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How good a deal is this?

MRTULES · 2012-01-04 01:26:51

I would appreciate if people could check this out and tell me what you think? What specs would you change (if any) and what could you build for same price? As one person eludes to, the CPU is €260 on hardwareversand that along with the 1tb hdd seems like it could be a good deal.…

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04-01-2012 2:26am

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MRTULES

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I would appreciate if people could check this out and tell me what you think? What specs would you change (if any) and what could you build for same price? As one person eludes to, the CPU is €260 on hardwareversand that along with the 1tb hdd seems like it could be a good deal.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056502389&utm_source=notification&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=digestthread

Thanks in advance

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#2 04-01-2012 2:42am
ShadowHearth

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depends if you really need that cpu.

no matter how much you save on dell system now, you will lose alot of money on upgrading later on.

you buy custom pc now and you can reuse your components later on and work with upgrades. buy dell system and all you can upgrade - GPU.

that spec will have ****y gpu, which is a NONO for games. so add on top of that cost another 200-250eu atleast.

so for 800eu-850eu you can build a monster pc.

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#3 04-01-2012 3:07am
deconduo

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Its about the same price as a self built, which is ridiculously cheap for a dell. However its a terribly unbalanced system for gaming, you'd be much better off with an i5-2500k + 6870 then the i7-2600 + GT 530. Also the 6GB of RAM is a joke.

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#4 04-01-2012 3:52am
pockets3d

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possibly clearing of stock before ivy processors come out ?

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