Tiggs

I was going to spend about £450 on an ebay PC and then about £200 on a 19 inch screen.


But wondered if its worth just getting the lot from Dell for not much more.....hows this (spec and price) for a home office PC that i wont need to upgrade in a hurry?
Unit Price Incl. VAT £877.89

Dimension 9150 (D04916) Qty 1
Intel® Viiv™ technology -Intel® Pentium® D 930 Dual Core(3.00GHz,800MHz,2x2MB), Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 Base Intel® Viiv™ technology -Intel® Pentium® D 930 Dual Core(3.00GHz,800MHz,2x2MB)
Microsoft Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
Memory 2048MB Dual Channel DDR2 533MHz (4x512) Memory
Keyboard Easter Promotion: Logitech LX700 Wireless Keyboard & Mouse
Monitor Dell E196FP 19" Midnight Grey (TCO99) Flat Panel Monitor
Video Card 256MB nVidia™ GeForce™ 7300LE Turbocache graphics card
Hard Drive 320GB Serial ATA RAID 0 Stripe [2x160GB 7200rpm drives with DataBurst™ cache]
Floppy Drives Internal 13-in-1 Media Card Reader & 1.44MB Floppy Drive
Mouse Mouse Included in Wireless Keyboard and Mouse option
Modem Dell v92 Data/Fax/Voice modem
CD/DVD Drives 16x max. DVD+/-RW Drive
Sound Cards Integrated Audio with Dolby Digital 7.1 capability
Standard Warranty 1-Year Collect and Return service
Cover It with Dell Support Services 1-Year Collect and Return service
AntiVirus & Security Software No Security/Anti-Virus Software
Digital Photography No Photo Organising & Sharing Software/No Photo Editing Video Editing IEEE 1394 PCI Adapter card
Dell System Media Kit No Resource CD
TV Tuner and Remote Control Integrated Analogue TV tuner PCI card and Dell MCE remote control
Dell Media Experience No DMX Media Experience

lightning101

Everything is great apart from the 'two bob' graphics card - its barely entry level Worth £35 inc vat

Tiggs

does that matter much?

i use the pc for work.....need to be able to have loads of apps running at once but nothing fancy...word, excell, etc, etc

also use it for editing photos and dv video but again, nothing fancy......and the net.

shoiuld i just upgrade the card while im at it?

lightning101

Have a look on MESH's website, they could probably do the same spec with a monitor for about a grand.

http://www.meshcomputers.com/Default...DUCT&KEY=66098

Best Value Performance PC
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 4200+
with HyperTransport™ Technology
Genuine Windows® Media Center
ASUS A8N-SLI Nforce 4 PCI-X Mainboard
1024MB DDR 400 Memory
250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive
512MB Nvidia 7300GS PCI-X Graphics
19" Viewsonic VA-1912 Widescreen with
DVI & 8ms response time + built in Speakers
Sony 16x Dual Layer DVD Writer
7.1 Channel Surround Sound Audio
Logitech Cordless KB & Optical Mouse
Classic Warranty-3Years parts & lab.
£899.00 inc VAT
(£765.11 ex VAT)

Tiggs

wow- upgrade card is £95...do i need that???

Tiggs

"Monitor Dell E196FP 19" Midnight Grey (TCO99) Flat Panel Monitor "

monitor is in that price- seems very good, mesh was about a grand but thats MORE than Dell...dell just seem real cheap?

lightning101

And upgrade the card to a 7800GT

Tiggs

this is novatechs deal....no monitor though

Nero Pro Extreme 930 Dual Core

3.0GHz Pentium 4 930 Dual Core
1024MB DDR2 533MHz Dual Channel RAM
500GB 7200rpm ( 2x 250GB ) SATA Hard Drive
512MB DDR GeForce 6800XT PCI-E
16x Dual Format +/- DVD Burner
DVD Rom Drive
7.1 8-Channel Capable Sound
2 x RJ45 Network Port (10/100/1000)
Order Code: PC-0892T
Ex Vat Inc Vat 830

Tiggs

what diff will it make though?

Tiggs

thats mesh deal....i dont know much about PC's but the dell has more ram (and its ddr2) and a bigger hard drive and dual thingy...isnt that a better buy?>