Can you beat this.

evilwood · 11 Jan 2008 at 15:45

Hi all,
Can you beat this system?.

Premium Chassis - Intel® 2 Quad-Core™ Processor Q6600 (2.40GHz, 1066MHz, 8MB cache)
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium - English
3 Year Consumer XPS Premium Hardware Support
Dell™ 24" Black Wide Flat Panel
4096MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [1x1024]
1TB Dual Hard Drive Raid 0 Stripe (2x500GB - 7200rpm)
SINGLE 768MB nVidia® GeForce® 8800 GTX graphics card
TV Tuner and AVIO / Accellerator
4x Blu-Ray Disc Drive
Logitech™ Cordless Desktop™ MX®3200

all for £1534.00

benjo · 11 Jan 2008 at 15:54

Yep, with branded parts too. That spec doesn't say what motherboard and memory that dell are putting in =]

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS II Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Silver
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit x2
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (768-P2-E831-AR)
Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Samsung SpinPoint T 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD501LJ) x2
Asus DRW-2014L1T 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Black/Silver) - Retail
OcUK Value L2442W 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Glossy Black
Logitech Cordless Desktop LX710 - Retail
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK)

Total : £1,363.20

Needs tweaking a lot.. but thats it generally.

melbourne720 · 11 Jan 2008 at 15:56

Yep
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-005-OC&groupid=43&catid=967&subcat=

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-026-OK&groupid=703&catid=17&subcat=510

melbourne720 · 11 Jan 2008 at 15:57

benjo said:
Yep, with branded parts too. That spec doesn't say what motherboard and memory that dell are putting in =]

That's the key. No telling what carp dell will fill you case with.

melbourne720 · 11 Jan 2008 at 15:58

Add a blu ray drive to my spec, but I think it's still under 1500.

Darg · 11 Jan 2008 at 16:05

yep:

You get a better HD drive, better RAM, better mobo, energy efficient version of the CPU, proper version of windows vista, two of the best 500GB harddrives out and all for less then the cost of that dell.

Kelt · 11 Jan 2008 at 16:09

Plus, nobody's mentioning that DellBoy lock down the bios so overclocking's a no-no. Don't know why anyone that frequents overclocking forums would ever consider one.

p4radox · 11 Jan 2008 at 17:18

melbourne720 said:
Yep
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-005-OC&groupid=43&catid=967&subcat=

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-026-OK&groupid=703&catid=17&subcat=510

Surely the Dell monitor is better though?

Darg's spec is fantastic. Just add a Thermalright Ultra 120 and fan, and a Dell 24" monitor and it's perfect.

J.D · 11 Jan 2008 at 17:22

p4radox said:
Surely the Dell monitor is better though?

Darg's spec is fantastic.

I wouldn't be so sure of that. The OCUK screen is meant to be pretty decent. There is a thread about it actually. http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17806175

Chris Beard · 11 Jan 2008 at 17:22

evilwood said:
4096MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [1x1024]

Is this a type-o or are Dell trying to rip you off?

Darg · 12 Jan 2008 at 09:48

Chris Beard said:
Is this a type-o or are Dell trying to rip you off?

I assume they mean 4x1024.

As for the 24" I did hear some quite good things about it in the thread above so I doubt it's really worth the £100+ extra for the dell 24".

evilwood · 12 Jan 2008 at 13:03

Hi,

Yes your correct its 4x1024, plus i get 3 year warrenty and dell are very good on support.

Darg · 13 Jan 2008 at 13:46

evilwood said:
Hi,

Yes your correct its 4x1024, plus i get 3 year warrenty and dell are very good on support.

But you'll be getting much poorer performance for a greater price. 90% of computer problems that would usually get sent back for support can generally be fixed by anyone with a bit of knowledge of computers.

Mr.Bon · 13 Jan 2008 at 13:50

J.D said:
I wouldn't be so sure of that. The OCUK screen is meant to be pretty decent. There is a thread about it actually. http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17806175

I have flicked through a couple of pages on that and it seems to be talking about blacklight bleed? lol - or maybe I should go through the other 100+ pages?