Does anyone have experience with the insperion 530 quad core system??

jimbo15

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i was looking at this system from dell, i have to keep price in mind, into multitasking , wanna start burning dvds also price is 539 + 35 shipping , ill be new to the whole vista 64 bit thing so figured the 800 number could help out....any thoughts

My Components
PROCESSOR Intel® Core™2 Quad processor Q8200 (4MB L2, 2.33GHz, 1333FSB) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1, 64-Bit edit
OFFICE SOFTWARE No Productivity software pre-installed edit
WARRANTY & SERVICE 1Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis edit
MONITOR No Monitor edit
MEMORY 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz- 4DIMMs edit
HARD DRIVE 500GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™ edit
OPTICAL DRIVE Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW w/ dbl layer write capable edit
VIDEO CARD ATI Radeon HD 3450 256MB supporting HDMI edit
SOUND Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio edit
KEYBOARD & MOUSE Dell USB Keyboard and Dell Optical USB Mouse edit
FLOPPY & MEDIA READER No Floppy Drive Included edit
My Accessories
SPEAKERS No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system) edit
ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE No Security edit
My Service
REMOTE ACCESS Dell Remote Access, free basic service edit
ALSO INCLUDED WITH YOUR SYSTEM
MODEM No Modem Option
Mouse Mouse included with Keyboard purchase
Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 9.0 Multi-Language
Network Interface Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
Labels Windows Vista™ Premium
PHOTO AND MUSIC SOFTWARE No Entertainment software pre-installed
DATASAFE ONLINE BACKUP Dell Online Backup 2GB for 1 year
ESSENTI
 

jimbo15

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i do already have a flat screen monitor and wireless keyboard n mouse, so just need a tower, ive seen reviews for the dual core version simalir. i first saw somthing similar on costcos site for $599 then found this and added dual dvd drives n a video card figured its got to be better then the onboard video card.....so with the 2 xtras brings it to 539$ ive been online for 2 days now (with kids bouncing around me) ive seen some talks about maybe problems with the 64bit thing and my exsisting peripherals but those talks were like a year old....so r there still a lot of problems wit this or shoul i be able to get patchwork to help out?? this quad core has to be better then the duel core right??