cong

The Dell Online Store: Build Your System

£3.5k to spare any1?

Neanderthal

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no monitor either!?

PeteBrant

You could build more powerful for much less.

Iain Young

I suspect the dual 8800s accounts for a lot of that price

cong

build a much better 1? are you nuts lol...its quad core machine with the fastest chips

Tidgy

just managed to get it over 5 grand pmsl

much much much cheaper and faster machine if you build it yourself is available

PeteBrant

I didn't say *much* better, I said better. They have cut corners - For example,. the memory is plain old PC-6400 (667Mhz DDR2) you could buy 1000Mhz RAM for less than dell want for 6400. You could throw in a Platinum Xi-fi soundbalster and a THX speaker system and still be less than dell charge.

PeteBrant

Intel Core 2 Quadro Extreme Edition QX6700 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.66GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £646

Abit AW9D-MAX Intel 975X (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard -£131

OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-8500 1066MHz SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2N1066SR2GK) £270

BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - £397

BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - £397

BFG Ageia PhysX Accelerator - Retail £129

Western Digital Raptor 150GB WD1500ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM £148

Western Digital Raptor 150GB WD1500ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM £148

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro - Retail £211

Hiper HPU-4M730 Type R 730W ATX2.2 PSU - Black £80

CoolerMaster Stacker 830 - Silver Trim (No PSU) £144

Total - £2700 Inc VAT - Throw in another £100 for a copy of WMC and a decent mouse and keyboard and you have a far better machine with money to spare

Leaving you £500 spare for a nice 24" widescreen monitor.

cong

well it does come with that special case with a cooling system 10gb more hd space, and xi fi card already, also it come with 2 year warrenty and a copy of xp, i think the warranty adds alot to it

but yep your right you can build it for cheaper, but if your getting lazy like me just order 1

GrahamG

The Dell Online Store: Build Your System

Thats more like it.....

Hanslow

Think we're about to get one of these babies at work Can never have too fast a machine for browsing t'internet

Amazing what deals you can get from Dell if you ring them up and haggle too

PeteBrant

The sound card I specced is the top of the range, about £100 more expensive than the standard "music" Xi-Fi card in the Dell machine.

The warranty is a complete waste of money - all the components you buy are covered for a year though manufactureres warranty anyway, and provided you build it properly, they are unlikely to fail - If anything goes it will be the HDD or the DVD drive - anything with moving parts. Solid state electronics rarely fails.

The case I specified, a coolermaster, is absolutely top of the line and far far superior to the dell case.

But you pays your money, you takes your choice.

InvisibleMan

youre not wrong, weve got an up speced one after plenty of bullsh1ting

our last over spec'd server that was way over requirements ended up as a FEAR server but it has been decommissioned after the installation of this one

Fuzz

They want £663 quid for the 24" monitor on there.

Bought mine about two months ago for £500 delivered. PMSL

Hanslow

Fuzz, ours were just under 400 quid once haggled