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    worldpease's Avatar always annoying
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    Ok some of you might remember I burned my PC a couple of months ago. (find that discusion a couple of threads bellow)
    Well I have bought a new machine, like a month ago, it is an XPS-420 from Dell, yes I made the mistake of getting a Dell,
    but I realized that too late since I had never gotten a retail PC, I always got custom made PCs.
    I guess what happened was I got impressed with it and I was blinded by how awesome it worked.
    -Oh the machine still works like a rabid Beast, it is awesome and damn fast, but for starters I've noticed that it will be a problem when I need to add more hard drives, since I already used the only two available bays for that, and also all the stuff in the case is aranged in extrange ways, so that is what I mean when I say I might have made a mistake, but anyways...-

    the machine is a
    Intel Core 2 Duo E7500, 2933 MHz
    2 GB DDR2-800 DDR2 (and I added the 2 GB I already had)
    NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 (512 MB)
    ATA HDD 320 GB (using my existing 80 GB for system)
    TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223C ATA Device
    it runs very smooth and silent.

    it also has a lot of gimmicks like Bluetooth, Wireless Adapter, front panel ports for many different cards, the main board has an optical out so now I don't have to get a sound card.
    The monitor it came with is pretty nice too, looks awesome and has this integrated HD webcam, two USB ports on the side, and it can be connected via HDMI, VGA and I believe some other kind of cable but I don't remember, I lend that display to my broh since the one I had is still better I think.
    They even gave me a set of 2.1 Logitech LS21 speakers which are very nice since now I can play my music without turning on my home theater.
    it cost me $330 US Dlls.

    It came with Vista installed and out of the box it played my heaviest 720p x264 movie (Avatar ) like charm and the processor barely went above 3% load.

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    clocker's Avatar Shovel Ready
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    Ditch Vista and install Win7...it'll run much better.
    "I am the one who knocks."- Heisenberg

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    worldpease's Avatar always annoying
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    Oh, yes I did install Windows 7, and I didn't actually noticed much improvement,
    then there wasn't much to improve.
    But yeah I can imagine it getting clogged sooner if it was running Vista.
    Last edited by worldpease; 04-29-2011 at 12:42 AM.

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    clocker's Avatar Shovel Ready
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    Quote Originally Posted by worldpease View Post
    Oh, yes I did install Windows 7, and I didn't actually noticed much improvement
    W7 and Vista are practically identical as far as the user is concerned but far different under the hood.

    Do a fresh install of both to see how big an improvement W7 is...it takes about 10 times longer to install and update Vista than 7.
    "I am the one who knocks."- Heisenberg

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    I found Windows 7 to be a huge improvement. You can read all of the articles.

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    Great system

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    The main problem with Dell and other factory-made PCs is that they will nail you if you ever want to upgrade anything in the future. I was amazed to see that a mid-size Dell case did not have any extra 3.5" or 5.25" slots - but that's how Dell operates. Want to add a second hard drive and DVD/BD in the future? Then you must buy *proprietary* brackets from Dell -- that will cost you MORE than buying a complete case (inc. power supply) from your local PC shop.

    A factory built PC might be OK for someone who never plans to ever open the case, but if that's the situation, you might as well buy a mini-compact PC (and save desktop space) rather than a standard-size box.

    But then $330 is a low price for any computer, so you have to expect and accept its faults. The other question is how long will a 300GB hard drive last a P2P/Usenet user before running out of space?

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    I guess I can have a computer with $1500, so I will work hard in the summer.

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    Yea, these days you dont have to be a millionaire to have a really good computer.


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    my old daul core Pentium D died so i thought time for a upgrade and heres my new system i got sent to me for £600 +vat


    CoolerMaster CM 690 II Basic RC692-0
    1 650W CM EXTREME GX 80+ PSU
    1 Intel Core i5 2500K unlocked
    1 MSI P67A-G45 (B3) Rev MoBo
    1 8GB 2x4G CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 XMP
    1 80GB Intel SSDSA2CW080G3K5 O
    1 1TB Seagate ST1000DL002 32MB
    1 SONY BD-5300S-0B BLU-RAY x12
    1 PIONEER DVR-S19LBK x24 DVDRW
    1 1GB SAPP HD6570 11191-00-20G
    1 Heisei HR221 Card Reader USB2 .0

    System running Win7 64Bit with Office 2010 ,,, About to overclock Quad Core running at 3.3 to 4.5 soon so will let you know how it runs but at mo it can do a avi to dvd in nero vision at full settings in 12 minutes compared to old system would take 2/3 hours










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