quattroman777 Posted July 5, 2008 Report Share Posted July 5, 2008 New pc time. Looking for advice on this dell xps 630. Monitor, graphics card etc. PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Quad-Core Processor Q6600 (2.40Ghz, 1066MHz FSB, 8MB cache) HARDWARE SUPPORT 4Yr XPS Premium Warranty Support - Priority Call In and Onsite Support MONITOR 24in E248WFP WIDESCREEN UK/Irish Black (1920 x 1200) TCO99 DVI-D MEMORY 4096MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [4x1024] HARD DRIVE 640 GB Serial ATA non Raid (7200 Rpm) GRAPHICS CARD Dual Crossfire TM 512 MB ATI Radeon 3870 HD TV TUNER TV Tuner (analog/digital) with Remote Control OPTICAL DRIVE 16X DVD+/-RW (Read/Write DVD, CD) KEYBOARD Dell™ Enhanced USB Multimedia Keyboard - UK/Irish (QWERTY) MOUSE Dell Optical Scroll Premium Mouse SOUND SOFTWARE SoundBlaster™ XFI™ Xtreme Gamer Card Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colly Posted July 5, 2008 Report Share Posted July 5, 2008 Nice spec! I always downgrade the warranty on Dells to 1yr collect & return option as it saves £££'s.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1MAC Posted July 5, 2008 Report Share Posted July 5, 2008 Nice spec!I always downgrade the warranty on Dells to 1yr collect & return option as it saves £££'s.. Wouldn't bother with any great length of warranty either. I can just about understand yr 2 (if it's cheap) but beyond that, the PC will most likely be so out of date that it won't cost much to replace with something same/better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobK Posted July 5, 2008 Report Share Posted July 5, 2008 Might be worth waiting to see if they change the HD3870's for the new HD4850 or HD4870 which are meant to be just awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorburn Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 Might be worth waiting to see if they change the HD3870's for the new HD4850 or HD4870 which are meant to be just awesome. Agreed, I'd avoid CrossFire configurations and go for a single 4870. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mollox Posted July 21, 2008 Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 I'm getting old and confused with processors these days.... What's better? - Intel Core 2 Quad Core Q6600 (2.40Ghz) or - Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 (3.16Ghz) I'm guessing its the latter (?) but I really have no idea any more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted July 21, 2008 Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 I think it's the Quad core jobbie. 4 as opposed to 2 'cores' as such. 4 times the processing power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mollox Posted July 21, 2008 Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 Quattroman, can I ask - are you looking at the Dell Outlet or are you considering boxfresh from Dell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quattroman777 Posted July 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 Quattroman, can I ask - are you looking at the Dell Outlet or are you considering boxfresh from Dell? Thanks for the replies guys. Boxfresh, I came up with that spec via the website. I have a budget of around €2k inc vat and want the most up to date components I can get, especially motherboards, graphics cards which I know sod all about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chav Posted July 21, 2008 Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 I'd recommend these bits.... (not sure if you want to build your own, but plenty of companies allow you to specify exact bits. and a few chaps on ebay will build to your spec for about 60 quid build charge) Q6600 (no point buying better really as so easy to overclock. over 3ghz your bottleneck will be ram/disks etc) Arctic cooling freezer pro 7 (great cpu cooler. no thermal compound required) Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R. (great board. there is no faster motherboard that you'd notice. lock mem to speed of your ram and change bus to 333 for 3ghz Q6600. easy peasy. solid as a rock. takes DDR2 or DDR3. DDR3 will not give you a speed gain though) Corsair 1066 dominator RAM or 800 XMS2. 2GB or 4GB. MOBI 3000 or 7500 64GB SSD. (The fastest solid state disk bar a hyperdrive which is out of budget. use this as system disk. MOBI 3000 is much cheaper and gives 95% of the performance) Any old SATAII 7200RPM disk as data drive. (they are all the same speed. Velociraptor is a teeny bit quicker but not much) Coolermaster IGREEN PSU 600W+ (very efficient. will reduce your electric costs. Big PSUs dont cost more money to run, and dells come with crap PSUs) Any old DVD drive (liteon are traditionally best) Any NVIDIA 8800GT+ card or 9800GX2. Forget crossfire. Forget SLI. Total cost including case and XP/vista should be around £1200. Even if you spend 3K on a dell H20 system, it will be slower in usage than the above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorburn Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Any NVIDIA 8800GT+ card or 9800GX2.Forget crossfire. Forget SLI. 9800GX2 is SLI, and it's dire, but yes forget CrossFire or SLI. Get a single 4850 or 4870 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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