Want your opinions...

Devil5434

Well I talked to alot of people about upgrading my dell dimension 8400 but nothing much could be done.....so I went around browsing and I came across this: (My budget is just 2000 euro but this just a little bit above and I dont' want no massive computer with all the specs and stuff in it)

Intel® Viiv™ Core™ 2 Quad-Core Q6600 Processor (2.4GHz,1066MHz,8MB cache)
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium - English
HARDWARE SUPPORT 1 Year Base Warranty - Collect & Return
MONITOR Dell™ 19" Silver Wide Flat Panel (SE198WFP) - UK/Irish
MEMORY 2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]
HARD DRIVE 1 TB Serial ATA RAID 0 Stripe [2x500GB 7200rpm drives with DataBurst™ cache]
GRAPHICS CARD SINGLE 768MB nVidia® GeForce® 8800 GTX graphics card
OPTICAL DRIVE 16x DVD+/-RW & 48x CDRW/DVD Combo Drive
KEYBOARD Dell™ Entry Quietkey USB Keyboard - UK/Irish (QWERTY)
MOUSE Dell 2 Button USB Scroll Optical Mouse - Black
PHYSICS PCI CARD 128MB Ageia™ PhysX™ physics accelerator PCI card
Accessories
SOUND CARD Sound Blaster® X-Fi Xtreme Music PCI Soundcard


Just tell me what ya all think about it...thanks:)

CarefulNow

That is a very high end machine. Ditch the physics card. Drop the processor to a core duo and get a 22" screen.

Devil5434

Arite I'll do the processor but the 19" screen is free so I'll probably stick with that

Blazer

I'd say stick with the quad-core and drop the Ageira card.
With what you save on the card use it to upgrade the monitor to a 20 widescreen or 22" otherwise you're only wasting that 8800GTX at the 19" resolutions.

requiem1

yeah stick with the quad core and if i were you i'd upgrade to the larger monitor or possibly more ram cause vista uses up to and above 1.89GB** when gaming
**based on my experience with an 8800gts and vista playing BF2142

Blazer

requiem1 wrote:

yeah stick with the quad core and if i were you i'd upgrade to the larger monitor or possibly more ram cause vista uses up to and above 1.89GB** when gaming
**based on my experience with an 8800gts and vista playing BF2142

agrees...was playing FSX with 2gigs and game crashed saying it was out of available memory..wtf!:eek:

Anti

if you are sticking with a 19" monitor and do not play to upgrade it to a bigger one for a year or more i would ditch the quad core, and get a E6850, 4gb ram and a 8800gts 640. Save the money and invest it in a upgrade further down the line.

requiem1

Mathew Reilly wrote:

agrees...was playing FSX with 2gigs and game crashed saying it was out of available memory..wtf!:eek:

i go that with COD2!!! it shut my computer down and i thought my graphics card had failed and i nearly had a fit until it rebooted and the error log told me i had run out of available system memory!!! scary times

Devil5434

ya arite thanks guys...I'll probably drop vista and get windows xp cuz I was using vista the other day and didn't quite like it....and yeah I'll drop the Ageira card, istead get a 22" moniter.

Thanks again:)