Dell doesn't suck, they just charge a little more for labour, being that they have a bigger techinical support and customer services than your local computer building shop.
I'm not liking that processor, graphics card, or sound card at all. And I like how you have 4GB of RAM. Compared to everything else, that's quite the upgrade, haha. Because of that, I'll give it a 2.animemog
-,- celeron running vista whats next he wasted money on that hunk of junk my score -1 outa 5...
[QUOTE="jremi"][QUOTE="dixiee"][QUOTE="jremi"][QUOTE="dixiee"]Dell rocks, scew all you haters. But it is true that big computer companies rip you off. You can usually build a pc just as good as you could get from dell or hp or any big company for half the cost.dixiee
You look at those specs and dont see a ripoff? Ok........ Guess you didn't read my whole post, did you? But it is true that big computer companies rip you off. -Thats straight from my post if you didn't notice.
[QUOTE="jremi"][QUOTE="dixiee"]Dell rocks, scew all you haters. But it is true that big computer companies rip you off. You can usually build a pc just as good as you could get from dell or hp or any big company for half the cost.dixiee
You look at those specs and dont see a ripoff? Ok........ Guess you didn't read my whole post, did you? But it is true that big computer companies rip you off. -Thats straight from my post if you didn't notice. I did read your entire post but you greatly contradict your self. How can dell "rock" and still be a ripoff at the same time? Any companies that price gouge do no "rock" in my book. Dell rarely ever uses high end equipment. They use cheap components (motherboard, ram, hard drives, psu) and sell it for a huge markup. The only time you get good components is if choose them in the build and pay 1.5x-2x the market price of them. Maybe because dell is a good company and i've owned one. Yeah cause you'd know this? You've never owned one. They don't use cheap components, they are the same you could go out and buy. I would buy a dell over any company such as hp. Wow way to assume!! Lmao... My dad owns a dell, why? Because for the average person yes, its a lot easier ordering from dell. They are still not a great computer company. My laptop will attest to that. I owned one for 2 years before the motherboard burnt out and was going to cost over $400 to be replaced. Their desktops are a joke, they are loaded the brim with bloatware and crap that takes hours to actually remove. They use cheap components as I've stated and thats how they make a profit. You want a computer for typing documents and browsing the web? Fine get a dell. Want a gaming PC? Spend $5k at dell for a decent build or less than half the price building it yourself. And to the comment about building cars is cheaper? WTF you smoking? You really think thats a good analogy? Right.. lol
lol scammed X-D, yeah change your processor to an e6600, and your gpu to an 8800gts 320. Thats about 500$ canadian. Then You probably will have to upgrade power supplies, and whyd your buy 32 bit operating system , with 4 gigs of ram? 32 bit operating systems can only see up to 2.75 gigs of ram, the other ram goes to your gpu, but xp locks it at 2.75 no matter what (replace xp with 32 bit)
For starters, as you have a 32 bit CPU, you're computer can't even use all of the ram you added. Also, the fact that you paid over 1000$ for a celeron based computer is just mind boggling to me. Â
[QUOTE="Bunions"]I payed 2500 dollars. (Canadian) So about 2000 American. It also came with these Extras: Microsoft Office Home and Student Edition 3 Months of Rogers Yahoo! Express Internet Service 13 in 1 Media Card Reader Dell USB Enhanced Multimedia Keyboard 56K PCI Data Fax Modem Dell Optical USB Mouse IEEE 1394 Adapter Kingston MiniSD Card Dell 810 All-In-1 Printer 10 ft black cord 1Yr Ltd. Warranty, 1 yr HW Warranty Support, 1 yr Advance Exchange Dell A225 Speakers Logitech Quickcam Fusion Webcam edit Logitech G5 Laser Gaming Mouse - 2000 Dpi You got ripped off.
I agree that that is a little bit overpriced for a Dell, I have an XPS 400 thats better than that (besides the 4 gigs of RAM) and I only paid like $1500. (I did buy a 8800gts after I got the pc which was another $400)
What I would do would be get the new motherboard and a E6400. That's what I am going to do when I need to upgrade, but so far my computer can play every game on max settings. I'm not sure but if you get a new motherboard you might need a new hard drive as well, but you might be able to de-frag your current one and re-install windows.
As for the video card get a 8800gts if you have the money (I love mine, it can play every game I throw at it perfectly, inlcuding Battlefeild 2 and 2142). But if your only going to play battlefeild 2142 then all you need to get is a 7900gt or something like that. That card will fit your needs for a while if you want to get any new games as well. (you just wont be able to do directX 10 on games if you have vista).
I'd give it a 3/5, and if you upgraded it I would give it a 5/5 in my book (considering it will play everything out right now perfectly and everything that comes out for the nect year very well)
[QUOTE="jremi"]Sigh, Dell is just a ripoff I guess. For less than $2000 I bought: E6600 @ 3.2GHz Zalman 9700 HSF EVGA 680i 2GB Corsair XMS2 800Mhz 4-4-4-12 EVGA KO ACS3 8800GTX PC Power and Cooling Quad SLI 750W PSU Antec Nine Hundred Case the price probably includes the monitor
Well that's fine for your general tasks and older games but for demanding tasks/modern gaming etc, it's quite poor in comparison to what you could have bought (assuming that price is huge, it looks it to me - I'm in the UK). I imagine you would have been able to purchase a completely different league of computer had your dad shopped round more (even it was still pre-built).
There's no excuse nowadays for these vendors to put in a single core CPU, let alone a Celeron. Well, actually there is...
The CPU (especially) and graphics card are low end. I see you said that the CPU could be upgraded to a dual-core Pentium...well that's much better but it's a shame you couldn't have put a Core 2 Duo in there. At least it's not your money that went into the system!
The good points are the monitor, amount of RAM and HDD (if it's not Maxtor/Fujitsu). Considering the points I made in the first paragraph, I'd give it:
@gregoroth To clear cpu stock? ;) yeah i have to agree, it is a little on the expensive side when you could get the parts at a way more cheaper price, but if you don't have any experience assembling a pc i guess that's a premium that people are willing to pay, i think.
I have the exact same Pc as yours (or at least that the picture said) and my bro is using it in the basment as of this moment. The only difference is that mine has 512 Ram. At it's heyday it was a top of the line PC. =PBunions
Can we use negative scores?0utc4st
man ur totally ripped off, ur an idiot . lool man u should get a gtx.
I thought the perfect ammount of RAM for XP was 2GBs and anymore than was a bit wasted. I'll put a rating of 2, little bit overpriced but atleast its something.
[QUOTE="saifiii"][QUOTE="jremi"]Sigh, Dell is just a ripoff I guess. For less than $2000 I bought: E6600 @ 3.2GHz Zalman 9700 HSF EVGA 680i 2GB Corsair XMS2 800Mhz 4-4-4-12 EVGA KO ACS3 8800GTX PC Power and Cooling Quad SLI 750W PSU Antec Nine Hundred Case the price probably includes the monitor Yes it does include his monitor but still a huge rip. For $200 more I got the above listed components AND a 24" Widescreen LCD..
[QUOTE="dixiee"][QUOTE="jremi"][QUOTE="dixiee"][QUOTE="jremi"][QUOTE="dixiee"]Dell rocks, scew all you haters. But it is true that big computer companies rip you off. You can usually build a pc just as good as you could get from dell or hp or any big company for half the cost.jremi
You look at those specs and dont see a ripoff? Ok........ Guess you didn't read my whole post, did you? But it is true that big computer companies rip you off. -Thats straight from my post if you didn't notice.
[QUOTE="jremi"][QUOTE="dixiee"]Dell rocks, scew all you haters. But it is true that big computer companies rip you off. You can usually build a pc just as good as you could get from dell or hp or any big company for half the cost.dixiee
You look at those specs and dont see a ripoff? Ok........ Guess you didn't read my whole post, did you? But it is true that big computer companies rip you off. -Thats straight from my post if you didn't notice. I did read your entire post but you greatly contradict your self. How can dell "rock" and still be a ripoff at the same time? Any companies that price gouge do no "rock" in my book. Dell rarely ever uses high end equipment. They use cheap components (motherboard, ram, hard drives, psu) and sell it for a huge markup. The only time you get good components is if choose them in the build and pay 1.5x-2x the market price of them. Maybe because dell is a good company and i've owned one. Yeah cause you'd know this? You've never owned one. They don't use cheap components, they are the same you could go out and buy. I would buy a dell over any company such as hp. Wow way to assume!! Lmao... My dad owns a dell, why? Because for the average person yes, its a lot easier ordering from dell. They are still not a great computer company. My laptop will attest to that. I owned one for 2 years before the motherboard burnt out and was going to cost over $400 to be replaced. Their desktops are a joke, they are loaded the brim with bloatware and crap that takes hours to actually remove. They use cheap components as I've stated and thats how they make a profit. You want a computer for typing documents and browsing the web? Fine get a dell. Want a gaming PC? Spend $5k at dell for a decent build or less than half the price building it yourself. And to the comment about building cars is cheaper? WTF you smoking? You really think thats a good analogy? Right.. lol No you just hate dell. I had a dell XPS Gen three from 2004 and yes that pc was about 2-3k and it was a great pc. Never had any problems with it. What sort of "cheap" components are you talking about. It had a intel 925x motherboard, a pentium 4ht 3.4ghz, 1gb of pc2-4200 ddr2 533mhz ram and a ati x800xt 256mb graphics card. Oh and 2 dvd rw burners.
[QUOTE="Bunions"]Hello, i just got a new Dell 'Dimension E520', and i would like some experts out there to rate it for me. Thanks. Rating system: 1 - piece of (funbus) 2 - Really bad 3 - It'll do. 4 - Pretty good 5 - Hallelujah! PROCESSOR: Intel Celeron D Processor 346 (3.06, 533 FSB) OPERATING SYSTEM: Genuine Windows Vista Home Basic MONITOR: 20 inch UltraSharp 2007FPW Widescreen Digital Flat Panel MEMORY: 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 4DIMMs HARD DRIVE: 320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache OPTICAL DRIVE: Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW GRAPHICS CARD: 256MB ATI Radeon X1300 Pro SOUND CARD: Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio 2.5/5 - Processor is last generation - Vista is good - Monitor is good - Overkill on the RAM - too much RAM - Hard Drive is OK - No sound card (proper) - Graphics card is poor.
[QUOTE="jremi"][QUOTE="dixiee"][QUOTE="jremi"][QUOTE="dixiee"][QUOTE="jremi"][QUOTE="dixiee"]Dell rocks, scew all you haters. But it is true that big computer companies rip you off. You can usually build a pc just as good as you could get from dell or hp or any big company for half the cost.dixiee
You look at those specs and dont see a ripoff? Ok........ Guess you didn't read my whole post, did you? But it is true that big computer companies rip you off. -Thats straight from my post if you didn't notice.
[QUOTE="jremi"][QUOTE="dixiee"]Dell rocks, scew all you haters. But it is true that big computer companies rip you off. You can usually build a pc just as good as you could get from dell or hp or any big company for half the cost.dixiee
You look at those specs and dont see a ripoff? Ok........ Guess you didn't read my whole post, did you? But it is true that big computer companies rip you off. -Thats straight from my post if you didn't notice. I did read your entire post but you greatly contradict your self. How can dell "rock" and still be a ripoff at the same time? Any companies that price gouge do no "rock" in my book. Dell rarely ever uses high end equipment. They use cheap components (motherboard, ram, hard drives, psu) and sell it for a huge markup. The only time you get good components is if choose them in the build and pay 1.5x-2x the market price of them. Maybe because dell is a good company and i've owned one. Yeah cause you'd know this? You've never owned one. They don't use cheap components, they are the same you could go out and buy. I would buy a dell over any company such as hp. Wow way to assume!! Lmao... My dad owns a dell, why? Because for the average person yes, its a lot easier ordering from dell. They are still not a great computer company. My laptop will attest to that. I owned one for 2 years before the motherboard burnt out and was going to cost over $400 to be replaced. Their desktops are a joke, they are loaded the brim with bloatware and crap that takes hours to actually remove. They use cheap components as I've stated and thats how they make a profit. You want a computer for typing documents and browsing the web? Fine get a dell. Want a gaming PC? Spend $5k at dell for a decent build or less than half the price building it yourself. And to the comment about building cars is cheaper? WTF you smoking? You really think thats a good analogy? Right.. lol No you just hate dell. I had a dell XPS Gen three from 2004 and yes that pc was about 2-3k and it was a great pc. Never had any problems with it. What sort of "cheap" components are you talking about. It had a intel 925x motherboard, a pentium 4ht 3.4ghz, 1gb of pc2-4200 ddr2 533mhz ram and a ati x800xt 256mb graphics card. Oh and 2 dvd rw burners. I don't "hate" dell.. Do you always put words in other peoples mouths? Not very appropriate. All I'm saying is Dell is a RIP OFF for their desktops. As clearly shown from thsi post. You can argue all you want but when I spend half the money you did on the same or better computer I consider that a complete rip.
People, on those prices, it includes the 20inch Widescreen high-def monitor, and 4g ram is expensive. For those who say it should be killing my pc, i ask why? So far it's going great. And note: Also with that price i included the cost for upgrades. By the end of this i should have a much better graphics card, (Not too worried about the sound card) and also i'm getting an intel chip duo which should add up to a total of 3.6 GHz. I think alot of the people who's saying i got ripped off isn't including my moniter/ram and the upgrades. Hopefully this should clear things up.
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