Is this a good deal?

l3rian

Pentium4 Processor 2.2GHz
256MB RDRAM
120GB Turbo HD
19" Monitor
GeForce4 Ti 4600
Soundblaster Live
DVD-RW
CD-Rom
Altec Lansing ADA 885 (what are these like?, should I go for Creative Labs 5300 instead?)
56k Modem
Microsoft Windows XP

for €3030 include vat and delivery from Dell?

What is there after sales support like?

thanks for help

Doodee

Well I built a spec near similar.. not as powerfull but well able to do multiple tasks (LEIK Minesweeper and Solitare )
here it is:

Pentium 4 1.6Ghz
512MB SD-Ram
80GB HD
19" Flat Screen Monitor
Geforce 3 Ti200 (sold it and now have Radeon 64DDR)
6Channel Sound
4 x USB and 2 x Firewire
56k V.92 Modem
16 x DVD
Pioneer A03 DVD-r/rw drive (V.Nice)
Windows XP Home

Now - the monitor and the dvd-r/rw drive and the other 256mb ram I added the cost of the machine was £833 Old Irish Excluding VAT (£999 incl)
Monitor Cost me €250
Ram €60
and Pioneer drive was £269 Str which with a Genius Pen+Pad Few blanc DVD-R discs and Delivery came to a total of €550
so total cost wiv VAT in Euro's is:
€2128.47
Now if I sold teh 80GB HD at the time and bought a 120Gb I woulda had to pay an extra €40-80 so.....
The bulk of this machine was bought before December so prices should have gone down..

Ivan

One word : No.
But its Dell, so you pay for the label. These days your much better off building a machine yourself, assuming you can do it. Or get a mate to do it. You'll learn enough building it to provide your own tech support and it will save you a packet.

Ivan

rymus

Doodee, how much did that 19" TFT cost? I've been looking to get my hands on a (suitably priced) 17 or 19 incher but I dont exactly want to remortgage the house...

l3rian

Is this a better deal?

from komplett.ie

AMD athlon XP1900+
PC2700 512MB DDR
Geforce4 Ti4400
DVD 16x/48x
Floppy disk
80GB 7200RPM
Creative Audigy ****is this capable with the Creative inspire 5300?
Asus A7V333, fan, and case, keyboard, mouse

from dabs.co.uk

VM Pro 454 19in
Inspire 5300

including deliver + vat €2255

thanks

Ivan

You havent really been listening have you?

Ivan

steve-hosting36

Heres a price from a local builder - www.encom.ie - Encom = we use them for all our systems and servers and they come highly reocommended, call George there for more:

Venture Range Mini Tower ATX Case 230W PSU
AOpen AK77 Plus A M'board
AMD XP 1900 1.6GHz + Fan
1 x 512Mb DDR RAM
1 x IBM 80Gb 7200RPM ATA 100 HDD
DVD ROM 16 Speed LG
3.5" 1.44Mb Standard Floppy Drive
ATI Radeon 7200 64MB
Iiyama 19" FST VM 1451 (LS902UT)
Logitech Deluxe Keyboard
Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer
2 Year RTB (Countrywide)

EUR 1,530.03 inc VAT, delivery is about €15

HTH,
Steve

Ivan

Keep going...

steve-hosting36

Going where ? ...

Gavin

Originally posted by Ivan
You havent really been listening have you?

Ivan

the komplett stuff is a diy job. Have you been paying attention ?

Gav

Ivan

I was actually referring to the price, nothing else.
There are always lower prices depending on the label your willing to pay for.

Ivan

l3rian

ivan, if there is always lower prices, plz tell me where?

I went for the komplett deal, it is a great system, glad I didn't go for dell now.

www.encom.ie was around the same prize as komplett, but komplett's graphics card clinched it