is this prebuilt comp good

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#1 sabbath2gamer
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well im buying a dell vostro for about 539 and before you start to hate on dell i gotta say im on a budget and cant afford even an 800 computer

thats why when i buy it i can upgrade it later on replace the mobo power supply and add cooling..

well for now i just want to know if it can play quake wars, and counter strike

also i want to know should i get it with windows xp or windows vista home premium?

operating system (?)

1 gig of ram (will upgrade to 2 later, up to 4 gigs)

160 gigs of hard drive

300 watt power supply (i will upgrade to 600 when i get enough cash)(i hope it wont mess up my comp)

Nvidia Geforce 8600gt 256 mb (i dont know how much it can store, if its not much i will replace the mobo LATER)

Intel Pentium dual core processor E2140 (yes i will upgrade later on)

and i will be going wireless using roadrunner

Well just wanted to know if its good enough for quake wars and counter strike

any other though on what i should do or what i should get to help out this system?

thanx in advance...

PS. it be much easier and helpful if you could rly criticize this,i need to know the weak-points. But stick to the comp i just dont have time to built it myself because i know you guys are always saying to build it yourself i cant im sorry to busy (lol im only 15 but yes im a busy teen)

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#2 threepac81
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I hate you... Stop spamming the board with this crap.
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#3 sabbath2gamer
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what the hell are you talking about?
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#4 SiKh22
Member since 2006 • 4661 Posts
For 539, that is a good deal, not to bad at all.
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#5 mastershake575
Member since 2007 • 8574 Posts
its not a bad computer espically for its price you can play pretty much any game on medium or higher
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#6 kodex1717
Member since 2005 • 5925 Posts

Have you already bought it? because I can reccomend some parts from newegg that are a lot better than this for about $100 less. Also, a 8600GT won't run on a 300W PSU.

EDIT: I just noticed that you said that you can't build it yourself. Why? It takes maybe an hour.

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#7 sabbath2gamer
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Well i haven't ordered it yet. but what parts were you going to recommend?
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#8 kodex1717
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RAM $43

Hard Disk $47

Motherboard $49

Processor $80

DVD Burner $28

X1950PRO $137

Power Supply $70

TOTAL = $454

This costs $80 less than your prebuilt and you won't have to upgrade anything anytime soon. It could maybe use another GB of RAM, but it doesn't really need it.

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#9 sabbath2gamer
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thanx man i'll certanly look into it...
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#10 WhiteSnake5000
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Have you already bought it? because I can reccomend some parts from newegg that are a lot better than this for about $100 less. Also, a 8600GT won't run on a 300W PSU.

EDIT: I just noticed that you said that you can't build it yourself. Why? It takes maybe an hour.

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Yes it will.
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#11 sabbath2gamer
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is everything compatible with each other?
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RAM $43

Hard Disk $47

Motherboard $49

Processor $80

DVD Burner $28

X1950PRO $137

Power Supply $70

TOTAL = $454

This costs $80 less than your prebuilt and you won't have to upgrade anything anytime soon. It could maybe use another GB of RAM, but it doesn't really need it.

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What could an extra $100-$150 do?

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#13 LouieV13
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Have you already bought it? because I can reccomend some parts from newegg that are a lot better than this for about $100 less. Also, a 8600GT won't run on a 300W PSU.

EDIT: I just noticed that you said that you can't build it yourself. Why? It takes maybe an hour.

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I ran a 8600GT on a 300w and my friend runs one on a 250w so YOU LIE