Spec Check Dell Inspiron 530 Desktop

[Tenacious A]

Buying a new desktop set-up for poker and noticed Dell's $350 coupon on Inspirons over $1000, so I thought I'd give it a shot. PC will mainly be used for full time 12 tabling on Stars. I'm planning to buy the Samsung 245BW, 24" widescreen LCD monitor as well (is this PC okay to run that monitor?). I'm used to 12 tabling on a 15.1" laptop, so I figure one 24" monitor will be fine for now. I plan to play about 150k hands per month and run Pokertracker, PAHUD, and a couple of AHK scripts while I play. Let me know if the specs look okay. I've been running Avast anti-virus on my laptop and it's fine...can't decide if I need to get McAfee or just stick with Avast. Thanks.

Dell Inspiron 530 Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6550 (4MB L2 Cache,2.33GHz,1333 FSB)

Operating System Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium

Memory 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs

Hard Drives 320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™

Optical Drive 16X DVD+/-RW Drive

Video Cards 128MB NVIDIA GeForce 8300GS

Sound Cards Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio

Keyboard and Mouse Bundles Dell USB Keyboard and Dell Optical USB Mouse

Modem & Wireless 56K PCI Data Fax Modem

Optional Ports None

Speakers Dell A225 2.0 Speakers

Office Productivity Software (Pre-Installed) Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007

[Josem]

it'll suffice.

[mattnxtc]

No sure what your paying for that, but take a look at my thread with specs.

I "think" its a better deal and you can get it with a 22in monitor for about $1150.