I bought an XPS

#1 ReverendTed

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 08:16 AM

Yeah, I bought a "gaming computer". Yeah, I bought a Dell.

It's an XPS 630. I'm satisfied with it so far. It came with XP Pro installed and upgrade media for Vista 32bit. All I had to do was ask and they sent me Vista 64. I went ahead and upgraded. Haven't really had any problems with it, though the resources available at my630i.com were invaluable in getting it set up.

Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz (OC'd to 3.2GHz)
4GB DDR2 SDRAM (850MHz)
2x ATI Radeon HD4850 (in Crossfire)
500GB SATA HD
RealTek 7.1 onboard audio, which has worked surprisingly well

Ran me about $1400 altogether, I think.

I also purchased an Acer H213H 21.5" LCD with 1920x1080 native res. It's only got 5ms response time, but I really haven't noticed that being a deficiency.

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#2 Weirdoman

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 09:12 AM

You know I could've built that for you since I'm in your town?

Oh well, send Dell Stephen my regards!

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#3 ReverendTed

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 09:20 AM

Actually, I moved to East Texas (up around Tyler) about a year and a half ago. I could have built it myself, honestly (and maybe cheaper), but I like knowing that they'll send me new hardware if my existing hardware goes kaput. Plus, there's a community of users with nearly the exact configuration that have already worked out most of the kinks.

Thanks retrospectively for the offer, though.

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#4 WIDOWMAKER99

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 01:48 PM

teds rig blows my next build away! :blink:

congrats man .. i remember sending ya a p 3 600 back in the days all ya had was a celeron

looks like ya moved up .. a BUNCH!

and as far as buying dell i gotta say i love my dell laptop ..and i found a deal for a girl @work last month and thru dell got her a dual core 2.66 with a 750 gb harddrive sata burner /o forget what gpu card she has ..but for about $500 .i could not have built one like she got that cheap

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