Stick With Dell Or Custom Pc

sheilak5827 · 22 Aug 2007 at 20:59

Hi I have been given an xps 710 h2c watercooling Pc which is 4 months old, with a qx6700 processor on board, beforehand I started to coleect component's to build a pc ie, lian li v2100, memory, powersupply etc.
Would you stick and upgrade the dell xps or build a custom Pc, and advice/suggestions would be appreciated.

Kanifee · 22 Aug 2007 at 21:14

ok so the dell has a quad core 6700 in it with a water cooling setup?

if this is the case id stick with the dell for now as form what i gather there isnt much headroom for overclocking the quads because of heat issue's i may be wrong though.
keep the componants you have got and buy a cheap graphics card to tide youover then grab a g90 gpu when they are released. and then a new mobo because it shouldnt be long before new boards are released.

might be the wrong section for this aswell, maybe general hardware is more suited for this.

sheilak5827 · 22 Aug 2007 at 21:20

dell also comes with 2 8800gtx's, 2gb memory..would you stick and sell custom component's

Kanifee · 22 Aug 2007 at 21:33

lol! no contest really is there you pretty much own a top spec pc only thing could really beat it is a sli ultra set up with 4 2gb sticks lol!
sell the custom componants and buy another 2gb of ram and ya pretty much there

martianrobot · 29 Aug 2007 at 18:41

sheilak5827 said:
dell also comes with 2 8800gtx's, 2gb memory..would you stick and sell custom component's

I think you should keep the custom parts and I'll take the Dell off your hands if you ain't too bothered either way. I won't even charge you for coming to pick it up.

martianrobot · 29 Aug 2007 at 18:47

damian666 said:
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C2D E2140 @ 2.12GHZ (bad mem dividers)
BFG 8800GTS OC @ 650/900
2GB DDR2:800 @ 898mhz
GIGABYTE GA-G33M-S2 cmon gigabyte weres the bios :|

Hey, damian666. SNAP!

Well, pretty much. I bought an E2140 to put in my machine, then discovered the BIOS limitations on the mobo for that processor, even with the F4a BIOS. Have currently got an E6300, which clocks much better - currently at 2.8ghz just by upping the FSB to 400 from 266.

Kanifee · 29 Aug 2007 at 20:30

im realy dying to get a new cpu somthing with a 1066fsb to ensure a better clock.
hopefully my next purchase unless the g90's are hear and it will be my 8800gts thats gone with the wind(ows)

but that aside still a cracking machine, how do you find your g33m? i think its by far the best matx mobo ive used on any cpu platform.
i to convert to vista ultimate 32bit not to long ago and quite like it, im jumping to 64bit closer to crimbo so i can go 4gb ddr2

martianrobot · 30 Aug 2007 at 00:06

damian666 said:
im realy dying to get a new cpu somthing with a 1066fsb to ensure a better clock.
hopefully my next purchase unless the g90's are hear and it will be my 8800gts thats gone with the wind(ows)
but that aside still a cracking machine, how do you find your g33m? i think its by far the best matx mobo ive used on any cpu platform.
i to convert to vista ultimate 32bit not to long ago and quite like it, im jumping to 64bit closer to crimbo so i can go 4gb ddr2

My G33 is a great little board, I agree, the best I've used. It's packed with features, and it OC's the E6300 with ease with only very basic BIOS changes - I'm not confident or knowledgeable enough to push it any further, messing about with voltages etc, but a 1GHz OC on stock is nothing to moan about

Up until I got it last week I had been using an Asrock, and I could only OC the E6300 to 2.1GHz, and that wasn't particularly stable. I killed the sound chip in that somehow, so rather than fork out for a sound card I thought I'd get a decent new board. I'm gonna keep the Asrock though, as it is completely OSx86 compatible and I used it as Hackintosh now and then. Don't tell Steve though

I'm going to be building another system tomorrow though: got a the Gigabyte G33Ms big brother is on its way, the GA-P35C-DS3R, along with a P182 case. It never ends

Kanifee · 30 Aug 2007 at 10:47

sounds like a lot of fun, i love building new pc's its the one time i dont mind a fresh install.
opening the new packets and smelling that new factory sealed smell. there's nothing like it. see what you have done now, im going to have to go and buy something new to stop the craving wich i suppose isn't a bad thing lol!