Just built up an xps 730 h2c on internet :)

Bazz321

Bazz321

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1SYSTEM COLOR Victory Red Anodized Aluminum Chassis with X-panel edit
PROCESSOR Intel® Core™2 Extreme QX9770 (12MB,3.2GHz Factory O/C'd to 3.8GHz edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate edit
MEMORY 4GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz OC'd up to 1600MHz-4 DIMMs edit
VIDEO CARD DUAL CARDS: Dual nVidia GeForce GTX 280 – 1024MB edit
HARD DRIVE 750GB - Seagate 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache edit
ADDITIONAL HARD DRIVE 750GB - Seagate 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache edit
OPTICAL DRIVE Dual Drives: Blu-ray Disc (BD) Burner (Writes to DVD/CD/BD) and DVD+/-RW edit
MONITOR Dell S2409W 24" Full HD Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor edit
SOUND CARD Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer (D) Sound Card edit
SPEAKERS Logitech Z-5500 Speaker System (ships separately) edit
KEYBOARD Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard (ships separately) edit
MOUSE Logitech G9 Laser Gaming Mouse (ships separately) edit
FLOPPY & MEDIA READER 3.5 in Floppy Drive edit
My Software & Accessories
ANTI-VIRUS & SECURITY McAfee SecurityCenter 15-months edit
PRODUCTIVITY No Productivity software pre-installed edit
My Service
WARRANTY AND SERVICE 1Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis edit
REMOTE ACCESS Receive an E-mail for your Dell Remote Access edit
DATASAFE ONLINE BACKUP Dell Online Backup 2GB for 1 year edit
PC HOME INSTALLATION In-Home System Setup edit
ALSO INCLUDED WITH YOUR SYSTEM
MODEM No Modem Requested
System Details 7-slot, ATX Design Motherboard
System Details 1 kilowatt Power Supply
System Details Two 120mm x 38mm front fans
Cooling Option Dell CPU Liquid/TEC Cooling ATX Unit
Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 9.0 Multi-Language
Dell Digital Entertainment No Entertainment software pre-installed
Labels Windows Vista™ Premium

£3 416.5 = $6,833
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Is this Good :o?
 
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Short answer no.

Good spec, bad time and waste of a lot of money.


Dell are going to put a hefty manufacturers premium of a good few hundred pounds on that system.

The overclock to 3.8Ghz is a joke considering its watercooled - i.e. Dell being lazy LANGUAGE!
DDR3 is pointless unless on i7 which you're not, 4GB of Pc8500 DDR2 will perform equally aswell in games and will save a shed load of money.

Mentioning i7, if you have the money for that system then you may as well wait for the new X58 mobos and core i7 cpus.

Also find out the exact motherboard, for all you know Dell could be fobbing you off with some cheap LANGUAGE!
motherboard.

In conclusion: build it yourself - have better spec for less money
 
AlexTrickle said:
i.e. Dell being lazy s***
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i would sort that out

Bazz321 said:
Hi guys i just built a dell xps 730 h2c on the internet but not bought it

Is this Good :o?
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no - it is a massive waste of potential - the inability to upgrade sets it down a notch too

dell alienware put a massive premium on their systems

and they always use terrible motherboards - the thing your whole pc revolves arond shouldnt be its weakest point

simple rule:
dell for work/office/browsing/family
self build/custom build for gaming/specific intensive tasks

if i were you


i wouldnt consider watercooling
if you are not confident enough to build from scratch then you will not be confident enough to troubleshoot/maintain a water system

i would get a good pc - on high end air - that needs little maintainance

look on here

ocuk do a much better range of systems for your money

and you CAN upgrade the parts!

if you are spending that much
i suggest waiting until they get their i7 systems on the configurator

[not far off now]
 
That's a beast of a system, but buying it from Dell will be a waste of money. They'll slap on a few extra hundred to build it, like it's been said the motherboard might be cheap and cheerful.

If you've got this amount of money to spend, then you may aswell wait for the new chipset from intel, the i7. Although if the rig is mainly for gaming I'd go for a core 2 (The i7 shows hardly any gain from a gaming point of view, not for the money anyway). Build that spec yourself and at least you know the components will be of good quality and you'll save a fair bit.

If you give the guys on here a budget then they'll give you a spec.

P.S. alex, I'd star out the sweary words ;)
 
NO.

You're ripped off! OcUK are much better value for money, especially if you build it yourself. However, I sense that you're not here for a serious build.

- Huw
 
What games are you gonna play with that computer? Surely at 10, you won't be able to play the most demanding games out there which tend to have an over 15 rating...
 
Well the sound setup (speakers and soundcard) is pretty poor and 1KW PSU is silly, but not bad apart from that.

If your 10, your better off spending money on a BMX if you ask me. :p
 
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