Tony MY03WRX

Been looking for a new base unit for a while as my current one is getting on a bit...

Had a budget of about £500, but I do like playing the odd on line games (COD4 Unreal Torn 3).

Anyway £500 doesn't really get you much in the way of a gaming machine, but I found this

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DimensionTM XPS 420 (D01X403) Intel® Core™ 2 Quad-Core™ Processor Q6600 (2.40GHz, 8MB, 1066MHz)
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium

Base Intel® Core™ 2 Quad-Core™ Processor Q6600 (2.40GHz, 8MB, 1066MHz)

Memory 3072MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024/2x512]

Keyboard Dell™ Enhanced USB Multimedia Keyboard - UK/Irish (QWERTY)

Video Card SINGLE 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT card

Hard Drive 640GB Dual Hard Drive Raid 0 Stripe (2x320GB - 7200rpm)

Floppy Drives 19-in-1 Media Card Reader

Microsoft Operating System Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium - English

Mouse Dell Optical Scroll Premium Mouse

CD/DVD Drives 16x DVD +/- RW Drive

Sound Cards Integrated HDA 7.1 Dolby Digital Audio

Microsoft Application Software Microsoft® Works 8.0 - English

Standard Warranty Base Warranty - 1 Year XPS Premium Hardware Support (incl. Gaming and On-Site Support)

Hardware Support Base Warranty - 1 Year XPS Premium Hardware Support (incl. Gaming and On-Site Support)

£649 includes VAT & Shipping

Then found a a discount code to bring the price down by 10% to

£584.10

and sold my old base unit to my brother for £130

BooSH

maybe to late now but i was going to get this in the new year seemed a good deal.

MEDION AKOYA MD 8828 Design PC

Snazy

Sounds like a good buy to me

StickyMicky

i`m well out of the loop when it comes to speccing up a new pc, last one i built was a athlon xp2500 with a 9700pro gfx card (what i`m posting from)

but is the above machine reasonable for the cash?

i have nothing really to "upgrade" left on my machine as its a bit past it, so figured the next time around i would just buy a ready made machine and be done with it/not have to research all the latest specs and jargon.

BooSH

I know bob all about computers but my bro does and he thought it was good value for what you get, bearing in mind it's HD&Bluray compatable. I was gonna plug it straight into my LCD TV so would be perfect really.

pimmo2000

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Its a nice machine.. only issue is Dell uses the cheapest parts.. it'll do the job easily though !!! My Dell is great..

Have you noticed memory amounts sticking at 3GB.. becuase to use 4GB you need a 64 bit OS and Dell etc dont wanna pay out for it !

john_s

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Maybe they're avoiding 64 bit OS's to cut down on the additional support "issues" it would give them to deal with.

bioforger

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Who cares 3GB is plenty for 32bit XP and/or Vista. Theres nothing much out there to warrant using 64bit anyways.

pimmo2000

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All covered in cost my friend

pimmo2000

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Its only to gain use of the amount of memory... and the way things are going development is moving to Vista 64