Dude, I'm getting a dell...upgrade

[RegFee]

Well, I'm living in New York, and all of my family is back home in AZ. They wanted to know what to get me for christmas, so I had to think real hard, since I'm going to be moving soon and don't want any extra weight.

I was doing some deep thought, while learning visual basic express on windows media player with vbexpress open, doing a bulk whois check on several thousand names with domain name analyzer, and searching a huge droplist for ovt w/ext with a bulk checker, and my computer was going slow.

I realized the 1gig of ram just wasn't cutting it any more, so I let them know, and now I have another gig on the way.

Nothing like an early christmas present. I wonder if it will get here before thanksgiving!

 

[kjmz]

I've never had a Dell, how are they? I heard that you can't really upgrade them unless you buy the parts directly from Dell, is that true?

I just built my own computer and it worked out fine, to be honest I can't believe it did lol

 

[RegFee]

Dell's working fine for me. Only bad thing was no system restore disk, something I liked about the piece of crap HP I had. Haven't ever upgraded except for now, and I'm getting dell memory, so maybe that's true.

 

[kjmz]

Dell's working fine for me. Only bad thing was no system restore disk, something I liked about the piece of crap HP I had. Haven't ever upgraded except for now, and I'm getting dell memory, so maybe that's true.

I don't think it's the memory but I know sometimes you can't have certain CD-ROM's because the case won't fit the drive and other things like that. Just making it harder for you to upgrade by yourself.

 

[ThreeD]

I read in an "upgrade review" that Dell PC's are the most expensive PC's to upgrade on the market. They are over 100% more expensive than ANY other brand out there, including IBM, HP, Fujitsu Siemens, Aces and Asus. This was about 6 months ago though, not sure if Dell has reduced their price policy since then

 

[vip-ip]

My last upgrade was from 512MB ram to 1GB, and the last piece 'a' Dell I bought was my Ultrasharp 19" 1905FP for $285 (800:1 contrast ratio is awesome for my web-designing venture)

I read in an "upgrade review" that Dell PC's are the most expensive PC's to upgrade on the market. They are over 100% more expensive than ANY other brand out there, including IBM, HP, Fujitsu Siemens, Aces and Asus. This was about 6 months ago though, not sure if Dell has reduced their price policy since then

I disagree on that, I tried looking for components online, trying to beat Dell on prices, I checked everything out from pricegrabber to eBay and couldn't beat Dell by more than $20....... so they're pretty good, if their support team is what they promise it to be, the $20 con be counted as "assembly fee" :tu:

 

[ThreeD]

I disagree on that, I tried looking for components online, trying to beat Dell on prices, I checked everything out from pricegrabber to eBay and couldn't beat Dell by more than $20....... so they're pretty good, if their support team is what they promise it to be, the $20 con be counted as "assembly fee" :tu:

I guess if that's the case Dell has changed their price policy quite a bit in the last 6 months! That being said, I just read the article, I never compared any of the prices myself.

Thanks for the info and correction Vip

 

[RegFee]

holy cow... 1 gig sure does make a difference. The internet is going faster, windows loaded quicker, even my typing seems quicker

 

[yeppers]

holy cow... 1 gig sure does make a difference. The internet is going faster, windows loaded quicker, even my typing seems quicker

lol, 1GB of memory is more than enough to handle your web designing, a game and a few other things at the same time lol, thats what I do.

IMO you just need to disable a few start up programs, do a defrag or even format the baby and install what you want again (unless you've got too much stuff that you couldnt be bothered).

btw how much did the ram cost?

I had my PC custom made for about $1100 USD, and it purs like a kitten.
3ghz pentium4 600 series (64 bit), 1gb ram, 320gb hdd, dvd burner, 17"lcd (turned out i couldve gotten a 19" for same price grrr), nvidia 6600td, 7.1 sound, and another 2.1 sound card, flopy, and all the rest of it.

Runs prety much any game you want, quake 4, doom 3. IMO custom made is the cheaper, and better way to go... BUT thats my opinion, and I think Dell PC's are reliable at least. Im sure you have reason for getting a Dell over something else.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[vip-ip]

Mine was custom built by me and my dad about a year and a half ago, since upgraded twice.... initial was Intel Celeron 2.8, 512MB ram, Radeon 9200 video, basic sound card, and a 17" CRT monitor I found at the dumpster. Then I got a Dell 19" at their sale, and I recently installed a TV tuner card to watch TV on my PC (that, added to a 512MB ram upgrade, total 1GB now) HAHA

 

[yeppers]

Mine was custom built by me and my dad about a year and a half ago, since upgraded twice.... initial was Intel Celeron 2.8, 512MB ram, Radeon 9200 video, basic sound card, and a 17" CRT monitor I found at the dumpster.

Damn, lol i wish people would throw away decent computers like that here lol

 

[vip-ip]

Damn, lol i wish people would throw away decent computers like that here lol

No, I just found the monitor there :tu: Couple of scratches, but not much done to it otherwise. My mom has it now =) The PC was ordered by parts, mostly from Newegg

 

[Scott]

The extra RAM does help.
I started with 512MB and now I'm at 4GB.... :p

 

[RegFee]

The extra RAM does help.
I started with 512MB and now I'm at 4GB.... :p

Jeeze...
maybe one day.
But by the time I would be willing to put that much extra money into my computer, I'm probably just gonna want to buy a new one.

 

[ThreeD]

I started with 512MB and now I'm at 4GB.... :p

Do I even dare to ask what you need 4 GB of ram for?

The only time I could see it come to use is if you work with massive movie clips, megalarge gfx documents or other multimedia related work! Is that what you're doing?

 

[RegFee]

I started with 512MB and now I'm at 4GB.... :p

Do I even dare to ask what you need 4 GB of ram for?

The only time I could see it come to use is if you work with massive movie clips, megalarge gfx documents or other multimedia related work! Is that what you're doing?

Maybe sorting 10 droplists at once while watching his favorite Dvd and playing a MMORPG.

 

[ThreeD]

Maybe sorting 10 droplists at once while watching his favorite Dvd and playing a MMORPG.

Right, I forgot Scott was an addict