Dell Question

[Johnny7185]

I am thinking about gettin a Dell Dimension 8300. I was going to build my own rig but i decided i dont have the time to build a good one. Tell me what you think about this computer. For $1,000 i will get:

P4 3 ghz with hyper threading technology
A Gig of pc2700 ram
80 gig hd at 7200 rpm
8x dvd-rw
17 crt monitor
wireless keyboard/optical mouse
GeForce FX 5200 (will replace with my 5700 ultra)

How will this rig perform? Seems like a good deal to me... what u think?

 

[InlineFive]

That's pretty good except the PC2700 will seriously bottleneck your "C" processor. It will only provide 2.7GB/s of the optimal 6.4GB/s with Dual-Channel PC3200 memory.

-Por

 

[ElFenix]

buy ram from elsewhere, dell makes a killing on it

 

[Johnny7185]

I just looked it over and the ram is 3200, thanks

 

[dexvx]

Check hot deals.

Dell Small Business has a high end system deal. Dimension 8300 P4 3ghz, 1gb of DDR, 80GB disk space, 128MB DDR GeForce FX 5200 graphic card with TV-Out and DVI, CDRW, NIC, mouse, and keyboard. - $650


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Originally posted by: PorBleemo
That's pretty good except the PC2700 will seriously bottleneck your "C" processor. It will only provide 2.7GB/s of the optimal 6.4GB/s with Dual-Channel PC3200 memory.

Dual Channel PC2700 is 5.4GB/sec