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If you can claim the VAT back, then this will cost £900 total from dell :thumbs: Ordered one due to my laptop taking an hour to stitch a few jpegs in photoshop.

SYSTEM COMPONENTS


XPS 420 Premium E8500
Core 2 Duo Processor (3.16GHz, 6MB, 1333MH
Windows Vista®

4GB 800MHZ RAM

24" Wide Flat Panel (Free Upgrade)
768MB nVidia® GeForce® 8800 GTX graphics card

1TB Dual Hard Drive Non RAID (2x500GB - 7200rpm)

19-in-1 Bluetooth Media Card Reader

DVD +/- RW Drive (read/write CD & DVD)

Integrated HDA 7.1 Dolby Digital Audio

TV Tuner and Remote Control

TV Tuner and AVIO / Accellerator


Can't wait, my PC at work is pretty decent and runs photoshop quick as hell. Its stats are about a third of the above!!! My two PC's at home are absolutely pants when photo editing. Both are single core P4 3.4 Ghz with 2GB+ each, I would have thought good enough, but apparently not.

Gary.
 
Looks like one beast of a set up Gary ... :eek: ... good gear is Dell imhgo ... :thumbs:





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Even with the Vat that's a good deal. a very good deal.

It's good to see that you can get 1TB of Hard drive without them wanting to Raid 0 the drive. No back up that way.

Wonder what a dual Quad would cost? ( Big files, very big files)
 
Which Vista will it be using....32bit will only allow 3gig of your memory!!
 
I'm looking at a VERY similar system from Dell, just a smaller Hard Drive 500GB and a different Graphics Card, but with the 24" Ultra Sharp, I don't think is worth building my own.

About the memory, if I remember correct Dell want £100 to upgrade to
4GB 800MHZ RAM, yet you could buy that amount for £60 from scan, so would a little cheaper going that way.

Vista will allow 3.5GB I think, so may as well get 4GB
 
Having had a very raw and recent row with Dell about their customer service I just hope nothing goes wrong with it. Details here if you want them. I'm not at all impressed with their customer service when I got a faulty laptop.
 
The 4GB isn't a massive issue, I subscribe to MSDN so have access to 64bit Vista Ultimate if need be, which apparently unlocks all the ram. You can also enable the 4GB manually in Vista 32bit, which forces the memory to be treated as if in a 64bit machine.

Have bought from Dell several times in the past, no problems to date, touch wood!!

Gary.
 
having worked in IT for 12 years, never bought a dell but had many a support call from customers who are using dell equipment that isnt doing what it should i have adopted the well known acronym for dell ... dont ever last long .. i would be embarassed to call what you describe as 'customer' 'service'
 
I am sorry to be raining on your parade, but the best deals from Dell are for their Vostro line. You can get 2.4gig Quad core CPU in a system with 3 gig of ram (add the extra yourself as it is really cheap), no monitor for about £500.

Also you should note that most of the monitors that dell sells with systems are 6 bit TN panels, and not 8 bit IPS or PVA panels, which is a big deal if your main reason for buying the computer is to do photo editing.
 
Chappers said:
It's good to see that you can get 1TB of Hard drive without them wanting to Raid 0 the drive. No back up that way.
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RAID 0 is purely performance based anyway, it provides no back up benefits at all.
 
4Gb on a VistaHP, now that would be funny

Why don't you just go for the 8800GT 512MB?? seems to be pretty hot at the mo

Tony

EDIT:

Get XP 64bit :thumbs: that does see 4Gb :thumbs:
 
I've just ordered a Dell from their outlet store. They had a special offer on last week where you saved £60 plus got free P+P. In all saved about £400 off the price of it without a scratch on it. Spec is nothing like that one but will be worlds apart from the steam powered PC I run at the moment.
 
FranchiseJuan said:
I am sorry to be raining on your parade, but the best deals from Dell are for their Vostro line. You can get 2.4gig Quad core CPU in a system with 3 gig of ram (add the extra yourself as it is really cheap), no monitor for about £500.

Also you should note that most of the monitors that dell sells with systems are 6 bit TN panels, and not 8 bit IPS or PVA panels, which is a big deal if your main reason for buying the computer is to do photo editing.
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Just had a look and the Vostro line is the bottom of the range it would appear, and I have bought several from that category from Dell over the years for my business, all of them end up being binned after a year or two - very slow when it boils down to it. No room for expansion on the models I bought either.

G.
 
Could get it cheaper if built yourself.

Vista 32bit does see 4gig ram, it just reserves part for the addressing / hardware space.

I think you are better off with the E8500 as nothing will use the quad core properly so you would end up in effect with a 2.4ghz dual core instead of a 3.16 dual core
 
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