Well now I will have to add my 2 cent, were I work we have
at least 20 Dells with OS's from 98, ME, XP pro, 2000, Server 2000
and I have not had a issue with any of them. And on a few of
them I have added on to them and none of the conponents
were bought from Dell. They include ram, Harddrives, CD drives
and video cards, all bought from were I wanted to.
To this day no issues with any of these things and they were
all easy to install. I also own to Compaqs one P3 and one
AMD K6 both still running great the K6 is almost 8 yrs old
and has been OC and jacked up as much as I can,
and I can still play a pretty mean game of Quake 3 excessive
on her. Now I have just bought a new Dell 8400 P4 3.4
1 gig ram, 160 gig HD, Nvidia 6800 GTO (pretty much the same as a 6800 GT and can be OC to 6800 Ultra for less money) with a 17 inch flat screen and a crap load of other things that I put together
on there web site. Now I have looked into building my own system, but for what I have into this box it would have cost me
a few hundred dollars more to build my own.
This system out of box with no OC got just over 10,000 when I ran it threw 3DMark03. It also performs better than expected
running Q3, Doom 3 and COD. Runs any of the Adobe CS programs flawlessly. So if you know what you want and how to
order it you can get a sweet machine for your dollars. And not have to build your own.
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