View Full Version : Diminsion 4550 Dell w/LCD 15" free for $649.00 and free
BobyJo
10-19-2002, 01:20 AM
www.rage3d.com
This is on thier headline. Expires 10/23/2002. Gives step by step instructions to pruchase this system. Incl Intel P4 2.53x533 cpu, 128mb pc 333 memory, 60g hd, 40x12x40 cdrw, and more.
This price is basic, you can get the Ti4200 vid card and other options for very little $$$. Free shipping on top of all this.
This is a great deal
I'm not an Intel guy but this is a super deal. Can't be beat.
eviltechie
10-19-2002, 01:23 AM
woh
this is a super deal!
Omega
10-20-2002, 05:55 PM
Wow, that is nice. Now if only I could remember where I set that $649 down...
BobyJo
10-20-2002, 08:09 PM
Yea, seems as though both of us have a lapse in memory at persent.
Grinnin Reaper
10-21-2002, 08:35 PM
I couldn't help myself. Thank goodness they finance. I'll just have to pay it off early.
Pentium® 4 Processor at 2.40GHz with 533MHz system bus/ 512K L2 Cache Qty: 1 Unit Price: 999.00
Memory FREE Upgrade! 256MB DDR SDRAM at 333MHz
Keyboard Dell® Quietkey® Keyboard
Monitors FREE UPGRADE! 15 in (15.0 in viewable) E151FP Flat Panel Display
Video Cards New 64MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce4™ Ti 4200 Graphics Card with TV Out and DVI
Hard Drive 60GB Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive
Floppy Drive 3.5 in Floppy Drive
Operating System Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional
Mouse Dell® 2-button scroll mouse
Network Interface Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet
Modem 56K PCI Telephony Modem
CD or DVD Drive 16 Max DVD-ROM Drive
Sound Card SoundBlaster Live 5.1 Audio Card
Speakers New Harman Kardon® HK-206 Speakers
Software Bundles Microsoft® Works Suite 2002 w/Money Standard
Virus Protection Norton AntiVirus™ 2002, 90-day introductory offer
Digital Music Dell Jukebox powered by MusicMatch
Digital Photography Dell Picture Studio, Image Expert Standard
Limited Warranty, Services and Support Options 1 Year Limited Warranty plus 1 Year At-Home Service
Internet Access Service 6 Months of Earthlink Internet Access
CD or DVD Burner for 2nd bay Save $79! (Savings included in price) New 48x/24x/48x Max CD-RW Drive
Special Offer $50 Special Offer
I'm a happy man :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
eviltechie
10-21-2002, 08:42 PM
do u really need the modem?
also the extra sound card?
Grinnin Reaper
10-21-2002, 09:13 PM
I'm still on dial-up and the intergrated sound card i'm running now will be the last one I'll ever run if I have my say in it.
BobyJo
10-21-2002, 09:23 PM
Just a bit of info, I read a review today of the Hercules Radeon 9700 Pro and the person doing the review did a thing I have never heard of before. A sound card decreases the performance of the computer by at least 20% in some of these hi-end games. Can you just imagine if you were in NOLFv2 and was kicking 103fps. If you could eleminate the sound card, you would be hitting about 130fps without changing anything else.
http://www.eagleperformancepcs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=241
Reading this and seeing the benchmarks, almost want's one to throw away the sound card in your system. Maybe this is basically why the onboard sound is beginning to be more popular. Looks as if onboard sound does not take as big a hit as the PCI card.
If you are in a rural area where the phone lines are not a great hookup. I feel for you. Awhile back we found ourselves in a financial bind. We had to discontinue our satellite ISP for a couple months until we were able to afford the $60 a month. The wife was hit in the rear by another woman driver talking on her cell phone. Hit the wife's car in the drivers side rear at about 35mph. The wife was stopped dead still. It totalled her car, then the ladies insurance decided they were not going to pay anything on our vehicle or medical bills. Long story, anyway I had to engage an attorney to aid us in attempting to settle this. Her ins co still has not paid any of the medical bills. We had to pay them by using our PIP, now we have none left on our policy for medical. So now just a waiting game. I signed up on NetZero for a couple of months. I just could not stand taking all night to download a 10mb file. Most of the time just to find the system has disconnected before the file had completed the download. Anyway as I said I feel for you, dial up really sucks after you have been used to broadband.
eviltechie
10-22-2002, 02:24 AM
i think when sound card is hooked up and working, it uses very little memory and CPU which could slow down the system but a tiny bit
maybe thats why...
but please correct me if im wrong
Grinnin Reaper
10-22-2002, 06:05 AM
That won't make on-board sound more popular, according to him it had just as much impact on the system. And in my particular experience I've got more out of a system by disabling on-board and adding a card (it was on an old packard bell but it helped). That's the only time I've seen results like that but have had diffrent myself. And with my current on-board sound sucking the way it does I couldn't bear to live with it. It distorts many MP3's some so severly you can barely hear words, it get's really bad in music video's. And in some games it will break up severly, lag the game, and cut out wholly at times. Computer run good and graphics will be fine but the audio is horrible. Work-around is to scrap the on-board audio. Also be aware that some games will not work without audio. Septerra Core (an older RPG) tries to initilaze your sound card when loading and it if doesn't it will crash every time. Also sorry to hear about ya'll gettin' stiffed onteh car wreck. That sucks man. 3rd and final note and least I get a good dial up 5k a second standard which beats the hell outta some I've had in the past
Gixxer420
10-22-2002, 12:21 PM
super deal
CiKoTiC
10-22-2002, 06:30 PM
Hey Pol, post some pics of that motherboard, RAM, and CPU. I'm curious what it looks like in your system.
CiKoTiC
10-22-2002, 07:54 PM
Come on, post some pics.
will post pics tomorrow when I get up around 9:00 pm
CiKoTiC
10-22-2002, 10:27 PM
Sure you will.
CiKoTiC
10-23-2002, 06:20 PM
:rofl:
You dont even have it installed correctly.
CiKoTiC
10-23-2002, 08:16 PM
Wont boot up eh? Could have told ya that. The Asus board is very picky on what RIMMS you populate it with. OCZ memory will not work with it at all unless you set it to PC-800 in the BIOS and that's only if your lucky. The same goes for the recommended Samsung memory.
The Asus recommended Kingston memory also wont work. After speaking with Kingston, they told me they discontinued all the RIMMS and sent new specifications to their mgf. to support the Asus motherboards. They informed me the new RIMMS wont be available until after Nov. 11th and that only 8000 units will be distributed to prefered resellers only(listed on Kingstons website). I also called all the prefered resellers and they all confirmed they had massive back orders for the (new) KVR1066xxxx/xxx RIMM modules.
I however was very lucky. I was able to contact a reseller in CA that had 4 RIMMS left that are verified to work on the Giga-Byte GA-8IHXP2 motherboard. I'm not going to hold my breath that it will work correctly but I do have more confidence in the Giga-Byte boards than I do with Asus because of the extensive list of verified RIMMS provided by them.
Grinnin Reaper
10-28-2002, 03:40 PM
Well my new dell has shipped, should be here this week i hope, i hope, i hope
BobyJo
10-28-2002, 07:39 PM
I should have made a paypal link to the thread that would pay me $ each time anyone ordered one of these from that thread. LOL HeHe
Hope you are happy with it.
Grinnin Reaper
10-29-2002, 02:18 PM
I got it, I got it. first set of benchmarks, before i start tweaking showed 12,000 plus on 3dmark 2001, I'll have to install 2001se after work.
eviltechie
10-29-2002, 02:38 PM
whats the graphic card you have on it?
Grinnin Reaper
10-29-2002, 02:50 PM
GeForece 4 ti 4200. I'll need to tweak it soon. But so far I love the computer.
vBulletin® v3.6.5, Copyright ©2000-2012, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.