I need another pc for work so I am going to retire my home pc to work and get a shiny new one to play games on etc. at home, so I ordered a new Dell pc last week which which was supposed to be delivered on Thursday. got an email to say that they are not shipping orders with the new Intel Chipsets

I was quite looking forward to trying an i7 powered pc but it looks like it could be April before I get my order. I can get a
Intel® Core 2 Quad Q9500 (2.83GHz, 95W) but this is nowhere near the Intel® Core™ i7-2600 w/VT (3.4GHz, 8MB cache) that I had ordered.

Should I wait for the i7 or go for the quad core? getting a Dell because it's a whole lot cheaper than making my own!

cheers

Mooky

is it really cheaper to get a dell?

i didn't think so when i built mine 12 months ago. it all depends on how much you want to have the "best there is" for about a month before something better comes out. look at what u want it to do and go from there.

u may find some info from benchmarking by serious geeks online, but just because the numbers say its better doesn't mean you'll actually be able to tell...

[Edited on 12/2/11 by mrwibble]

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Originally posted by mookaloid
...getting a Dell because it's a whole lot cheaper than making my own!

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well I was paying £579 plus VAT for the dell i7 with 4 GB RAM - I have my own graphics card and I figured would struggle to buy the rest of the components for that.

if you've got a decent graphics card already I don't see why you'd buy a CPU thats ment to do both jobs ??
so you could save a bit my not going for the LGA1155 thats only just coming out...


so assuming you just need a MB, CPU, RAM and HDD (and maybe a new PSU if you need one)

MB - £80.43

i5 760 quad core 2.8 GHz 8Mb - £147.38

4Gb RAM - £37.87

HDD - well it depends what you fancy - £30 will get you anything up to 500Gb, but you can pay a bit more a huge one or alot more for a really fast one....

PSU - you can easy find a decent one for less than £50 if you need it
(have a look on http://callright.x2tek.co.uk/ he's got loads)

so that could be as little as £350
+£72 if you need a new copy of win7

thats just a 10min search using some of my prefered brands - but I'd bet that setup would leave a bit more room for upgrades/expansion than any dell

[Edited on 12/2/2011 by mcerd1]

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Originally posted by mcerd1
if you've got a decent graphics card already I don't see why you'd buy a CPU thats ment to do both jobs ??

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Firstly I know nowt about the devil's engines, but don't the likes of Dell etc. produce less expensive machines by using inbuilt graphics cards etc. (ie part of the motherboard) so that you can't take them out and up-grade at some point in the future, should you want to.
I had this problem with a 'bargain' that I bought so years ago from PC Casualty in Manchester. just had a motherboard and nothing else inside, no expansion slots etc.

The sandy bridge have a recall...


intel recall !!

just upgraded my motherboard and found out this with gizmag.. arrgh easy fix without having to re-install windows.. few

G.

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Originally posted by mookaloid
well I was paying £579 plus VAT for the dell i7 with 4 GB RAM - I have my own graphics card and I figured would struggle to buy the rest of the components for that.

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ok this is the spec:

having had a look at the links above and done a bit of my own research, I can clearly do better for the money.

I would still like the i7 processor and if I can get one the MB that mcerd1 suggests looks ok. I need a new case and psu but they are quite cheap. with the saved money I might even get a ssd



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