DELL-icious ?
27 June 2002, 01:06 PM
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DELL PC's. are they any good ? Need to buy a home PC, and a mate works for them.
How do they compare against machines from smaller manufacturers such as Evesham, Mesh ?
I know you won't get the same level of equipement with them, I just want to make sure they've got decent motherboards, are reliable and are safe to upgrade etc...
Cheers,
Daz
How do they compare against machines from smaller manufacturers such as Evesham, Mesh ?
I know you won't get the same level of equipement with them, I just want to make sure they've got decent motherboards, are reliable and are safe to upgrade etc...
Cheers,
Daz
27 June 2002, 01:33 PM
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well the motherboard and psu are proprietary, reliability is good but upgrades are sometimes hard, they don't do AMD support can sometimes be a little so so. but not bad for a home pc id prefer mesh really you get more choice
27 June 2002, 01:37 PM
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we use them here at work... would i buy them for work??YES , would i buy one for home??NAH, as above, buy something where you can choose the components you want, in a case you want..
27 June 2002, 01:41 PM
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I self-build nowadays, but have an old dell PC which is now about five years old. Had no problems with it at all. All the PCs in the office where I work are Dell PCs too. If you want a good, reliable work horse which may not be quite the cheapest or quite the fastest PC on the market, then go for one.
Edited to say that a few years ago Dell PCs had proprietry motherboard/PSU power connectors. Standard ones would fit, but the polarity of the cables were different, so a fried MB would result. Don't know if this is still the case, but I do believe Dell still specify their own MBs.
Gary.
[Edited by GCollier - 6/27/2002 1:44:10 PM]
Edited to say that a few years ago Dell PCs had proprietry motherboard/PSU power connectors. Standard ones would fit, but the polarity of the cables were different, so a fried MB would result. Don't know if this is still the case, but I do believe Dell still specify their own MBs.
Gary.
[Edited by GCollier - 6/27/2002 1:44:10 PM]
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