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| 264657 | 2004-09-10 07:35:00 | AMD XP 2500 SYSTEM -512MB DDR -80 GB HDD -Radeon 9600Pro 128MB Videocard -5.1 Output Sound and 10/100 Lan -17" Flat Screen Monitor -Mulitmedia Keyboard and Optical Scroll Mouse -52X CD-RW -1.44 Floppy Drive -56K Modem & 300W speaker $999 INC GST and Delivery Wow,No idea how the price like that but definitly a deal. |
metla (154) | ||
| 264658 | 2004-09-10 08:28:00 | Have a look at Ascent there a very good online shop . Up until recently I brought solely from them, i only stopped shoping there as i befriended my local techie and now get better prices locally . I have never had any problems with parts supplied and are alway deleivered promptly . They have a lil online pc builder thingy, that with a lil help for us should make choosing a new PC easy . What sort of shape are your current mouse, keyboard and screen in? If you can use them for your next PC then you can save some cash . For around the $1000 - $1300 mark you should be able to easily build a machine capable of the Sim2 . I've never been to dunedin and have never heard anything good or bad about the retailers down there . My advice would be to get a machine assembled by an online retailers such as Styles or Ascent . Both are very reputable, perhap approach them by email . Tell them your just after the system and not the mouce etc and that you would like your new PC to be capable of playing the Sims2 . Our very own metla is a retailer perhaps he could help you out? |
Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
| 264659 | 2004-09-10 09:24:00 | Sorry Megan, I had the feeling that I had left something out, but it was late and my mind had quit for the night. The processor is a Pentium 4 and runs at 2.4 Ghz. You should have re-read the correspondence above. It has a Windows XP OEM CD as well as 8 other CDs of software, drivers etc. If there is anything else that you would like to know just ask. Vince | Vince (406) | ||
| 264660 | 2004-09-10 10:01:00 | > If you want > to run a campaign on the abolition of recovery disks > fine, I won't argue with that, but you cna't just > write of all Dell PCs based on that. You forgot to use the spell checker Bruce. :D I will reiterate, just so that it is clear to everyone, my Warehouse Dell 4600i came with a Windows XP CD, as well as recovery software on a protected and hidden partition. Vince |
Vince (406) | ||
| 264661 | 2004-09-10 11:20:00 | > Unfortunately many consumers buy PC's off the > shelf and six months later they want to upgrade and > find they have neither the room in the case nor the > motherboard/power supply/DIMM slots to allow this. I > think this is what Metla was referring to. My Warehouse Dell Came with 2 free drive bays, 2 free ram slots, (I added 2 256MB memory cards) and one expansion slot on the Mother Board. I think the analogy with cars might work better with McLaren F1 v Volkswagon beetle. Everyone will acknowledge that the McLaren is the superior car but nobody would drive it to work. ;) Vince |
Vince (406) | ||
| 264662 | 2004-09-10 12:05:00 | > I don't know the specs on the Warehouse > Dell but I assume it comes with integrated graphics . You would Bruce if you had read my posts earlier in this thread . The Warehouse Dell 4600i has a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 graphics card . It also has a Sound Blaster sound card . > That may be OK for the Sims 2 but it may not - > the game isn't out yet to see . But you'd want an AGP > slot on the board to allow you to upgrade graphics > and it is pososble that the budget board used does > not have an AGP slot . I'm not sure if it has an AGP slot, but does have an AGP controller . I haven't slept in about 30 hours and I don't feel like trying to find out right now . > You'd need to check . I'd never > get a PC that didn't offer an expansion slot for > video and they do exist . It does have 1 free expansion slot . Vince |
Vince (406) | ||
| 264663 | 2004-09-10 12:14:00 | >You would Bruce if you had read my posts earlier in this thread. The Warehouse Dell 4600i has a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 graphics card. It also has a Sound Blaster sound card. Yes Vince, this has already been pointed out to me (see above somewhere). Apologies for my poor thread comprehension :8} |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 264664 | 2004-09-10 12:15:00 | Hi Vince What sort of games or graphic applications do you run on your Dell? How have you found the performance? Was the performance drastically improved when you added the extra RAM? How many RAM slots has it got? Thank you for all the help. Megan (who has got the flu :( ) |
Meg_h_nz (6065) | ||
| 264665 | 2004-09-10 12:20:00 | I wouldnt drive a McLaren F1 car anywhere, you would almost get there, then the engine would explode, I admit on it's last outing it did finish the race, somewhere near the front to....... | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 264666 | 2004-09-10 12:22:00 | hell, I would love to drive a maclaren to work, at least the resulting fiery crash would cause huge exposure and ensure a well attended funeral. | metla (154) | ||
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