Dell E520 €620 (Great bargain)

Irishpimpdude

Ok this is still available for 2 days

Core 2 Duo Processor E6300
Memory Dual Channel 1024MB (2x512) 533MHz DDR2
Hard Drive 160GB Serial ATA 7200Rpm
FP/BL - UK/Irish Wide Flat Panel E207WFP 20" (TCO99) Value (DVI-D) Black
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3000 Integrated
Audio Integrated HDA 7.1 Dolby Digital
English Windows Vista Home Basic

Upgrade to a e6300
Change the hardware support to 1yr
and for company put in AIB

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?b=&c=ie&cs=ieepp1&kc=D4XENT02&l=en&oc=D03E06a&rbc=D03E06a&s=dhs&sbc=iedhsftdppdesktop2

Irishpimpdude

Yea i just bought an ati 1950 pro off komplett and a 500gig sata... no point in upgrading on the dell website they only got the 7300 and the x1300

unklerosco

Its only an extra €28 to get home premium...

Irishpimpdude

unklerosco wrote:

Its only an extra €28 to get home premium...

Is it really that much better? im gonna be installing xp for a while anyways till i get another gig of ram

unklerosco

Over the basic, yes.... Differences Below. Easily worth an extra €28

Vista Home Basic:
The bare bones product. Don't even bother - you won't get much of a difference over XP. £175 Full version, £90 Upgrade.

Vista Home Premium:
This is the version most people will end up with. It includes Media Center support, as well as HDTV support, DVD authoring software and better hardware support, such as for SideShow displays and touch screens. £210 Full version, £140 Upgrade.

Vista Ultimate Edition:
This is the big daddy version, which has everything that Vista has to offer. You get all the hardware support, Media Center, as well as extra games and such. You can get software to use full-motion video as a desktop background. BitLocker encryption is included, as well as WinSAT, which claims to be a game performance tweaker. £350 Full version, £230 Upgrade.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/choose.mspx

Irishpimpdude

Ill eventually get the ultimate but im gonna stick to xp for a few months prob

Clanc

Do Dell not allow you to remove the monitor?

David Michael

Clanc wrote:

Do Dell not allow you to remove the monitor?

Upgrade to the 20in Wide aspect ultra sharp for 146.29 euro???.... That is pretty much a bargain! Well worth the extra!

jimmy2shoes

if you are looking to upgrade to the x1950pro graphics card, please make sure the power supply with this unit can handle it. i believe you need at least 450 watt supply for that graphics card. don't want to fry your system!!

Irishpimpdude

jimmy2shoes wrote:

if you are looking to upgrade to the x1950pro graphics card, please make sure the power supply with this unit can handle it. i believe you need at least 450 watt supply for that graphics card. don't want to fry your system!!

hope it can handle it lol

jimmy2shoes

Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmy2shoes
if you are looking to upgrade to the x1950pro graphics card, please make sure the power supply with this unit can handle it. i believe you need at least 450 watt supply for that graphics card. don't want to fry your system!!
hope it can handle it lol
Today 23:35

just done some digging as am thinking of building my own system but this looked liked a bargain and i have more ram already to throw in it and a great dvd drive. the power supply of this system is 305 watt. now i have also read that the graphics card will work in systems with 300-400 watt. hopefully i'm right. please post on here if it doesn't as then i won't get the x1950 which i'm looking to get. and condolances if is doesn't!!

Irishpimpdude

jimmy2shoes wrote:

just done some digging as am thinking of building my own system but this looked liked a bargain and i have more ram already to throw in it and a great dvd drive. the power supply of this system is 305 watt. now i have also read that the graphics card will work in systems with 300-400 watt. hopefully i'm right. please post on here if it doesn't as then i won't get the x1950 which i'm looking to get. and condolances if is doesn't!!

Ok ill let ya know how it goes should work as ive heard dell have really good powersupplys and if it doesnt look like ill have to get a new psu

TerrorFirmer

E520 comes with 305w psu so you'd be cutting it fairly fine! It will work but hardly guaranteed stable...

kaizersoze

jimmy2shoes wrote:

just done some digging as am thinking of building my own system but this looked liked a bargain and i have more ram already to throw in it and a great dvd drive. the power supply of this system is 305 watt. now i have also read that the graphics card will work in systems with 300-400 watt. hopefully i'm right. please post on here if it doesn't as then i won't get the x1950 which i'm looking to get. and condolances if is doesn't!!

Be aware that the E520 doesn't have any IDE connectors. It's SATA only.

Smoggy

"and for company put in AIB" - Where do I do that and what does it do for me ?

craichoe

Smoggy wrote:

"and for company put in AIB" - Where do I do that and what does it do for me ?

You get some kind of discount i believe, I recon you could stick in any sort of initials

Sharp

With the restrictions of PSU on this machine. Could someone recommended a

Graphics card for it around the €150 mark.


A 7600GT or a 6800 GT? Will both work on this system?

Irishpimpdude

Is anyone intrested in a part exchange for the HIS Radeon X1950PRO 256MB it wont fit

TerrorFirmer

Sharp wrote:

With the restrictions of PSU on this machine. Could someone recommended a

Graphics card for it around the €150 mark.


A 7600GT or a 6800 GT? Will both work on this system?

7600GT will work, 6800 needs an extra power connector so it while it would work it'd be safer to just go for the 7600GT. 7600GT is better and probably cheaper new anyway.

Other relatively decent card that'd work fine would be the X1650XT or if you wanted to save money, the 7600GS or X1650Pro which are only about 100 each.

Shame about the X1950Pro Irishdude....I just read on another thread that the E520 only has two ram slots as well.....maybe not such a good ideal to have considered the e520 as a gaming machine.

Irishpimpdude

HavoK wrote:

7600GT will work, 6800 needs an extra power connector so it while it would work it'd be safer to just go for the 7600GT. 7600GT is better and probably cheaper new anyway.

Other relatively decent card that'd work fine would be the X1650XT or if you wanted to save money, the 7600GS or X1650Pro which are only about 100 each.

Shame about the X1950Pro Irishdude....I just read on another thread that the E520 only has two ram slots as well.....maybe not such a good ideal to have considered the e520 as a gaming machine.

i know man i need some gfx that fit lol im sick as a dog

TerrorFirmer

Why don't you just take the X800gt from your current machine? Assuming the point of buying the E520 was to upgrade to a newer dual core machine.....

Or is it agp...

How much space is in the case? The X1950pro is a pretty big card (which model did you get actually, mine is the HIS iceq one, its huge) but anything like a 7600gt is alot smaller and should fit and is still a pretty good card.

Irishpimpdude

HavoK wrote:

Why don't you just take the X800gt from your current machine? Assuming the point of buying the E520 was to upgrade to a newer dual core machine.....

Or is it agp...

How much space is in the case? The X1950pro is a pretty big card (which model did you get actually, mine is the HIS iceq one, its huge) but anything like a 7600gt is alot smaller and should fit and is still a pretty good card.

This machine is sold.... haha and yea its the same card as yours and btw it has 4 ram slots

TerrorFirmer

Well, Wizzard is selling an X800 on adverts for 70 euro....could do worse and it's not a bad card at all even now. I used to have one, doesn't need any extra power from psu, small fan, fairly quiet....

Would komplett take the card back? Selling it for cost price gonna prove pretty difficult...

Irishpimpdude

HavoK wrote:

Well, Wizzard is selling an X800 on adverts for 70 euro....could do worse and it's not a bad card at all even now. I used to have one, doesn't need any extra power from psu, small fan, fairly quiet....

Would komplett take the card back? Selling it for cost price gonna prove pretty difficult...

Yea but if someone wants the card its going to save them delivery cost and they could have it today... i also have the invoice to prove i got it today,nothing in the box has been touched except the card and it was only out of the packaging for 1 minute until i realized it didn't fit

heggie

have this same machine, and it works great on games with a 7600 gt (i upgraded).

Irishpimpdude

heggie wrote:

have this same machine, and it works great on games with a 7600 gt (i upgraded).

K thanks for the info ill prob go for something along those lines...