Quick intel question

suppafly

Whats the difference between the intel® Viiv™ Core™ 2 Duo E6600 and Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 . Just looking around on the dell site. Going to be getting a new pc. They so was just wondering what the difference was. they both cost the same on the dell site.

mathias

Absolutely none ,

Intel Viiv is a platform , not a processor , Viiv is meant to be a description of a PC and Chipset that works for home entertainment or a HTPC , the processor involved can be any core 2 duo or whatever processor Intel have approved for the platform.

So , like Centrino ,Viiv is a description of the platform not the processor. In your case , both PC,s have the same processor, a core2duo E6600

Here are the requirements for a PC that is entitled to have the Viiv brand ,

http://www.intel.com/products/viiv/requirements.htm

suppafly

So its like a brand of quality then. I suppose i'll go for that one so. Thanks for the quick and informative response.

Also actually one more question.. About monitors. Does anyone know is it worth it to pay the extra €121 for Dell™ 20" UltraSharp™ Wide Aspect Digital/Analogue Flat Panel (2007FPW) over the standard Dell™ 20" Black Wide Flat Panel (E207WFP) monitor??

zilog_jones

From what I can see the E207WFP has all the important features of the 2007FPW but with a faster response time. I dunno how they compare visually though.

mathias

There is a major difference in those panels ,

The E207WFP is a TN type panel , ok for everyday stuff , not so good for colour accuracy and any kind of Photography or publishing work . Fast response time so probably good for games.

The 2007FPW on the other hand , is an S-IPS panel , generally considered the absolute best quality for photo work and any kind of publishing due to its larger bit depth , slower response time though , but really , for games anything better than 16ms is probably good enough.

In terms of photo work , the S-IPS panel is way better and definitely worth the extra money. If that type of thing is not your concern , then go for the TN panel and save the money.

suppafly

So this is the setup that that i'm going to go for. I think its a fairly decent price. anyone have suggestions on things to change?

Dell 9200 €1,198.95 (€1,366 incl vat)

PROCESSOR Intel® Viiv™ Core™ 2 Duo E6600 Processor (2.4GHz,1066MHz,4MB cache)

OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium

MONITOR Dell™ 20" UltraSharp™ Wide Aspect Digital/Analogue Flat Panel (2007FPW)

MEMORY 2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]

HARD DRIVE 320GB Serial ATA RAID 0 Stripe [2x160GB 7200rpm drives with DataBurst™ cache]

GRAPHICS CARD 256MB nVidia™ GeForce 8600GTS graphics card

OPTICAL DRIVE 16x DVD+/-RW & 16x DVD Drives

KEYBOARD Logitech™ Cordless Desktop™ MX3000 Laser (incl Mouse)

SPEAKERS Dell™ A525 Speakers with Subwoofer

Sound Card Sound Blaster® X-Fi Xtreme Music PCI Soundcard

DemonOfTheFall

That's quite a nice system, can't fault it really.

Do you have an option to take the 2 x 160GB drives not in RAID 0 though ? RAID 0 doubles your chances of losing all your data. IF one of the two drives dies, you lose everything!