If the time ever came when you felt you absolutely HAD to change out the motherboard, just change out the power supply at the same time. I'll say this again because I think it got missed the first couple times....
THE ONLY THING "PROPRIETARY" ABOUT DELL IS THE POWER PLUG ON THE MOTHERBOARD AND THE POWER SUPPLY OUTPUT PLUG GOING INTO THE MOBO.
The cases are ***EASY*** to get into and out of, by far the easiest I've ever owned! A button on top and bottom, press and it butterflies open giving you supremely easy access to everything with LOTS of room to move around. It's a good design - anyone who tells you otherwise has simply never owned one, or never actually opened it up.
The old Dell machine in the P2-P3 era were the same old boring, straight ATX tower most people on here use - you certainly wouldn't call THAT proprietary either. The new design is purely ATX and will take a different motherboard and a different power supply with NO hassles at all with the SINGLE exception of if you want to use DELL motherboard with 3rd party Power Supply or vice-versa. And that'll STILL work if you just use a cheap adapter plug. You WILL NOT need to replace the Dell power supply. Sure it may not be 752.8 Watts of output but you WILL NOT NEED IT either... Users have been able to load up their machines to the hilt with NO issues. You can BUY it right from Dell loaded with Radeon 9800 Pro's, twin big/fast hard drives, twin optical drives and more... You really think the PS will be a problem? Not a chance.
Anyone who says "Dell sucks" simply has never spent time with one.
It it a better deal than building yourself? Quite possibly, yes.
If you already have a LEGAL OS and all the software you want, RAM and/or HDD... well then you're only doing a partial upgrade and don't need a whole system do you? Balance how much it'll cost to get all your parts from NewEgg, the time it'll take to put them together, the time spent FIXING any issues that happen, RMA costs for failed products, shipping for returns, etc... all of a sudden Dell looks all the more attractive. It's all covered, all from one place. Once the machine is paid for, that's it. No more nasty surprises.
THE ONLY THING "PROPRIETARY" ABOUT DELL IS THE POWER PLUG ON THE MOTHERBOARD AND THE POWER SUPPLY OUTPUT PLUG GOING INTO THE MOBO.
The cases are ***EASY*** to get into and out of, by far the easiest I've ever owned! A button on top and bottom, press and it butterflies open giving you supremely easy access to everything with LOTS of room to move around. It's a good design - anyone who tells you otherwise has simply never owned one, or never actually opened it up.
The old Dell machine in the P2-P3 era were the same old boring, straight ATX tower most people on here use - you certainly wouldn't call THAT proprietary either. The new design is purely ATX and will take a different motherboard and a different power supply with NO hassles at all with the SINGLE exception of if you want to use DELL motherboard with 3rd party Power Supply or vice-versa. And that'll STILL work if you just use a cheap adapter plug. You WILL NOT need to replace the Dell power supply. Sure it may not be 752.8 Watts of output but you WILL NOT NEED IT either... Users have been able to load up their machines to the hilt with NO issues. You can BUY it right from Dell loaded with Radeon 9800 Pro's, twin big/fast hard drives, twin optical drives and more... You really think the PS will be a problem? Not a chance.
Anyone who says "Dell sucks" simply has never spent time with one.
It it a better deal than building yourself? Quite possibly, yes.
If you already have a LEGAL OS and all the software you want, RAM and/or HDD... well then you're only doing a partial upgrade and don't need a whole system do you?
Balance how much it'll cost to get all your parts from NewEgg, the time it'll take to put them together, the time spent FIXING any issues that happen, RMA costs for failed products, shipping for returns, etc... all of a sudden Dell looks all the more attractive. It's all covered, all from one place. Once the machine is paid for, that's it. No more nasty surprises.
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