Dell Vostro 220 mini tower E7300/2GB/250GB/22" LCD $410

[Zap]

Expires 01/21/09

Dell Vostro 220

$409 plus shipping and tax

Core 2 Duo E7300
Vista Home Basic
22" widescreen E2209WFP or E228WFP (your choice)
2GB DDR2-800
DVDRW
250GB SATA 7200RPM HDD
USB keyboard, USB optical wheel mouse

Possibly decent upsells:
Dell USB Multimedia Keyboard $30 (I actually think this is a great keyboard!!!)
Windows Vista Home Premium $29 (adds Aero interface and Media Center)
Dell 22" widescreen 2208WFP UltraSharp $40 (UltraSharp is their higher end line)
Dual drives DVDROM + DVDRW $10 (just $10 for a SATA DVD-ROM drive)

Shipping to me (53144) was $29

Sheesh, if it wasn't for the shipping and tax, I'd buy one just for the heck of it. This is a pretty hot deal on the mini tower Vostro 220. It is NOT the slim tower, so it can take normal sized PCI Express video cards.

Motherboard uses G45 chipset and has an x16 PCI Express slot. Motherboard only has two RAM slots. Quick/easy video card upgrade is a Radeon 4670 or GeForce 9500 GT. It does not have a PCI Express power plug, so you'll either have to use adaptors or swap the power supply (standard ATX) for more powerful video cards.

With a BSEL mod you can overclock the E7300 CPU to 3.33GHz. Not guaranteed to be stable w/o a voltage mod as well, but it is a possibility.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Zap
Dell USB Multimedia Keyboard $30 (I actually think this is a great keyboard!!!)

Agreed! Love mine.

If this thing had 4 dimm's, I'd be all over it. Good deal nonetheless.

 

[tbogstad]

Total is $462.00 shipped for me.

thats pretty much exactly what i can build the same system for with no OS, and no keyboard and mouse.

Thats pretty good, most of these Dell deals i think are not worth it, but if you need a stock system, ready to go as is, or with a $50 to $100 upgrade to make a nice low end gameing rig this would be a pretty good system to consider.

Only reason i am kinda hard on Dell is the leaky caps fiasco that they told most home users too bad so sad you Computer died at 1.5 "1 year warranty means 1 year" years old because of leaky caps.

And corporate customers who had thousands of computers with leaky caps they fixed, because they did not want to lose large business customers.

 

[Havoc13]

Originally posted by: Zap
It does not have a PCI Express power plug, so you'll either have to use adaptors

Thinking about pulling the trigger, could anyone point me to one of these adaptors?

 

[mshan]

http://www.svc.com/pcie-power-adapters.html

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Havoc13

Originally posted by: Zap
It does not have a PCI Express power plug, so you'll either have to use adaptors

Thinking about pulling the trigger, could anyone point me to one of these adaptors?

Actually it doesn't matter, because if you want to use a video card that requires a 6pin power connector, you need a whole new PSU.

 

[Havoc13]

Originally posted by: bamacre

Originally posted by: Havoc13

Originally posted by: Zap
It does not have a PCI Express power plug, so you'll either have to use adaptors

Thinking about pulling the trigger, could anyone point me to one of these adaptors?

Actually it doesn't matter, because if you want to use a video card that requires a 6pin power connector, you need a whole new PSU.

I'll give it a shot, my 8400 psu has been running my X1950 just fine. From what I understand they are underrated for the power they provide.


Thanks for the linky mshan!

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Havoc13
I'll give it a shot, my 8400 psu has been running my X1950 just fine. From what I understand they are underrated for the power they provide.

The Dimension 8400 is a high-end model, two 12V rails IIRC. Totally different case here.

The question isn't so much overall wattage, but the available amperage on the 12V rails where the video card draws power.

There probably isn't even any 4pin molex connectors for use of an adapter, either.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: bamacre
There probably isn't even any 4pin molex connectors for use of an adapter, either.

There are no molex. However, there are SATA which can be converted to molex, which can be converted to PCIe. Messy, but it has been known to work with these Vostro PSUs.

 

[Chadder007]

Dang....that was a good deal.