compter help kma or any experts

[vinnie]

looking to add another computer is this a good deal or do I need to add or subtract something

thanks vinnie


XPS 400
Date & Time: October 17,2005 9:18 AM CST

SYSTEM COMPONENTS
XPS 400 Qty 1
Pentium? D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB), Microsoft? Windows? XP Media Center 2005 Edition Unit Price $1,799.00
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Module Description Show Details
XPS 400 Pentium? D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB)

Operating System Microsoft? Windows? XP Media Center 2005 Edition

Memory 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 4DIMMs

Keyboard Dell USB Keyboard

Monitors 19 inch Ultrasharp? 1905FP Digital Flat
Panel

Video Cards 256MB PCI Express? x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) nVidia GeForce 6800

Hard Drives 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache?

Floppy Drive and Media Reader 13 in 1 Media Card Reader

Mouse Dell Optical USB Mouse

Network Interface Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet
Modem 56K PCI Data Fax Modem

Adobe Software Adobe? Acrobat? Reader 6.0

CD or DVD Drive Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW w/dbl layer write capability

Sound Card Sound Blaster? Audigy?2 ZS (D) Card w/Dolby 5.1, and IEEE 1394

Speakers Dell 5650 5.1 100 Watt Surround Sound Speaker System with Subwoofer

Office Software (not included in Windows XP) No Productivity Suite - Corel WordPerfect? word processor only

Anti-Virus/Security Suite (Pre-installed) McAfee SecurityCenter with VirusScan, Firewall, Spyware Removal, 15-months

Digitial Music Dell Jukebox PLUS - Rip and burn your CDs faster rint CD labels, and more

Digital Photography Photo Album? SE Basic

Hardware Warranty 1Yr Ltd Warranty, 1Yr At-Home Service, and 1Yr XPS Warranty Support


TOTAL:$1,499.00

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[Palehose]

looking to add another computer is this a good deal or do I need to add or subtract something

thanks vinnie


XPS 400
Date & Time: October 17,2005 9:18 AM CST

SYSTEM COMPONENTS
XPS 400 Qty 1
Pentium? D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB), Microsoft? Windows? XP Media Center 2005 Edition Unit Price $1,799.00
Save $300 on Select Inspiron and Dimension XPS Systems $1499 or more
LIMITED TIME OFFER! Remove Coupon
- $300.00


Module Description Show Details
XPS 400 Pentium? D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB)

Operating System Microsoft? Windows? XP Media Center 2005 Edition

Memory 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 4DIMMs

Keyboard Dell USB Keyboard

Monitors 19 inch Ultrasharp? 1905FP Digital Flat
Panel

Video Cards 256MB PCI Express? x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) nVidia GeForce 6800

Hard Drives 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache?

Floppy Drive and Media Reader 13 in 1 Media Card Reader

Mouse Dell Optical USB Mouse

Network Interface Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet
Modem 56K PCI Data Fax Modem

Adobe Software Adobe? Acrobat? Reader 6.0

CD or DVD Drive Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW w/dbl layer write capability

Sound Card Sound Blaster? Audigy?2 ZS (D) Card w/Dolby 5.1, and IEEE 1394

Speakers Dell 5650 5.1 100 Watt Surround Sound Speaker System with Subwoofer

Office Software (not included in Windows XP) No Productivity Suite - Corel WordPerfect? word processor only

Anti-Virus/Security Suite (Pre-installed) McAfee SecurityCenter with VirusScan, Firewall, Spyware Removal, 15-months

Digitial Music Dell Jukebox PLUS - Rip and burn your CDs faster rint CD labels, and more

Digital Photography Photo Album? SE Basic

Hardware Warranty 1Yr Ltd Warranty, 1Yr At-Home Service, and 1Yr XPS Warranty Support


TOTAL:$1,499.00

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What software do you normally Run ??? If you had to catagorize it under Business or Gaming what would you say you use your PC most for ?

To make up that 2 gig of RAM is it 2 sticks runnning in Dual channel mode or 4 running in Dual channel mode to make a total of 2 gig ?

Nice Machine ...but the Hard Drive will be the bottleneck in that sys ....if you can give up some storage go with the SATA 10,000 RPM Drive at 80gig .

The processor ...Ram ...and Front side buss are screaming for a RAID 0 Array on this PC if the option is available Run 2 Western Digital SATA Raptors 10,000 RPM drives ...The Raid 0 software will treat it like 1 drive that runs at 20,000 rpms.

 

[vinnie]

What software do you normally Run ??? If you had to catagorize it under Business or Gaming what would you say you use your PC most for ? .

gaming
the most use would be for the web , music & picture storage

To make up that 2 gig of RAM is it 2 sticks runnning in Dual channel mode or 4 running in Dual channel mode to make a total of 2 gig ?.

help me choose does not give that info

this is all they ask you

512MB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz - 2DIMMs [subtract $230]

1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs [subtract $160]

2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 4DIMMs [Included in Price]
Great Performance

4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 4DIMMs [add $270 or $9/month2]

Nice Machine ...but the Hard Drive will be the bottleneck in that sys ....if you can give up some storage go with the SATA 10,000 RPM Drive at 80gig .

The processor ...Ram ...and Front side buss are screaming for a RAID 0 Array on this PC if the option is available Run 2 Western Digital SATA Raptors 10,000 RPM drives ...The Raid 0 software will treat it like 1 drive that runs at 20,000 rpms.

only can go up in hard drive 250 gig next on up

thank you for the reply

Do you think it's a good price ?

 

[Palehose]

gaming
the most use would be for the web , music & picture storage



help me choose does not give that info

this is all they ask you

512MB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz - 2DIMMs [subtract $230]

1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs [subtract $160]

2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 4DIMMs [Included in Price]
Great Performance

4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 4DIMMs [add $270 or $9/month2]




only can go up in hard drive 250 gig next on up

thank you for the reply

Do you think it's a good price ?

price is fine ....get the : 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 4DIMMs [Included in Price]
Great Performance

As long as your not a big gamming guy your all set for the type of use you need . Dont bother with my RAID 0 Babble... that Hard Drive as posted originally will be fine .

 

[KMA]

I think it looks like a good deal, you're getting huge RAM and disk, pretty fast CPU Chip (tho not the fastest available) I don't think you really need XP Media Center 2005 over plain old XP pro, but that's your call. Adobe is up to v7.03, but i don't think they'll affect your bottom line cost much..

Good luck with your new PC!!!

 

[vinnie]

Got media center on another pc and really like it.

Sounded like a pretty good deal but always nice to have it confirmed by the experts.

thanks to both of you for the help