playallday said:
Hmm... I seem to have found a good price on a computer... What do you think about it?
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Dell Inspiron 518, E2200 (2.2GHZ)
16X DVD+/-RW DRIVE
2GB DDR2 SDRAM AT 800MHZ
320GB SERIAL ATA II,7200 RPM,DIM,M
Dell USB Keyboard and mouse
Vista SP1 HOME PREM
DELL E198WFP Widescreen LCD, 19"
WARRANTY ENDS 10/7/2009
The thing only costs $500 with free shipping.
I'm thinking about buying it and upgrading the RAM (to 4GB) and putting a video card in there. So that'll only cost about $100. And latter I'd upgrade Windows to the 64-Bit so I can upgrade the motherboard to its max 8GB RAM.
afaik home premium cant use 4gb of ram! well at least the 32bit version cannot not use it properly ... you will need the 64bit version!
re your original post you choose expensive parts and components but crap out with an OEM style graphics card and not a retail version where retail is
always the best root for quality cards yet you say you don't want to cheap out on some things .....I would say that for gaming the GRAPHICS card would be a PRIORITY for quality! followed by a good fast processor (with a good quality heat sink and fan/cooler) and RAM with a fast clock speed .... and a HD with a fast spin time with a large cache for fast access times of data!
As above trying to max out the res on a bigger screen will be problematic and give you more headaches than its worth trying to find a suitable resolution that gives speed as well as clarity ....but your going to loose some of that clarity anyhow if you get that card as the HDTV is via an adapter that converts the DVI to HDMI or DVI to VGA rather than direct connection!
#1 Tip too is to read the reviews .....
someone bought that same card and it came D.O.A (Dead on Arrival)
not a great start!
If you ask me your going a tad OVERKILL for specs! 12gb of ram seems a POINTLESS and expensive purchase ....when you look at the recommended specs of most games out there to date don't even use/need that much ram with 4gb being about tops/ample on most games also refer to original comment of 32bit vs 64bit same issues apply if you get the 32bit you can only address 4gb of it!
You need to take a realistic look at what your actually going to use it for if its for gaming then HUGE amounts of ram and a 1gb graphics card DOES NOT INSTANTLY MAKE A BETTER GAMER!
Remember ....If your broadband connection SUX A$$ compared to the guy down the street that's on 50meg ADSL to your 8meg ADSL his ping rate is going to be far quicker than yours and that could be make or break in a death match!
