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Upgrading machine: Am I forgetting something?
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15-04-2009 6:40pm#1
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The best of Dells value comes with low-end stuff, not high end. At the level of component you're building, yes it would be extremely rare to find a better value Dell setup, and they also use far more generic parts in their builds. Nothing wrong with them, most of the time, but never worth the money once it reaches performance class. (EG, their ram would be basic 667mhz, without heatspreaders, whereas even a 25 euro 2gb kit these days comes with heatspreaders as standard).
The spec is good but perhaps a tiny bit overboard for your uses. It's a fine machine no doubt but for those functions you would also get away with something like this which is still a very fast CPU. I had one and switched to an E8600, even in the vast majority of games which tax the CPU there's not much difference. Where you might - rather, would - notice the difference is heavy multi-tasking. This means using several demanding applications at once, not just running media player, utorrent and browsing the net at once as someone I know used to justify getting a quad.
The PSU would be more then OK on a technical basis, but only if its a good quality one. Some Q-Tec "380w" (more commonly interpeted as '300w sustainable for 2.5 seconds followed by immediate combustion) is not going to be up to much for example. What brand and model is it?
Also, if you're going to be playing HD, it would be worth throwing in something like this.0
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