New PC vs. PS3 vs. 360

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#51 dramaybaz
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Yes, you probably could have done better if you built it yourself. But as you've said you don't really have the time and it's your money anyways. Plus I assume you got at least a 3 year warranty, which my encouters with Dell warranty have been pretty good when I fried my laptop MOBO twice. So if you're happy with what you got and what you spent, more power to you.

If you are planning to upgrade your GPU make sure to check your PSU first to make sure you have enough power. If your 6670 works fine for now for what you need, you can always wait since the AMD 7000 series is still rolling out and Nvidia "Kepler" 700 series should be coming in spring/summer.

Do you use this for anything besides gaming? I'm just wondering because of the i7 2600 and 12Gb of RAM

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Yes, I"m a Mechanical Designer and use it for Solidworks, CAMWorks and AutoCAD daily. I did a small amount of research about the PSU before I bought it and according to everyone I've seen discussing it, it is compatible with the GTX 560 TI, though in all honesty after running Portal 2 for a bit and Battlefield: Bad Company 2, I'm feeling ok about what's in it now. I'm sure it would struggle to run BF3 on high settings, but it ain't bad.

What people are sayiing is not that the PC runs well or not. The point is, for that amount of money, you could have had a better PC. Worse still for gaming, you have an overkill CPU with a relatively weak graphics card.
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#52 FashionFreak
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12 GB ram is a waste. What will you be running in the background that eats so much ram? It would have been better to stick with 4 GB and pump the savings into the graphics card.

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#53 Masenkoe
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AMD Radeon HD 6770

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#54 Dave_NBF
Member since 2005 • 1974 Posts

Hey OP,

I don't think you are going to return it from the sounds of it so you have to make the best of it. 1400 though sounds like entry level AW desktop territory or even notebook M17X R3 after discounts. I do know Dell has a return window of 14 days and though I know it's a bit of a pain, I would HIGHLY recommend returning it.

I completely understand not wanting to build a gaming PC if you have the money and are a busy professional. However from the sound of it, you DO want to game and even are debating being a PC gamer in general and with that I would return the system and get a new computer. The main problems will be your PSU and your GPU.