Your thoughts?

[soulslicer]

My dad got a 500 dollar Dell Voucher and he decided to buy a computer from them, since our older one was 3 years old (2.8ghz single, 1gbram, 7800gs, IDE support only, agp only, sd ram only)

So I looked at the dell website and the best deal I had for my budget of 1600 dollars (1100+500) is

Core 2 duo E6500 or something (2.33*2 one...)
2 GB of 667mhz ram
A 256mb geforce 8600 GT
19 inch monitor, some old creative sound card, speakers and subwooder (the usual dell stuff)

Your thoughts? It's definitely better than the previous com and at least I can get to play crysis lol.

Remember, Singapore dollars lol

 

[Raziaar]

Well, I can't really comment but I say very nice on you that you're going to be getting a new computer. I can't wait until I can. The thing I love about the newer technologies like say, PCI Express vs the AGP... and the faster memory vs the slower memories like in my computer, is that the better stuff is actually CHEAPER than the stuff I still have. I just can't believe it's more costly for me when I bought a better graphics card, than one that is better but simply PCI express, or my memory which is more expensive than faster memory I could get with the same money if only I had the motherboard to support it.

 

[Tyguy]

seems like a good deal

 

[Sedako]

Are you good with PCs at all? By that I mean would you be able to build your own if you had the components laid out in front of you? If so, I would actually suggest building it yourself and using the dell voucher for a cheap laptop or nice Dell monitor. You could definitely build a better machine than that for $1100, including mouse, keyboard and speakers.

Edit: I just played around for a couple minutes on Newegg and came up with this:

E6550
Asus 650i SLI mobo
EVGA 8800GT Superclocked
OCZ 700W PSU
2gb OCZ DDR2 800 RAM
250gb Seagate HD
Cooler Master mid-tower case
HT omega sound card
Saitek Eclipse Keyboard
Logitech MX518 mouse

All for just under $1100 after rebates. A far better system than the one you originally listed. This doesn't include a monitor of course, but with that $500 Dell certificate, you could pick up one of these beasts:

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...etail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=320-6095

 

[Asus]

If I had $500 toward a dell product that is what I would do.

 

[soulslicer]

Excuse me. When I say Dollars, I MEAN SINGAPOREAN DOLLARS YOU TUBE. lol. All your posts so far are INVALID.

also, that damn dell deal only supports vista. Is there GPU driver support for vista yet?

 

[Sedako]

Excuse me. When I say Dollars, I MEAN SINGAPOREAN DOLLARS YOU TUBE. lol

Oh, oops. Guess I should have checked your location.

also, that damn dell deal only supports vista. Is there GPU driver support for vista yet?

Yes, both AMD and Nvidia have driver support for Vista.

 

[soulslicer]

Sorry, just another question. Would Crysis run alright with my specs, considering i have vista and not xp.

 

[Sedako]

At this point in time, Crysis actually runs better in XP than in Vista. The 8600 GT is not a very powerful card when compared to the other 8 series cards, as it's pretty much on par with the 7900 GT but with DX10. You will be able to run Crysis on lower settings, but it won't look like anything special.

 

[Acepilotf14]

1 Singapore Dollar = 0.68912 US Dollar

1 US Dollar (USD) = 1.45112 Singapore Dollar (SGD)

 

[DEATHMASTER]

even with that conversion. That's a ripoff.
I'd use it to just get a cheap laptop. Probably not going over $700 total.

 

[TCfromBN]

If you have any computer knowledge, please save yourself the money and build it yourself. They are ripping you off big time there.