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Hi All

For years I have built my own computers and im ready to build a new one as my current one is nearly 4 years old now!!!

AMD 2100
1 Gig Ram
Radeon 9800 Pro

I havent got the time or patient these days to build my own custom PC and I really just want to go to Dell or someone and choose a off the shelf one (with a bit of customising as well...maybe)

I know everyone here is probably anti pre-build and I know all the arguments against them but which is the best of a bad bunch in youe opinons ??

Persaonlly I think its DELL but intrested in what other people think.

So far I think im going for a Dimension 9200 with the following

Components
Intel® Viiv™ Core™ 2 Duo E6600 Processor (2.4GHz, 1066MHz, 4MB)
Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium - English
Dell™ 20" UltraSharp™ Wide Aspect Digital/Analogue Flat Panel (2007FPW) - UK/Irish
2048MB Dual Channel DDR2 667MHz [2x1024] Memory
320GB Serial ATA RAID 0 Stripe [2x160GB 7200rpm drives with DataBurst™ cache]
256MB nVidia® GeForce® 7900GS graphics card
16X DVD+/-RW Drive
Dell™ Enhanced USB Multimedia Keyboard - UK/Irish (QWERTY)
Dell 2 Button USB Scroll Optical Mouse - Black
Accessories
Sound Blaster® X-Fi Xtreme Music PCI Soundcard
Creative Inspire T7900 7.1 Speaker System
Internal 13-in-1 Media Card Reader
No Modem
Integrated Hybrid (Analogue/Digital) TV tuner PCIe x1 card and Dell™ remote control

£994.70 inc delivery


Any thoughts ??
 
oafc0000 said:
Hi All

For years I have built my own computers and im ready to build a new one as my current one is nearly 4 years old now!!!

AMD 2100
1 Gig Ram
Radeon 9800 Pro

I havent got the time or patient these days to build my own custom PC and I really just want to go to Dell or someone and choose a off the shelf one (with a bit of customising as well...maybe)

I know everyone here is probably anti pre-build and I know all the arguments against them but which is the best of a bad bunch in youe opinons ??

Persaonlly I think its DELL but intrested in what other people think.

So far I think im going for a Dimension 9200 with the following

Components
Intel® Viiv™ Core™ 2 Duo E6600 Processor (2.4GHz, 1066MHz, 4MB)
Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium - English
Dell™ 20" UltraSharp™ Wide Aspect Digital/Analogue Flat Panel (2007FPW) - UK/Irish
2048MB Dual Channel DDR2 667MHz [2x1024] Memory
320GB Serial ATA RAID 0 Stripe [2x160GB 7200rpm drives with DataBurst™ cache]
256MB nVidia® GeForce® 7900GS graphics card
16X DVD+/-RW Drive
Dell™ Enhanced USB Multimedia Keyboard - UK/Irish (QWERTY)
Dell 2 Button USB Scroll Optical Mouse - Black
Accessories
Sound Blaster® X-Fi Xtreme Music PCI Soundcard
Creative Inspire T7900 7.1 Speaker System
Internal 13-in-1 Media Card Reader
No Modem
Integrated Hybrid (Analogue/Digital) TV tuner PCIe x1 card and Dell™ remote control

£994.70 inc delivery


Any thoughts ??
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The graphics card is pretty poor, and the Dell motherboards/power supplies are usually not good enough to upgrade. I'd suggest other places, but that would be breaking the competitor rules. OcUK pre-builds are pretty good for the money, you at least get named components. If you're looking for a gaming PC though, looking at Dell means you're paying over the odds for a lesser system. They're fine for general office machines though.
 
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Looks ok if you can't be bothered building one mate, although as you have the knowledge blah blah blah. Go for it. ;)
 
(Since the thread hasnt been deleted I assume it's not against the rules, right?)

I recently bought a dell machine rather than build my own. It was cheap (cheaper than buying the parts and doing it myself, when you include the copy of windows) and worked fine out of the box.
No, they're not the most upgradable machines in the world but they're cheap and do the job. In my experience, the only company I'd recommend above them is compaq, who (again, this is in my experience) build absolutely fantastic boxes. They're a bit pricier though.
 
That 7900GS GFX card is fine and will play games fine.

As for the rest of the set up its fine - would be worth speccing it and doing it your self so your getting decent components :)
 
jongeeone said:
That 7900GS GFX card is fine and will play games fine.

As for the rest of the set up its fine - would be worth speccing it and doing it your self so your getting decent components :)
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Just in defence of Dell, my box came with Crucial (micron) ram and samsung optical drives. The motherboard, case and psu were dell-made. Tbh I wouldnt say they skimp on components.
 
thats a lot of money for a 7900GS. You could make that system for a lot less..

Actually... meh maybe its a close call. But i stand by my 7900GS comment :) decent price since its including a monitor (didnt notice before)
 
if its any help mate I have a dimension 9200 identical to that (minus X-Fi and speakers + vista ultimate 32bit) at work and it does the job very very well so I can answer any Q's you have :cool:

I also went from a lower end AMD system (2500xp, 1gb ram, ti4600) to the one at work, I have also recently purchased and built a new rig that is very similar to yours (22" dell, E6420, Geil 2gb ram, DS3P, BFG 7600 gt oc) and I am having a few problems with it at the mo mainly memory voltage problems! it did actually cost me less as the system was £600 and the 22" monitor £200 (minus case, speakers, kb mouse and dvd drives)

my advice is that if you want something that works and works well then go for pre-built, if you want the best performance & quality + being able to upgrade then build yourself.. :D

or go for ocuk pre-built as I heard they are pretty good ;)

p.s if you do go for a dell, put the the dvd in and restore to factory settings as this gets rid of all the AOL, Symantec crap that they put on there!
 
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