Opinion Wanted On This Dell PC

Cucullan

I'm looking to buy a new PC and was thinking about a Dell Inspirion 531, I can get this for €1150 or for €700 without the monitor. Its expensive for a monitor but its a 24" with good resolution and input connections. What do you lads think? Its 5 years since I bought a new PC so don't know much about dual core etc and any help is appreciated

Base AMD® Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
Microsoft Operating System Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium - English
Memory 2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]
Keyboard Dell™ Enhanced USB Multimedia Keyboard - UK/Irish (QWERTY)
Monitor Dell™ 24" UltraSharp™ Wide Aspect Digital/Analogue Flat Panel (2407FPW) - UK/Irish
Video Card 256MB nVidia™ GeForce 8600GT graphics card
Hard Drive 320GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst™ cache
Floppy Drives and Additional Storage Devices 19-in-1 Media Card Reader
Mouse Dell Optical Scroll Premium Mouse
Modem No Modem
Optical Devices 16x DVD +/- RW Drive
Sound Cards Integrated 7.1 Channel High Definition Audio
Speakers No Speakers
Standard Warranty 1 Year Base Warranty - Collect & Return
TV Tuner and Remote Control Integrated Hybrid (Analogue/Digital) TV tuner PCIe x1 card and Dell™ remote control

Keano

Cucullan wrote: »

I'm looking to buy a new PC and was thinking about a Dell Inspirion 531, I can get this for €1150 or for €700 without the monitor. Its expensive for a monitor but its a 24" with good resolution and input connections. What do you lads think? Its 5 years since I bought a new PC so don't know much about dual core etc and any help is appreciated

Base AMD® Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
Microsoft Operating System Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium - English
Memory 2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]
Keyboard Dell™ Enhanced USB Multimedia Keyboard - UK/Irish (QWERTY)
Monitor Dell™ 24" UltraSharp™ Wide Aspect Digital/Analogue Flat Panel (2407FPW) - UK/Irish
Video Card 256MB nVidia™ GeForce 8600GT graphics card
Hard Drive 320GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst™ cache
Floppy Drives and Additional Storage Devices 19-in-1 Media Card Reader
Mouse Dell Optical Scroll Premium Mouse
Modem No Modem
Optical Devices 16x DVD +/- RW Drive
Sound Cards Integrated 7.1 Channel High Definition Audio
Speakers No Speakers
Standard Warranty 1 Year Base Warranty - Collect & Return
TV Tuner and Remote Control Integrated Hybrid (Analogue/Digital) TV tuner PCIe x1 card and Dell™ remote control

What are you buying it for? I.E Gaming or just home use?

keen

Looks like a decent PC, waste of money if your only going to be browsing the net and using it as a home PC though.

If you use a lot of high end software/game and need a lot of storage then go for it.

Cucullan

I mainly use my PC for the net, watch films, Photo Shop and Word. I do a good bit of multi tasking like maybe using word, listening to music and be messing in Photo shop and everything can be painfully slow on my PC at the moment. Is Vista as bad as a lot of people are saying? Surely its the OS to buy for future proofing?

Keano

IMO get XP! I dont have Vista but have used other peoples machines with Vista and lets just say it is not for me... No thank you!