Good Deal Pc

Intel Pentium 4 550 (3.4GHz) Processor
2gb Dual-Channel DDR2 SDRAM (533MHz) (4 DIMM slots)
320GB Serial ATA drive (2x 160GB SATA drive)
Nvidia 7800GTX 256MB DDR3
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Audio Card
16x max. DVD+/-RW Dual Layer
DVD-ROM
8x USB 2.0 ports
56k modem
DELL box

i just wondered if you guys think this pc is a good deal for 360 pounds uk

i wanting to play fear and battlefield 2042

What, no ethernet card??
Sounds pretty good, I guess. Don't know if I would spend that kind of money on it. That would be over $700.00 US. Are there no Core2 Duo's for a good price??

I think its a nice deal considering 2GB RAM & 7800GTX.
The soundcard is pretty good too, much better than onboard sound u have most for that price.
It wont be the fastest available but it sure will be a nice gaming machine.
Higher specs than my pc and i have np running new games.
:thumbup:

What, no ethernet card??

Onboard ethernet as i bought my pc also with 56k card 2 years back

ethernet card have one in my other pc, so i can just put in in the pci slot right?

Yes, you can.

For the budget you have you have a pretty good setup. Sure there are some small points one can argue about but overall a decent spec. I guees one can assume this is a preassembled computer at Dell right?

I'm not sure what the exchange rate is. But it sounds like a decent deal. Most Dell's come with an intergrated nic (lan) :-)

Actually Slay, I looked up the exchange rate before I posted. That's why I said it was over $700. Just a few over it though. I'm the kind that would take what I already had in an older PC that I could use in a major upgrade and do my homework and try to find parts that would put me where I wanted to be first. Then if I couldn't do a little better I would consider the purchase. He will still end up with an OEM version of windows. I hate that kind of crap because it tends to limit upgrading itself.

Originally posted by BuffaloChips@Feb 7 2007, 05:46 AM
Actually Slay, I looked up the exchange rate before I posted. That's why I said it was over $700. Just a few over it though. I'm the kind that would take what I already had in an older PC that I could use in a major upgrade and do my homework and try to find parts that would put me where I wanted to be first. Then if I couldn't do a little better I would consider the purchase. He will still end up with an OEM version of windows. I hate that kind of crap because it tends to limit upgrading itself.

Apart from a floppydisk drive and a cdrom drive I actually can hardly imagine anything that's worth taking to your next upgrade. The mobo and processor are usualy outdated and with a new mobo comes a new type of memory (usualy). Then the psu that most likely isn't powerfull enough to do a good job on a brand new pc. The videocard will defenitly be replaced by any gamer and that leaves your hdd. Your average older hdd is so slow it will bottleneck every bit of your new powerhouse and then what?

Originally posted by BuffaloChips@Feb 7 2007, 01:46 AM
Actually Slay, I looked up the exchange rate before I posted. That's why I said it was over $700. Just a few over it though. I'm the kind that would take what I already had in an older PC that I could use in a major upgrade and do my homework and try to find parts that would put me where I wanted to be first. Then if I couldn't do a little better I would consider the purchase. He will still end up with an OEM version of windows. I hate that kind of crap because it tends to limit upgrading itself.

At $700 I'd let it pass. $400 -$450 I'd think about it. The CPU, 7800GTX,
320GB HD, memory and the DVD drives could be used. But the mobo, case,
power supply, and heatsink would have to be replaced. With good replacement
parts you might get it running at 4 GHz which would acceptable. But $700 +
new parts and your still stuck with a sloth for the money.

Slay, that's exactly why I build my own. Take mine for example. I have a perfectly good cd/dvd burner (2) 200 gb WD hd's 1 is SATA and 1 is IDE, The case will do to build a newer PC, the video is sufficient a nVidia 6600. That just leaves me with the MB, processor and RAM that would be up for replacement for now. That is unless I went PCI-e. But for $700 or less I could still do it AND buy a full version of Vista.