Gaming Performance and XPS

hairball

Anyonebought any 'gaming' PCs from Dell, a la XPS 600.....and,if so, arethey worth the money, (and probably) the hassle???

jesus_thats_gre

There is nothing wrong with them as such. They are relatively competitively priced as well.. You could do far better building a machine yourself, both cost and performance wise.

tman

erm... the whole idea of buying a dell is to avoid the hassle of building a pc with far superior specs for the same money... is taking it out of the box and plugging it in a lot of hassle for you?
i'm sure they'd be great for games. you'd be better off building your own though.

The Troll

I had a 1st generation XPS bought last october. Fantastic perfomance. Greta for LAN and net games. Upgraded to an Alienware last month.

hairball

I meant Hassle with Dell customer 'support'
Troll,what Alienwaredid you go for??

blahblah06

Hair ive got the aw 7700 lappy its brilliant highly recomend

jesus_thats_gre

hairball wrote:

I meant Hassle with Dell customer 'support'
Troll,what Alienwaredid you go for??

Speaking to anyone in any customer care job is hassle to be honest.. Dell XPS support are actually quite good..

I have their Inspiron XPS2 Laptop (recently renamed to the XPS M170) and its a great performer. Had a problem with it randomly hanging in games and after a number of tech call outs to replace components, I got a brand new one.. It was hassle but the outcome was pretty positive..

hairball

hmmm.....think it IS time to go with a self build , which leads me to my next question, good parts suppliers...ppl still using komplett or Jes??

Mac daddy

hairball wrote:

ppl still using komplett or Jes??

Not using Jes anymore they have stopped taking bank transfers from Irl

I use either Komplett - Overclockers to get most of my parts these days.

jozi

Mac daddy wrote:

Not using Jes anymore they have stopped taking bank transfers from Irl

I use either Komplett - Overclockers to get most of my parts these days.

I wonder why they stopped the hasle i had with them....

Komplett and Overclockers mainlly. Overclockers shipping is costlly thou

Jozi

IceHawk

I just built a PC using parts from Komplett. It came in four shipments and there were absolutely no problems with shipping or anything. Very competitively priced too. I bought an XPS Gen 4 a couple of months ago off Dell and I have to say I was impressed with the build quality. No problems with it yet, so can't comment on customer support, but I would say that you seem to be paying about E500 just for the letters XPS and the cooling system, whereas a good case and a couple of fans wouldn't cost more than E150

hairball

well I've just ordered my case (lian li PC65b) and Power Supply (Hiper HKU 580 WATT).. now all I gotta do is afford the rest