I have to spend 1500$ at dell.com

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22nd-November-2003, 02:49
jerome187

I have to spend 1500$ at dell.com

Hey all

I have to spend 1500$ (and not a penny more) at dell.com

What should I get?

I allready have a pretty nice PC, a 17 inch LCD, nice speakers, etc, etc.

I suppose I could use a new hard drive, another LCD (my GFX card supports 2 monitors), maybe a projecter, or should I buy a new computer and rape it for parts and sell the carkass on ebay?

I might do that, I could use a faster CPU (mines a P4 2.6Ghz 533Mhz FSB) and 2 more 256MB sticks of 400Mhz ram, and a big SATA hard drive.

Anyone have any suggestions?

EDIT: Or should I try to get a dual Zeon system? :) I can almost get a dual 2.4 GHz Zeon system down to 1500$
22nd-November-2003, 03:29
jerome187

Sweet!!

I got a dual 2.8Ghz Zeon system down to 1400$!!!

Should I get that and take the mobo and CPUs?
22nd-November-2003, 04:09
johnny blaze

Uh, sure. Whatever floats your boat. (:
22nd-November-2003, 05:53
jerome187

Well, I've been doing some comapiring here, and I have basically 2 options:

#1 Buy a "normal" desktop computer and take the 3GHz 800Mhz FSB P4, 2x 256MB 400Mhz ram, 120GB SATA hard drive, and have 450$ left over, enuff to buy another 17inch LCD.

#2 Buy a server class machine and take the dual 2.8Ghz Zeon CPUs, motherboard, 36GB U360 SCSI drive, and one 256MB 200Mhz ram.

If I did #1 I would end up with 3Ghz P4, 1GB 400MHz ram, 120GB SATA drive, dual 17 inch LCD monitors.

If I did #2 I woud end up with dual 2.8GHz 533FSB Zeons, 768MB 200MHz Ram, dual Zeon mobo with intergrated U360 SCSI support, 36GB SCSI drive.

I'm pretty sure the dual Zeons will smoke the P4 even with slower RAM and FSB, but then I dont get another 17 inch LCD.

Akkk, I cant decide, what do you guys think?
22nd-November-2003, 10:02
RoseDragon83L

Does it HAVE to be a full computer? I mean really your computer is fast enough right now that spending $1500 just for some minor internal upgrades would be a complete waste of money. Computer components like that fade out and get cheaper fast, especially now with the athlon64 out. If you have a fast computer already spend the money on things that have a longer lifetime.
Get stuff like that second monitor, dvd burner, digital camera, another harddrive, a stick of a gig of memory if you want to upgrade a little. I'm sure you'd enjoy that stuff more than to spend $1500 and end up with a computer that's a little faster than what you already have.

also I havn't kept up with things all too much lately so is this just another surge of people thinking dual processor machines are going to be really fast for a home user and make thier computers twice as fast, or did they start making more games and aps that would actually use that setup. Seems more are mentioning them, maybe someone can clear that up for me.
22nd-November-2003, 21:34
Lord Riff Raff

If your going for a server grade computer remember that Opterons are cheaper and thrash Dual Xeons 3.2ghz.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...6_9014,00.html

I personally would save my cash for another 6 months or so. (Though you could buy a copy of PyroDVD; see link below)
23rd-November-2003, 01:16
jerome187

I would buy Opertons or a AMD64FX, but dell dosent sell them.

I got a credit line at dell, so I have to spend it there.
23rd-November-2003, 02:05
Rekuja

Bye one of those things that goes over ur screen. It prevents your eyes from hurting :) .
23rd-November-2003, 02:09
jerome187

:p Those are ghey, unless you have CRTs, but I have LCDs.

I think i'm gonna get a projector and a 17 inch LCD, that comes to 1450$
23rd-November-2003, 02:49
jerome187

I got the 899$ projector, a Sony 17 inch LCD, and a Logitech wireless mouse

Total: 1494.97$

Cant wait for that projector!!!!
23rd-November-2003, 14:49
RoseDragon83L

*wets his pants* projector?
I didn't know they had cheaper projectors out like that. Did it come with a screen too or is that seperate? You have got to take a picture or something when you get that setup, I gotta see how it looks when it's stretched out.
Do you know what resolution and refresh rate it can go up to? Although I won't be able to get one for quite a while I'm interested.
23rd-November-2003, 22:54
jerome187

It can only do 800x600, but its HDTV ready and all that good stuff!! No screen included, but I have a white wall that'll work just as good!

Dont worry I'll take pics of it, I gotta show it off somewhere :)

Now I can finally play mairo life size!!! yippie!
24th-November-2003, 05:27
Lord Riff Raff

So no chance of you buying PyroDVD then? *sniff* ;)
24th-November-2003, 05:28
jerome187

not unless you have a linux version! :)
24th-November-2003, 11:09
trelimb

Quote:

Originally posted by MyStiC
Bye one of those things that goes over ur screen. It prevents your eyes from hurting :) .

What are you talking about? Is there actually something made just for that?
24th-November-2003, 11:23
torpedo009

Quote:

Originally posted by trelimb
What are you talking about? Is there actually something made just for that?

Yep, its called a glare screen or something, it blocks out (so called) harmful waves from the monitor...
24th-November-2003, 11:55
Zuljin

Quote:

Originally posted by torpedo009
Yep, its called a glare screen or something, it blocks out (so called) harmful waves from the monitor...

thats just bulls*it imo.....
the "harmful" waves of a computer monitor can hardly even be called harmful.
hell cell phones give off atleast over twice as much...."harmful waves"....
24th-November-2003, 14:44
torpedo009

Quote:

Originally posted by Zuljin
thats just bulls*it imo.....
the "harmful" waves of a computer monitor can hardly even be called harmful.
hell cell phones give off atleast over twice as much...."harmful waves"....

Aye, thats what i think too, good thing my parents don't know how about it or they'd force me to buy one :rolleyes:
24th-November-2003, 20:03
trelimb

Quote:

Originally posted by torpedo009
Yep, its called a glare screen or something, it blocks out (so called) harmful waves from the monitor...

lol, so this is actually an add on devise that you put over your monitor so it's waves don't hurt you?? That's one of the most stupid things I have ever heard. My monitor has antistatic and antiglare but the glare it's talking about is glare from other lights in the room reflecting on the screen so you can't see what you are looking at. harmful waves lol.. What will they come up with next? .... wait..... incoming transmission.

hey, we are silly product manufacturor co. and we just came up with something you've got to have!!!
customer: what is it?
Anouncer: It's our new speaker enhancer that stops you from going deaf!!!
customer: how does it work?
Anouncer: Well I'm glad you asked, you drape it over your speakers to block the sound wavs from injuring you!!
customer: but wouldn't that stop you from hearing it?
anouncer: We like to say it protects you! It's so hi tech you can use it on your monitor to stop you from eye fatigue as well.
customer: how does it do that?
anouncer: it blocks all light from reaching you to make sure it's getting the light that makes your eyes tired.
customer: It sounds like a blanket to me.
anouncer: hahaha that's funny that you would equate our new invention with a blanket. haha well we're out of time. order now while supplies last. operators are standing by!!!
26th-November-2003, 00:59
violineb

well actually I have a screen glare protector. And I personally like it a lot. Of course it all depends on the person. It pretty much makes the screen less "bright" even if the colors are the same. Somewhat useful. Don't dis something just because it's useless to you. :p But of course LCD screen is better anyway :)
3rd-December-2003, 11:07
neogeomad

I used to have an anti - glare screen...but it was for my 286 :|