Computer set up

[mattnxtc]

Was just screwing around on Dell and came up with this set up for pretty cheap. Comments please:

My Components
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6550 (4MB L2 Cache,2.33GHz,1333 FSB)
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
22 inch Samsung 2220WM Widescreen Analog/Digital Black LCD Monitor
4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz- 4DIMMs
500GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
16X DVD+/-RW Drive
256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT-DDR3
Integrated Sound Blaster®Audigy™ HD Software Edition
Dell USB Keyboard and Dell Optical USB Mouse
No Floppy Drive Included
56K PCI Data Fax Modem
My Software & Accessories
No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system)
No Security Subscription (30-day trial)
Microsoft Works 8. DOES NOT INCLUDE MS WORD
My Service
1Yr In-Home Service, Parts + Labor, 24x7 Phone Support
Free 3GB DataSafe Online Backup for 1 Year
6 Months of America Online Membership Included
Also Includes
Mouse included with Keyboard purchase
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 8.1
Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
Windows Vista™ Premium
No Entertainment software pre-installed

[Nemesis69]

This looks pretty good. How much you paying?

Don't you mind Microsoft Office is'nt included? And are you buying this pc to play the newest games? I think the graphics card might be too weak for this..

[mattnxtc]

I was really just fooling around with it on the Dell website. I believe with the monitor the cost was around 1200 or so.

I am more trying to justify the 2k I may need to spend to get the 24in IMac by seeing costs.

I didnt even get into it enough to see that office wasnt on there. Yeah that is an expense I would need to add in. good catch.

I would have to look, but that graphic card may be all that they offer on that model.

I wouldnt be using a computer for video games, but more for poker/daily life

[Nemesis69]

For poker and daily life the graphics card will do just fine.

[Beavis68]

you dont really need office, OpenOffice is fully compatible and is free.

[mattnxtc]

Wold this video card allow for dual monitors? Also hwo big a difference is it to run vista on 3gb of memory at 800hz vs 4gb at 800hz?

[splashpot]

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Wold this video card allow for dual monitors?

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Yes

[Beavis68]

It probably wouldn't make any difference using 3gb vs 4gb. Because of the way Windows handles addressing it cannot address all 4GB of the RAM, about .5 to .8GB are taken up by other things, like the video card memory.

For most applications you will rarely use more than about 1.5GB of RAM at any time. I have noticed my quad core processor using up to 2.5GB multi-tasking and crunching big data sets. The same system with a dual core didn't go above 1.5GB with similar files. Not sure if this a coicedence or not.