Nagasama
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hi everyone.
i am looking into buying this system from dell. i think i have done enough research to know it will be a good system for general use as well as games.
i do know also through research that the graphics card sucks, but i will not buy good one from dell, and they won't make me one without this card at least. i will upgrade it to either a geforce 7600gt or an ati x1900 or x1650 in the near future.
i also know i could build my own computer, but at this time i am not inclined to do so.
not too worried about gc because i think the types of games i will play often (rts) will depend on the cpu more.
i know a e6300 conroe will be faster if it is overclocked. i'm not gonna do that, either (at least not for a long while). but the benchmarks i have seen suggest that the 4600+ at stock will perform in the neighborhood of the e6400-e6600, also at stock speeds. the 5000+ a little better than the conroes (listed above) at stock.
anyways...
a few questions...
will ati gc be better choice with the amd cpu?
is it worth another 100 bucks to get the 5000+?
as far as upgrades in the future...does anyone know, will i be able to upgrade the mobo (say if i want to run sli with nvidia, will need another pcie slot)?
will this system supprt ddr2800 ram (wouldn't that be better?)? i think, based on my reading, that the cpu will. just don't know if everything else will work with it. and it's kind of costly (as i'm sure you all know) to buy 2gb of ocz...and doooo! no workie.
Components
PROCESSOR AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 4600+ (am2 socket) nforce 4 chipset
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 edit
MEMORY 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs edit
HARD DRIVE 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™ edit
OPTICAL DRIVE 16x DVD+/-RW Drive edit
MONITOR 20 inch Ultrasharp™ 2007FP Digital Flat Panel edit
VIDEO CARD 256MB NVIDIA Geforce 7300LE TurboCache edit
SOUND Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
total price (incl. shipping) 1109.00 us
any help is appreciated and thanks in advance.
i am looking into buying this system from dell. i think i have done enough research to know it will be a good system for general use as well as games.
i do know also through research that the graphics card sucks, but i will not buy good one from dell, and they won't make me one without this card at least. i will upgrade it to either a geforce 7600gt or an ati x1900 or x1650 in the near future.
i also know i could build my own computer, but at this time i am not inclined to do so.
not too worried about gc because i think the types of games i will play often (rts) will depend on the cpu more.
i know a e6300 conroe will be faster if it is overclocked. i'm not gonna do that, either (at least not for a long while). but the benchmarks i have seen suggest that the 4600+ at stock will perform in the neighborhood of the e6400-e6600, also at stock speeds. the 5000+ a little better than the conroes (listed above) at stock.
anyways...
a few questions...
will ati gc be better choice with the amd cpu?
is it worth another 100 bucks to get the 5000+?
as far as upgrades in the future...does anyone know, will i be able to upgrade the mobo (say if i want to run sli with nvidia, will need another pcie slot)?
will this system supprt ddr2800 ram (wouldn't that be better?)? i think, based on my reading, that the cpu will. just don't know if everything else will work with it. and it's kind of costly (as i'm sure you all know) to buy 2gb of ocz...and doooo! no workie.
Components
PROCESSOR AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 4600+ (am2 socket) nforce 4 chipset
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 edit
MEMORY 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs edit
HARD DRIVE 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™ edit
OPTICAL DRIVE 16x DVD+/-RW Drive edit
MONITOR 20 inch Ultrasharp™ 2007FP Digital Flat Panel edit
VIDEO CARD 256MB NVIDIA Geforce 7300LE TurboCache edit
SOUND Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
total price (incl. shipping) 1109.00 us
any help is appreciated and thanks in advance.