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cougar=GCHQ=
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Post subject: NEW DESKTOP?  Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:51 am |
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Any ideas on this little number?
Dell quote £2500 for the box of tricks.
PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6700 Processor (2.66GHz, 1066MHz, 4MB)
MEMORY 4096MB Dual Channel DDR2 677MHz [4x1024] Memory
HARD DRIVE 500GB Serial ATA RAID 0 Stripe [2x250GB 7200rpm drives with DataBurstâ„¢ cache]
OPTICAL DRIVE 16X DVD+/-RW Drive
GRAPHICS CARD DUAL 512MB ATI® Radeon® X1950XTX
PHYSICS PCI CARD 128MB Ageiaâ„¢ PhysXâ„¢ physics accelerator
SOUND CARD Sound Blaster® X-Fi Xtreme Music PCI
Is it worth it?
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:09 pm |
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Just a quick glance but looks a little pricey to me, for £2500 I'd probably look more at building the system myself as well tbh, that way you can really pick out a good brand of motherboard, card etc.
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:31 pm |
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No
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:07 pm |
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If you are willing to spend that kind of money for a new PC, you should just go and build it yourself.
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:10 pm |
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What are you planning to run on the ageia. I am sure there is stuff that does run on it.
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:38 pm |
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if you have that cash to spend, build it yourself. You will end up with a much much better system.
Its defo got some of the latest stuff although personaly i believe the physics card is a waste of money atm. Nothing really supports it. Plus ATI are talking of enabling physics in crossfire setups. (1 card normal, 1 card physics)
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:48 pm |
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Awesome PC, but as has been said, build it yourself + don't use just dell..expensive.
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Post subject: dell Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:25 pm |
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no
get a alienware if your gona pay
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Post subject: Re: dell Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:16 pm |
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happyslappy wrote: no
get a alienware if your gona pay
alternative route.......
build your own 
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cougar=GCHQ=
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:07 pm |
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thanks for your input.
I will look into building my own. Only play DC, but my settings at the moment are on low.
Also plan to play flight sim X so want the highest spec graphics and processor.
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:00 pm |
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for 2500 you could hace 8800gtx in sli and a quad core cpu.
also a single 8800gtx is only just slower than 2 ati on crossfire.
you dont need 4gig of ram either. 
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:05 pm |
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do I need to say it?
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Post subject: Re: dell Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:18 pm |
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happyslappy wrote: no
get a alienware if your gona pay
i would build my own over alien ware... as my brothers mate had an alienware computer and he paid alot for it i think he said... and i payed just under £1000 for mine... and it was better than his  although i have put alot of upgrades into mine in the past 2 years 
build ur own ftw _________________  Games: DC, CSS, BF2, Insurgency, Cod2, Cod4, Cod5, BFBC2, Surpreme Commander, Hidden Source, bfbc2/vietnam, Cod black ops, need for speeds (underground 1 and 2, prostreet, hot pursuit, most wanted), juiced 1 and 2, im sure theres more...
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:27 pm |
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Aye building your own is the best option.....but if your no good at computers then Alienware is the best way to go.....(well second really, depends if you could get a neighbour geek to build one for you) 
Building your own does get you more value for money. _________________  [SNIGG] Sniggerdly | Ask me about how awesome I am at EvE |
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:30 pm |
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Build your own for that price, you can get much better parts than what they are offering you for 2500.
For a start... my comp would probs kick that ones butt other than the CPU and slightly more RAM (bout £350 more than my total cost?)
I paid £1000 for mine and my specs aren't far from that. I think if you bought from them, you'd be throwing 1000+ away.
Also, you could go mega power and get an SLi system with the latest cards and decent parts, rather than the crappy ones they're gona put into it.
Peh... PC5300. *spits on the RAM* >.>
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