 on them too... i have ony my motherboard 4 or 5, then on my case 2. thats at least 6 usb ports..cant imagine your gonna need more then 2, 3 at tops... but deffinitly not 6.

So am I doing it wrong? 4 on case, 8 on Mobo including 2 USB 3.0

Lol, at least I don't have to plug everything into the front.