Anyways, I gave in and bought a new cpu. Looks like some truck projects are going to be on hold. Except the SAS and the headers(Thanks JD). Anyways, here's what I got:
1 1 412-0660 DELL MEDIA EXPERIENCE, DIM
1 1 412-0551 MONEY 2004,STD,DIM
1 1 412-0360 SOFT CONTRACTS - BANCTEC
1 1 950-9797 NO WARRANTY,YRS 2/3(DIM,INSP,NBD)
1 1 950-3337 1YR LIMITED WARRANTY
1 1 950-1260 NBD,DIM,BSC,INIT YR,DHS (HIGH)
1 1 412-0701 WORD PERFECT PROD PACK,V12,ENG,DIM
1 1 412-0555 MS ENCLYC 2004,DIM
1 1 420-3224 BROADBAND ICON FOR CONSUMER
1 1 412-0625 DELL/MY WAY HOME PAGE
1 1 412-0585 AOL DHS
1 1 412-0521 DELL PHOTO ALBUM STANDARD
1 1 412-0691 MUSIC MATCH 8.2,BASIC,DIM/INSP
1 1 412-0626 NORTON INTERNET SECURITY 2004,90DAY,DIM
1 1 313-1874 DELL A215 SPEAKERS,SIB,DIM
1 1 313-2758 INTEGRATED AUDIO
1 1 430-0945 DECODING SOFTWARE,DVD,CYBERLINK,DIM
1 1 462-7810 THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING DELL
1 1 313-0917 16X DVD-ROM DRIVE,2200,LTON,DIM
1 1 462-6817 48X MAX CD-RW DRIVE,DIM,2ND BAY
1 1 313-2279 V.92/56K PCI DATAFAX,INT MODEM,DIM,TIED
1 1 430-0412 INTEGRATED,INTEL PRO 100M PCI NIC CARD
1 1 310-1871 DELL 2-BUTTON SCROLL MOUSE,DIM
1 1 412-0688 IMAGE RESTORE, DIM
1 1 412-0409 GENERIC DIMENSION SUPPORT
1 1 420-1921 WIN XP HOME,SP1,ENG,DIM,TIED
1 1 313-7222 DELL APPLICATION BACK-UP CD,FACT
1 1 340-8688 NO FLOPPY DRIVE REQUESTED
1 1 341-0834 80GB 7200 RPM ULTRA ATA,DIM,M
1 1 463-0697 DELL 720 PRINTER DRIVER
1 1 320-2870 INTEGRATED INTEL EXTREME GRAPHICS 2
1 1 320-3818 17IN(16.0IN VIS)E773C MONITOR,MG,DIM,M
1 1 310-1582 DELL QUIETKEY KEYBOARD,104,ENGLISH,TIED
1 1 311-3018 512MB DDR SDRAM AT 333MHZ - 2X256MB,TIED
1 1 221-4368 DIM 4600,P4,2.8GHZ,533,1MB,INT SNDNICVID
PC's in general are crap! Get a Macintosh or build your own PC. You could have put together a CPU 2x's as powerful with 830$ than what you got from Dell. All your paying for is the name.
Macintosh sir is like the Mercedes Benz of computers....you'll never want anything else once you use one.
my friend spent a grand on a dell and it cant even play a DVD for 2 hours ... it freezes up in 1 hour. He called up techie support and made em send out a new motherboard, DVD player, CPU, memory, and hard drive. Guess what?!? yeup, it completly bites the dust after 10mins of being on now. I told him to shove it the box, send it back and Ill build him a pc 10x better
good luck!
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Shelby is right. Chicks dig purple. Buddy of mine has a PURPLE tundra , and he is always gettin compliments from ladies at school on his truck.
Right on Mike! I've had my Dell for almost 3 years now. I've never had a single problem with it. Some of the music software I got with it is crap, but I just use Windows Media Player...soon to be replaced with WinAmp pro for the new MP3 player I bought.
I just bought Dell laptop got it for like $995 they knocked off like 300 bucks of original price, Its nice but my dislikes are the touchpad is not sensitive enough and its kinda slow, I guess im gona have to go to FRY's Electronics and buy some new memory..
Shelbix did yout budy try to instal just the OS cause those dells come with a lot of crap pre installed that you really never use.
If your gonna build your own desktop its only worth it if your gonna go top of the line but if your building average to below average machine your better of buying pre fabbed box with linux and just install XP or w2k.. 2cents
If your gonna just use your pc to write up emails, surf web and maybe watch movies save yourself the money and get the cheap Celeron processor
I personaly like AMD so thats what I got...
AMD 2600+ cpu and FIC mother board..
Setup Im running was used in one of MaximumPC' articles, kinda makes my choice for that combo worthe the money I spent.
Dell generally makes a good, reliable computer. I had mine for about 3 years with no problems. What really annoyed me about it though was the lack of room for expansion. I couldn't update the video card... the only way I could get more memory is from an external hard drive, and there are only two slots for ram.
With that said, I built my own computer 2 monthes ago... and I love it!!
-Asus P4G800-E Deluxe Motherboard
-Pentium 4 3.0Ghz w/ HT
-1Gb of Ram
-Nvidia FX5900 128mb Video Card
This machine flys... Almost as fast as my Tundra!
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Armada 176 AR5s Skis, Look P12 Jib Bindings, Rossignol Bandit B1 Boots, Scott Poles... in the bed of a 2000 V8 Tundra 2x4 Access Cab with:
JBA Titanium Coated Headers, Stone Mountain Racing Y-Pipe, Flowmaster 50 Exhuast, Teamwest Sway-A-Way Coilovers, Camburg Upper Control Arms, Wheeler's Add-A-Leafs, AEM Brute Force Intake, MB Quarts, US Acoustics Amp, Bazooka Tube, Lots of Dynamat, A.R.E. LSII Tonneau Cover, Sir Michaels Rollpan, Bushwacker Flares, Shaved BSM, Billet Grilles, Mickey Thompson Classic Locks, 305/70/16 Pro-Comp X-Terrains, Lots of little things here and there. Future Projects: Color-Coded White Rear Bumper and Tailgate handle, Revalve SAWs, Deaver 11 Leaf Packs, Bilstein 5100 Rear Shocks.
All this info repeated here!
-Asus P4G800-E Deluxe Motherboard
-Pentium 4 3.0Ghz w/ HT
-1Gb of Ram
-Nvidia FX5900 128mb Video Card
This machine flys... Almost as fast as my Tundra!
rxvcgiii what u use your pc for?
Video games right?
rxvcgiii what u use your pc for?
Video games right?
Isn't that obvious? Actually... I don't play video games as much as I used to... just don't have time for it anymore! I do kinda want to play Doom 3 on the highest settings and see how my computer handles it.
My computer also works great for memory hogging programs like Photoshop and AutoCAD... plus the Hyper-Threading comes in handy when I wanna burn a CD and surf Tundrasolutions at the same time!
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Armada 176 AR5s Skis, Look P12 Jib Bindings, Rossignol Bandit B1 Boots, Scott Poles... in the bed of a 2000 V8 Tundra 2x4 Access Cab with:
JBA Titanium Coated Headers, Stone Mountain Racing Y-Pipe, Flowmaster 50 Exhuast, Teamwest Sway-A-Way Coilovers, Camburg Upper Control Arms, Wheeler's Add-A-Leafs, AEM Brute Force Intake, MB Quarts, US Acoustics Amp, Bazooka Tube, Lots of Dynamat, A.R.E. LSII Tonneau Cover, Sir Michaels Rollpan, Bushwacker Flares, Shaved BSM, Billet Grilles, Mickey Thompson Classic Locks, 305/70/16 Pro-Comp X-Terrains, Lots of little things here and there. Future Projects: Color-Coded White Rear Bumper and Tailgate handle, Revalve SAWs, Deaver 11 Leaf Packs, Bilstein 5100 Rear Shocks.
All this info repeated here!
Thats nice! I used to play games too but its to time consuming and when I get home I've been looking at a monitor all day thats the last thing I want to do when I get home!
I didn't want top of the line components just anything better than my archaic(SP?) 400megahertz cpu that I have right now. I'm sure I'll be happy once I get it.
Dude!!! I'm getting a Dell...
I told him to shove it the box, send it back and Ill build him a pc 10x better 
I have a Dell and it's a great computer.
Actually... I don't play video games as much as I used to... just don't have time for it anymore! I do kinda want to play Doom 3 on the highest settings and see how my computer handles it.
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