My new Dell - XPS 730x

[jamessss]

What do you guys think of it?

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Item Specification

Core i7 965 Extreme 3.2Ghz Processor[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]2 x Nvidia GTX 285 Graphics Cards (Dual Graphics Cards in SLI)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]6 GB Memory (3 x 2GB)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]2 TB Hard Drive (2 x 1TB in raid)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]1 x Blu-Ray RW + 1 x DVD RW (2 Optical Drives)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Killer NIC (Gaming Network Card)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Creative X-Fi Titanium Sound Card[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Media Card Reader with Bluetooth[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]AlienFX Lighting System[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]H2C Water Cooling[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Windows Vista x64[/FONT]

 

[Hazuki]

You missed a spec, how much it cost? :P

 

[elohelMeight]

Indeed, all looks nice. Depends on the price though.

 

[jamessss]

Cost me a fortune it did ;x

although the speed makes up for it

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/p...p-xps-730x?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&ref=dthp

 

[JealY]

Last specification lets it down, otherwise, nice.

 

[daneo1989]

You paying monthly or straight out? give it couple months it would be out of date

 

[jamessss]

Pay outright, it's like anything though isnt it. Cars, mobile phones - technology progresses, it's nice to have a computer that for me will last a couple of years.

 

[elohelMeight]

James has got it spot on. No matter what or when you buy anything electronic pretty much, it's going to be 'out-dated' within no time.

 

[Mezoko]

My laptop: (Dell XPS M1730, it hasn't actually arrived yet because I ordered it a few days ago :P)

Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T8300 (2.40 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 3 MB L2 cache)

Vista 64

Dual SLI™ 512MB nVidia® GeForce™ 9800GT graphics card

4096MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x2048]

320GB Free Fall Sensor (7200RPM) Hard Drive


My Desktop PC (Kinda crappy):

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 2.6Ghz

500gb Hard Drive (5400rpm I think)

4gb RAM

nVidia GeForce 9400GT 512mb Graphics Card

Vista 64

PC was about £300, purchased last christmas, and the Laptop was about £1,500, purchased last week.

You can never buy the latest technology. Well you can have the latest technology for like 1 month max, then some Jap makes a model which blows yours out of the water. Just buy ones which you feel are gonna last a long time :P

 

[Shabalabalong]

Very nice computer you got there but a price tag to go along with it!

Gj. Could've built that for a hell of a lot cheaper though.

 

[shorty606]

I don't mean to be rude, but find a mate who can build computers. I built mine which is slightly higher spec than that. It didn't have 2 TB but it had same cpu, 8gb DDR3 ram, 4Gb graphics for 900 quid. I always build my own, you know what you're getting then.
It's a nice PC that just think it's a bit overpriced.

 

[elohelMeight]

Any PC will be over priced compared to the same stat PC if you built it yourself, that's fact. I'm sure he's well aware of this, not everybody's gonna know someone who can just build a PC.

 

[Mezoko]

Yeah that's a problem for me, I need to learn to build my own pc lol. A lot of money is going to be wasted unless I can do it myself =z

 

[transporter]

What do you guys think of it?

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Item Specification

Core i7 965 Extreme 3.2Ghz Processor[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]2 x Nvidia GTX 285 Graphics Cards (Dual Graphics Cards in SLI)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]6 GB Memory (3 x 2GB)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]2 TB Hard Drive (2 x 1TB in raid)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]1 x Blu-Ray RW + 1 x DVD RW (2 Optical Drives)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Killer NIC (Gaming Network Card)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Creative X-Fi Titanium Sound Card[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Media Card Reader with Bluetooth[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]AlienFX Lighting System[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]H2C Water Cooling[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Windows Vista x64[/FONT]

It`s very nice, still think it`s over priced though.

 

[RedDragonX]

Could of built it yourself for way cheaper.

 

[Shabalabalong]

Any PC will be over priced compared to the same stat PC if you built it yourself, that's fact. I'm sure he's well aware of this, not everybody's gonna know someone who can just build a PC.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-PC-Dummies-Mark-Chambers/dp/0764542478

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[lewis]

building a pc is easier than you think, unless you start adding water colling etc.

 

[RedDragonX]

building a pc is easier than you think, unless you start adding water colling etc.

This. It's like 90% self explanatory, the only thing I got ''stuck'' on my first try were the Front Panel connecters.

 

[Kaori]

What's the purpose of this machine?

 

[Far]

building a pc is simple, but buying the right components to get good performance is tricky unless you know what you're doing