Dell Vostros PCs ?????

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What are these systems like because I have just configured a nice one up on the Dell site with a 6600 for a nice price and Vista Home Premium.

I take it they make good home PCs as well as 'small business' :confused:
 
I have an inspiron 530 (which i believe is pretty much identical to the vostro). I use it as my workstation/downloading rig and its pretty good. They will be fine for most things but they aren't great if you're into gaming. The psu is usually not very strong and that limits upgrading options, also the locked bios means no overclocking. But id imagine they would be fine for a "home pc"
 
rayer said:
What are these systems like because I have just configured a nice one up on the Dell site with a 6600 for a nice price and Vista Home Premium.

I take it they make good home PCs as well as 'small business' :confused:
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I use a Vostro for work, bought my wife one and one for my brother in law, they're far from ideal for gaming machines but are perfect for work stuff.
 
Thats OK then.
I have customised it so it had a quad core Q6600 with 2GB RAM and 256MB Graphics card.
I hear there are programs out there that can overclock the Dells.
No ides what motherboard they stick into these though.
 
It would probably be cheaper to just by the pc with no graphics card and buy it yourself from here. I think dell uses a modified g33 chipset which is ok but it would be risky trying to overclock through hack bios drivers, but you can mod the cpu with a little bit of tape which ups it to 3ghz
 
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