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ChrisLandin

ChrisLandin

ChrisLandin

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Hiya guys, im after some advice / info.

My brother in law being the oracle that he is has just spent a grand on a Dell pc. Now im not knocking dell cos im sure that for people who dont know or dont have the time to put together there own system they are an excellent option. However imho he's been ripped. Its all standard dell on an i7 chip. It has a 500gb hdd, no raid, vista 64 and a ati 3650 installed and he thinks his system is great. Its running ddr3 800mhz Ram. As always the bios options are very limited so he has no headroom for overclocking, anyways getting back on track he called round last night and gave me a bit of a blasting over using old tech, which I acknowledged as yes my 775 chip is "old" tech but still very capable. So the question I pose is this which chip would be better in the day to day world of gaming, surfing, music & dvd playback and a little word processing an i7 @ 2.66 or a Q9550 @ 3.6. The reason I ask is for my money bags brother in law cash is no problem but just for once I would like to be able to say he was ripped, however I might be wrong!!
 
Cheers for that. I wasnt 100% confident so thats why I asked the question. Yea I told him at the time he was paying a lot of cash for it but he would listen, cash talks as they say and cos he was paying a chunk of money he thought he was getting a cracking deal. I gave him Crysis to play last night just to be evil and it was like watching a slide show at times haha, I shouldnt laugh.
 
Like I said ripped. He got a 20" dell monitor and a standard wired keyboard and mouse but other than that that is what he got and yea its running at 800 unless if its triple channel could that make it 1200mhz?? Cpuz records 400mhz anyhow!!
 
Cheers guys for all the replies. Yea the ram is undercooked massively actually. They are running at 800mhz but its rated speed as of cpuz is that it will run at 533 or 1066 effectivley. It wasnt sold as a gaming pc more like mid entry but I still think it was way over priced. He moved to this over his previous Dell which was powered by a QX9770!!! The boy is mad I tell you.
 
Yea rroff all was at stock, the best bit is ( well not for the likes of us on here ) that he sold the old system which was very handy indeed for peanuts. He had no idea what to do with it didnt want it cluttering up his house so took it to his local computer shop and sold it to them!! Thay had his eyes out big time over the price. Basically he got £500 for a qx9770 a asus 790i board 4gb ddr3 ram and 9600gt's in sli. I think it had 2 500gb drives in raid to and one of those asus xonar cards. Plus obviously ih had an os which was vista premium,
 
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