whats the best DELL I can get for $1200.00???????

[skywhr]

title says it all,

 

[Total Refected Power]

I have a Dell P75 with 32 MB EDO RAM, 540 MB harddrive, #9 GXE PCI video card, SB16 and 14 in Viewsonic monitor that I could let slide for say $1100? I'd even through in an external 14.4 modem!!!!

 

[FettsBabe]

Dell's are overrated!!!!!!! Get a really nice HP.

 

[skywhr]

I am fully capable of building my own pc but a friend of mine despite what Ive told him wants a DELL so I am trying to find out what you guys consider a good computer from them for this price?

 

[Total Refected Power]

Dell has a good website. You can configure it to meet the $1200 limit.

 

[KingHam]

I think that you can get a nice coffee mug for that much.

KingHam

 

[Tripleshot]

You can get a fairly decent PC from Dell for that money,but no powerhouse and mundane video,which is crucial for what the future holds. Build a system for your friend.That kind of money,and I can build a killer Thunderbird system,and you can too.

 

[yos]

How bout Here?

 

[RossMAN]

1) With or without a monitor? Does your friend already have a monitor?
2) How do they plan on using their Dell?
3) Do they want a CD-RW or will they add that on lateR?
4) DVD?
5) Would they like the extended 3 year next business day onsite warranty for $99 more (also covers monitor if purchased from Dell with the CPU).
6) Will they be doing any gaming? How much?
Which of these graphics cards will probably suit their needs the best?
32MB NVIDIA TNT2 M64 AGP Graphics Card
32MB DDR ATI Radeon 4X AGP Graphics
NEW 32MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS with MDK2 Action Game
NEW 64 MB DDR NVidia GeForce2 GTS with MDK2 Action Game
NEW 64MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce2 ULTRA GTS w/DVI Graphics w/MDK2

Answer those questions and we can definitely get your friend the best Dell system that $1200 can buy. Unfortunately there's also taxes and shipping they'll have to pay which is probably around $100-$150

 

[fir3wir3]

Rossman obviously works for dell

lol

 

[RossMAN]

Rossman obviously works for dell

should say

Rossman obviously wishes he works for dell

You did notice my sig, right?

 

[fir3wir3]

dell..
bleh

I think the same of all of them though

hp, dell, gateway, compaq,

mircon is decent but they're "Bleh" too

alienware, hyerpsonic, falcon, voodoopc

they're ok but they're too expensive

 

[RossMAN]

Sure I could have probably saved $300 or more building my own machine but the two things I love the most about my $2,000 Dell are:

It's QUIET!
19" FD Trinitron monitor

Go figure.

 

[vi edit]

Dimension® 4100 Mini-Tower: Pentium® lll Processor at 866MHz
System Price $889.00
Promotion Discount ($75.00)
Discounted Price $814.00
Promotion End Date Jan 04, 2001

Memory: 128MB 133MHz SDRAM (1 DIMM)
Floppy Drive: 1.44 MB Diskette Drive
Hard Disk Drive: 20 GB EIDE Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
Video: 16MB ATI Rage 128 Pro
Modem: Conexant V.90/56K DataFax Modem for Windows
Sound Card: SB LIVE! Value Digital Sound Card
DVD Drive: 12X DVD-ROM
Software: Microsoft® Works Suite 2001
Software
Microsoft® Windows® Millennium (Windows Me)
DellZone
Norton Antivirus® 2000
DVD Software
Misc: Microsoft IntelliMouse®
Shipping Material
Getting Started Sheet
QuietKey® Keyboard

Stick a 19" Trinitron in there for $375 and there ya go!

dell refurb

 

[vi edit]

A couple bucks more, but with double the video RAM, a little more HD space, and a NIC

-------------------------

SYSTEM SPECIFICATION
Dimension 4100 (Service Tag No. 2BF7701)
Dimension® 4100 Mini-Tower: Pentium® lll Processor at 866MHz

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

System Price $959.00
Promotion Discount ($100.00)
Discounted Price $859.00
Promotion End Date Jan 04, 2001

Memory: 128MB 133MHz SDRAM (1 DIMM)
Floppy Drive: 1.44 MB Diskette Drive
Hard Disk Drive: 20 GB EIDE Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
Video: 32MB NVIDIA TNT2 M64 AGP Graphics Card
Modem: Conexant V.90/56K DataFax Modem for Windows
Sound Card: SB LIVE! Value Digital Sound Card
Network Interface Card: 3Com® 3C905C PCI (Remote Wake-up) Ethernet Controller
DVD Drive: 12X DVD-ROM
Software: DVD Software
Microsoft® Windows® Millennium (Windows Me)
Microsoft® Works Suite 2001
Software
Norton Antivirus® 2000
Misc: Microsoft IntelliMouse®
Shipping Material
Getting Started Sheet
QuietKey® Keyboard
-----------------------------------------------

Stick on the 19" Trinitron for $375, or the 17" for $275

 

[Rendus]

I -do- work for Dell {Product Specialist/L2) (at the moment. May change tomorrow, though).

Do NOT buy a 4100. 815 based pile of trash (the cheap labor Dell hires to put these things together don't even bother screwing in the hard drive sometimes. Often leave the ATX power connector disconnected. Had 2 BIOS revisions in development, 4 more in the field within 2 months of release. I could go on. I wouldn't be caught dead with a 4100).

Do NOT buy an 8100. Pentium 4, Rambus.

Do NOT buy an XPS B. Pentium 3, Rambus.

That leaves the Dimension LxxxR, which is an integraded piece of crap (810 chipset).

The only system Dell currently sells that I can even remotely recommend is a refurbished XPS T (BX chipset).



<< 1) With or without a monitor? Does your friend already have a monitor?
2) How do they plan on using their Dell?
3) Do they want a CD-RW or will they add that on lateR?
4) DVD? >>



5) Would they like the extended 3 year next business day onsite warranty for $99 more (also covers monitor if purchased from Dell with the CPU).

WRONG.

Dell's onsite warranty only covers internal components. The default 1 year onsite, next 2 years parts only also convers the monitor. We will NOT, EVER, send a tech out to simply plug in the monitor.

6) Will they be doing any gaming? How much?
Which of these graphics cards will probably suit their needs the best?
32MB NVIDIA TNT2 M64 AGP Graphics Card
32MB DDR ATI Radeon 4X AGP Graphics
NEW 32MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS with MDK2 Action Game
NEW 64 MB DDR NVidia GeForce2 GTS with MDK2 Action Game
NEW 64MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce2 ULTRA GTS w/DVI Graphics w/MDK2

I'm sure you'll come out far cheaper if you go with the M64 (if you ask, you can get an ATI Rage 128) and buy the GeForce or Radeon 3rd party. Dell won't support it, though.

 

[SSP]

Dell's are overrated!!!!!!! Get a really nice HP

Haha... Dell/HP/IBM/Comcrap is on my sh!t list. Well, if I have to choose, I'd pick dell, cause they don't have a proprietary design like the rest. Still, I hate them all!

 

[Rendus]

SYSTEM SPECIFICATION
Dimension 4100 (Service Tag No. --edit-)
Dimension® 4100 Mini-Tower: Pentium® lll Processor at 866MHz



Heh. That was a valid service tag. May want to edit it out...

-edit- Nevermind, didn't catch you were pasting the specs for a refurb. Heh. That one was returned simply because the customer wanted a different OS.




<< Haha... Dell/HP/IBM/Comcrap is on my sh!t list. Well, if I have to choose, I'd pick
dell, cause they don't have a proprietary design like the rest. Still, I hate them all! >>



Dell may be the lesser of the evils listed, but they're still pretty properietary.

 

[vi edit]

We might have a winner here....



SYSTEM SPECIFICATION
Dimension XPS/T (Service Tag No. 2ECQ3)
Dell Dimension® XPS T800r MiniTower: Intel® Pentium® III Processor at 800MHz, w/256KB Advanced Transfer L2 Cache

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

System Price $934.00
Promotion Discount ($75.00)
Discounted Price $859.00
Promotion End Date Jan 04, 2001

Memory: 128MB SDRAM (1 DIMM)
Floppy Drive: 1.44 MB Diskette Drive
Hard Disk Drive: 40 GB EIDE Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
Video: 32 MB NVIDIA geFORCE AGP Graphics Card
Modem: Conexant V.90/56K Telephony Modem for Windows
Sound Card: Turtle Beach Montego II A3D? 320V Sound Card
CD ROM Drive: 48X Max Variable CD-ROM Drive
Software: DellZone
Norton Antivirus® 2000
Microsoft® Windows® 98 Second Edition
Software
Software
Microsoft® Works Suite 2001
Misc: Getting Started Sheet
Microsoft IntelliMouse®
Mouse Pad
QuietKey® Keyboard
Shipping Material
ATA 66 Controller Card

 

[SSP]

Rendus, how so?

 

[Rendus]

SYSTEM SPECIFICATION
Dimension XPS/T (Service Tag No. 2ECQ3)
Dell Dimension® XPS T800r MiniTower: Intel® Pentium® III Processor at 800MHz, w/256KB Advanced Transfer L2 Cache


Yes, this would be my recommendation The T series was probably the least problematic of any.

 

[Rendus]

<< Rendus, how so? >>



Rather custom power supplies (has a 3.3V connector to the motherboard as well as the standard ATX). Nonstandard power supplies on some systems (8100 specifically. But at least that's a 330 watt, compared to the 200 in even the 1GHz P3 machines, or the 145W in the LxxxR), have some interesting release mechanisms (PS blocks parts of the motherboard, have to move it out of the way). Control panel (reset/power/HDD LED/power LED) is nonstandard, one bundle of 16-20 wires in a 2xwhatever connector instead of seperate connections for each (can't replace with a normal MB from what I can tell). That's all I can think of at the moment, but there's more. Some funny things that just make you say &quot;What the hell?&quot;.

 

[SSP]

?What the hell? indeed. I had no idea about those little differences. Thanks for the info... this gives me another reason to hate Dell.

 

[skywhr]

1) With or without a monitor? Does your friend already have a monitor?
HE NEEDS A MONITOR

2) How do they plan on using their Dell?
GAMING/INTERNET/PERSONAL OFFICE

3) Do they want a CD-RW or will they add that on lateR?
THEY WOULD PROBABLY LIKE ONE BUT DVD WOULD BE PREFERABLE

4) DVD?
WOULD BE NICE

5) Would they like the extended 3 year next business day onsite warranty for $99 more (also covers monitor if purchased from Dell with the CPU).
THE 1 YEAR SHOULD BE FINE

6) Will they be doing any gaming? How much?
Which of these graphics cards will probably suit their needs the best?
32MB NVIDIA TNT2 M64 AGP Graphics Card
32MB DDR ATI Radeon 4X AGP Graphics
NEW 32MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS with MDK2 Action Game
NEW 64 MB DDR NVidia GeForce2 GTS with MDK2 Action Game
NEW 64MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce2 ULTRA GTS w/DVI Graphics w/MDK2

THE 32MB GTS WILL DO FINE FOR HIS NEEDS

 

[ElFenix]

the floppy drive doesn't work in other systems, from what i can tell. thats the only other thing i've encountered with my dells. makes it really annoying when you want to upgrade, can't use case, ps, or floppy with another motherboard. other than that seems pretty standard. when my geforce's fan started acting up i got a new board (much better overclocker, btw) in a couple of days.

what do you know about the 3800's death scream problem?