Ash Posted January 27, 2008 Posted January 27, 2008 This just a quick post to work out what these specs are worth if i was to but a PC with them: PROCESSOR XPS 420 Viiv Intel® Processor Q6600 Quad Core™ 2.40GHz, 1066Mhz FSB, 8MB cache MEMORY 3072MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024/2x512] HARD DRIVE 1TB Dual Hard Drive Non RAID (2x500GB - 7200rpm) GRAPHICS CARD 256MB ATI® Radeon™ HD 2600 XT graphics card Would this be a good computer for university work, and playing games. Cheers Ash
Caris Posted January 27, 2008 Posted January 27, 2008 So do you want a price to sell it or build each part separately?
DCK Posted January 27, 2008 Posted January 27, 2008 Meh, Dell UK is a ripoff, I can't reccommend buying anything but laptops from Dell. It'll be good for work and some light games, but there's probably more you can get out of your money. What's your budget?
Ash Posted January 27, 2008 Author Posted January 27, 2008 The one featured in my first post costs £680 with bluetooth added. i choose the XPS because it looks good and will go with my room, does this come with wireless as standard, or do i need to buy an adaptor on top of the price. My budget is around £650 to £700.
Caris Posted January 27, 2008 Posted January 27, 2008 If you can stretch to £750 this is a monster. All high end parts, well built. You will need to add a OS though. There's also other systems for cheaper on there. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/syscon_int.php?prodid=FS-062-OK
McPhee Posted January 27, 2008 Posted January 27, 2008 This just a quick post to work out what these specs are worth if i was to but a PC with them: PROCESSOR XPS 420 Viiv Intel® Processor Q6600 Quad Core™ 2.40GHz, 1066Mhz FSB, 8MB cache MEMORY 3072MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024/2x512] HARD DRIVE 1TB Dual Hard Drive Non RAID (2x500GB - 7200rpm) GRAPHICS CARD 256MB ATI® Radeon™ HD 2600 XT graphics card Would this be a good computer for university work, and playing games. Cheers Ash Pretty crappy deal to be honest. Dell make good base models but rip you off for the upgrades! I'll start off by saying avoid the quad core trap. Most games and desktop applications aren't optimised for quads so the spare 2 cores just end up running background tasks. Most people would be better off with a faster dual core. The ATI 2600XT is a good graphics card, but for £650-£700 you should be looking at an ATI 3850 or 3870 or an Nvidia 8800 series card. Do you really need 1TB of HDD space from the get-go? Hard Drives are getting cheaper all the time, and they are really easy to install so overbuying is basically throwing money away. Also, Dell are vastly overcharging for the 3GB RAM upgrade, avoid it like the plague! Try these stores: DinoPC.co.uk PCSpecialist.co.uk PCoption.co.uk 3xs.scan.co.uk (they will build you anything, whether it's listed or not, just give them a call) You'll be looking for something down the lines of: Processor: E6750/E8400 Motherboard: Asus P5K/Abit IP-35 Graphics Card: 3870/8800GT RAM: Anything over 2GB. Don't buy DDR3 or over 4GB of DDR2 Hard Drive: However much you need DVD Drives: Anything, 2 if you are gonna be making copies of disks Case: Whatever you like the look of Ever thought of building you're own? You can get a pretty good gaming PC for under £500!
RoadKill Posted January 28, 2008 Posted January 28, 2008 You genuinely only need 2GB and dual core, almost all the time you're running a quad core, I bet you money it'll be pretty idle
DCK Posted January 28, 2008 Posted January 28, 2008 Don't buy a Dell laptop whatever you do. I have one through a Uni deal, and it works really well.
Colin Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 You genuinely only need 2GB and dual core, almost all the time you're running a quad core, I bet you money it'll be pretty idle Got to agree with this. I picked up a quad core purely for rendering, as it pisses all over using a dual core for that.............if I wasn't doing any DCC stuff though then I wouldn't have bothered. It's like having 4-5 computer screens and never really having a need for them.
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