Page 1 of Cheap Dell, complete PC package!!!

For your £316.08 you could have the following:-

Processor
Intel® Celeron® Processor 2.40GHz


Operating system
Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition and Microsoft® Works 7.0


Memory
Was 128MB, now 256MB DDR RAM (worth £40 ex vat)


Monitor
17" CRT Colour Monitor (15.9" v.i.s 0.28 dot pitch)


Harddrive
40GB Hard Drive (7200 RPM)

Optical Drive
20/48x Max CD-ROM Drive


Graphic Card
Integrated Intel® Extreme Graphics


Sound Card
Integrated Audio

On-Line Promotion
Free Delivery - worth £49

Dont think thats a bad deal :D


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The Shi*house poet needs a good thrashing, Grafitti ISNT cool.... kiddies!

Would touch a P4 Celeron with a bargepole....

The P4 core is dependent on memory and cache bandwidth. The original P4 core (willamette) was crippled with only 256Kb L2 cache. P4`s only started giving good performance when the Northwood Core with 512Kb L2 cache came out.

The P4 Celeron`s only have 128Kb L2 cache :o

When the 2.0GHz Celeron came out Tom`s Hardware benchmarked it and even when it was overclocked to 3.0GHz it was regularly trounced in the tests by an AMD XP1800+ - not good.

(I`m not anti Intel - I`m using a P4 2.4B@ 2.93 at the moment).

128Mb -> 256Mb RAM worth £40 - I think not. 256Mb DDR costs between £20 and £30.
128Mb is around £12.

Also remember that XP really wants a minimum of 256Mb for itself, so for heavy apps you`d be wanting 384-512Mb

Never been a fan of onboard graphics - slows your system down. a) it steals RAM from the system. b) when it is the graphics is accessing the RAM it is restricting access for the other system components.

They haven`t even supplied a CD writer. To a consumer the difference is only a few quid so to Dell the cost would be next to nothing. Probably shifting old stock.

Not such a good deal really, then is it. A local computer store could probably do something better for the same price. (Okay you get Dell support but Watchdog said it was terrible last week, as is their delivery).

p4 or not p4 that is the question
seems quite a good deal to me but i know very little about computers, thanks for the heads up with the orginal offer the price is great and i have the cdrw to put in,
it would certainly beat my 4 yr old Hp in a fist fight
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Still better than my tired old Celeron 466 with 128 ram, thats what im used to so the above machine would perform like a rocket ;)

It`ll suit some people and not others.


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The Shi*house poet needs a good thrashing, Grafitti ISNT cool.... kiddies!

how much would i benefit if i upgraded from my pentium 3 550mhz - 320mb

Nothing like shooting the original poster down in flames!! ;)

Personally (using a Celeron 600mhz) I think it`s not a bad package, OK it`s not state of the art but for running XP, Office and a few graphics packages (which is what I use mine for) I think it would be a pretty useful machine. AND you get a 17" monitor thrown in for the price so all in all it`s not a bad deal IMHO.

:) :)

Ahh c`mon you`re getting a complete system for not a lot.
You want to play the latest games at the highest resolutions? Don`t bother.
You want a PC that will handle all your word processing, internet and other everyday stuff? Go ahead, I can`t see it getting much cheaper than that.

As for the Celeron, sure it isn`t the fastest chip but it`s gonna do a whole lot better than a P3-550.

how much would i benefit if i upgraded from my pentium 3 550mhz - 320mb

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Nothing like shooting the original poster down in flames!!


Makes me want to post more bargains so people can take the p***. OK its not everybodys cuppa tea, but its cheap and easy on the pocket, not everyone had a truck load of dough to spend on a PC ;)


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The Shi*house poet needs a good thrashing, Grafitti ISNT cool.... kiddies!

Thanks Dusty, this looks like a bargain! The price is excellent for this spec PC.
I am considering getting one for my daughter (9) for homework, school projects, internet (net nanny), etc. However, need to save a bit more dosh first, but this a good deal.
Well done Dusty, keep the bargains coming.