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Originally Posted by Lasereth
I would get the Dell and then buy an 8800 GT from NewEgg for a little over $100.
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Newegg.ca hasn't launched yet. The best I can see so far is CDN$130 for a PNY XLR8 GeForce 8800 GT. That's at Tiger Direct, but I might find something cheaper in Computer Alley in Toronto.
Update:
Here's what I'm eying-up right now:
Dell Vostro 410
- Intel® Core™2 Quad Proc Q6600 (2.40GHz,2X4M L2Cache,1066FSB)
- Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic SP1
- 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz - 2DIMMs
- 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
- 1 Year Basic Limited Warranty and 1 Year NBD Onsite Service
- Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
- 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GT
- Single Drive: 16X (DVD+/-RW) Burner Drive, Roxio Creator™ 16XDVDR
- No Monitor
CDN$779 (save $370) + tax + free shipping
I think this looks like a great deal, especially coming from Dell. What do you guys think? Please get to me soon, because my finger is on the trigger on this one.
This is one of the few models from Dell that offered an 8800 GT upgrade option, and the quad core was standard. It's also one of the few models that currently has as much at $370 knocked off the price!
Personally I'd rather pay the extra $180 to have the 8800 GT come loaded than have to go through the hassle of finding one as low as $120 and then go through the worry and hassle of installing it myself. A $50 hassle-avoidance/installation charge is fine by me. That is, if I found a card that cheap in the Toronto marketplace. I'm fine with that.
Does this look good, or am I just jonesing after my first new gaming PC since 2005? (And my first multi-core game machine, and my first PCI-E graphics card, etc., etc.)
EDIT: I should also note that the Vostro uses the Intel G33 motherboard. Is this a consideration as well? I'm not sure about the differences between motherboards when it comes to gaming.