Long time lurker, first time poster.
I am shopping for a new system and operating on about a $600 budget (new baby is expensive).
I have built a couple systems and also purchased a system from Dell with good results on both. Dell has a special right now of the following for $399 w/ free shipping:
Dimension E521
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800
Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Basic
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs
HARD DRIVE 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache
OPTICAL DRIVE 16X DVD ROM Drive
VIDEO CARD NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE Integrated Graphics GPU
SOUND Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
I was wondering what you guys thought of that along with dropping these items in it to beef it up:
RAM
Video Card
That's $570 for the system (+/- a few bucks). It would be replacing:
P4 3.2ghz (northwood)
1mb ram
9800 Pro
Viewsonic VX922 (this will carry to new system)
So what do you think?
Worth the money?
Wait until I can afford a Core C2D? (probably months away)
Any changes to the above to make it better? (without adding a lot of cost)
I will be using the system for gaming (EQ2, Oblivion, etc), office, web-browsing, email and other basic uses.
Thanks in advance everyone.
~Jason
I am shopping for a new system and operating on about a $600 budget (new baby is expensive).
I have built a couple systems and also purchased a system from Dell with good results on both. Dell has a special right now of the following for $399 w/ free shipping:
Dimension E521
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800
Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Basic
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs
HARD DRIVE 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache
OPTICAL DRIVE 16X DVD ROM Drive
VIDEO CARD NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE Integrated Graphics GPU
SOUND Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
I was wondering what you guys thought of that along with dropping these items in it to beef it up:
RAM
Video Card
That's $570 for the system (+/- a few bucks). It would be replacing:
P4 3.2ghz (northwood)
1mb ram
9800 Pro
Viewsonic VX922 (this will carry to new system)
So what do you think?
Worth the money?
Wait until I can afford a Core C2D? (probably months away)
Any changes to the above to make it better? (without adding a lot of cost)
I will be using the system for gaming (EQ2, Oblivion, etc), office, web-browsing, email and other basic uses.
Thanks in advance everyone.
~Jason