Dell Home has a good deal on their XPS 8000 system. Price is $599 and $13 shipping. Thank you persian_mafia

• Intel Core i5-750 Quad-Core @ 2.66GHz
• 3GB DDR3 RAM
• 500GB 7200 Rpm HDD
• 16X DVDRW
• NVIDIA GeForce GT220 1GB
• Star Trek Movie + Game on 4gb Flash Drive
• Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

Would any experts please comment on this deal? Is it worth it?

What about the $99 processor upgrade option?

Thanks!

Quote from elanamig : Would any experts please comment on this deal? Is it worth it? What about the $99 processor upgrade option? Thanks!

It's warm. If this were 6 gb, it would be hot.

I just got an Dell with 3.2 GHZ, i5 processor, 8gb DDR3, from best buy for 900.00 so I would say this is a good deal. As far as the upgraded processor. It all depends on what you intend you use it for. I just use this one for the net and my school assignments so the i5 processor is really fast especially for what I use it for.

Ok, I was wrong, sheesh get over it XD~
I was thinking of the i3...

Quote from elanamig : Would any experts please comment on this deal? Is it worth it? What about the $99 processor upgrade option? Thanks!

i7-860 has HyperThreading which can be seen as a fake 8 cores cpu.

Quote from MagicCows : Change the title, the i5 processor is not a quad core system, it is only a duel core processor that does a software simulation of 4 threads

Dude what are you smoking. The Core i5-750 is a true quad-core proc. In fact, if you mean "software simulation" as in hyperthreading, the 750 doesn't even have it at all.

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42915

Quote from MagicCows : Change the title, the i5 processor is not a quad core system, it is only a duel core processor that does a software simulation of 4 threads

lol. wrong dude.
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42915

I might just go for it. Both my laptop and my PC died this week, and I need something reasonable quickly...

What about the memory upgrade? Is 8GB for $190 worth it? A quick search on newegg did not produce much better deals for memory, so it seems that Dell is charging a fair price... Or is 3GB ok? I don't plan to run any games, but I'm going to watch occasional movies, and will use photoshop and some slide show software...

Sorry for newb questions - I haven't shopped for a PC in the past 5 years, and I'm completely out of the loop on what's good and what's not these days. Thanks for your advice!

Quote from elanamig : I might just go for it. Both my laptop and my PC died this week, and I need something reasonable quickly... What about the memory upgrade? Is 8GB for $190 worth it? A quick search on newegg did not produce much better deals for memory, so it seems that Dell is charging a fair price... Or is 3GB ok? I don't plan to run any games, but I'm going to watch occasional movies, and will use photoshop and some slide show software... Sorry for newb questions - I haven't shopped for a PC in the past 5 years, and I'm completely out of the loop on what's good and what's not these days. Thanks for your advice!

If you have money to burn, get the ram upgrade. If you do heavy photoshopping on big file, you will want more than 3gb.

Quote from elanamig : I might just go for it. Both my laptop and my PC died this week, and I need something reasonable quickly... What about the memory upgrade? Is 8GB for $190 worth it? A quick search on newegg did not produce much better deals for memory, so it seems that Dell is charging a fair price... Or is 3GB ok? I don't plan to run any games, but I'm going to watch occasional movies, and will use photoshop and some slide show software... Sorry for newb questions - I haven't shopped for a PC in the past 5 years, and I'm completely out of the loop on what's good and what's not these days. Thanks for your advice!

You better off with refurb PC's from Tigerdirect or renovate.com. They sell for cheap price compare to what you are going to pay DELL.

I have personally purchased from Tigerdirect and Renovate and both items came as brand new even though those are refurb.

Quote from max1001 : If you have money to burn, get the ram upgrade. If you do heavy photoshopping on big file, you will want more than 3gb.

No one has money to burn, but I'm willing to splurge on a worthy addition. That's why I'm asking for advice instead of just going for big numbers

Quote from newbie2398 : You better off with refurb PC's from Tigerdirect or renovate.com. They sell for cheap price compare to what you are going to pay DELL. I have personally purchased from Tigerdirect and Renovate and both items came as brand new even though those are refurb.

Hmmm... I have to check that out!