Dell SB [dell.com] has Vostro 400 mini tower desktop for base price of $599. Thanks davidhood

1. Click here [dell.com]
2. Select the following options:
   1. 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz - 2DIMMs [subtract $130]
3. Add to cart and checkout, your total should be $469 with free shipping

Specs

• Intel Core 2 Duo Proc E6550 (2.33GHz,4MB L2Cache,1333FSB)
• Genuine Windows XP Home or Vista Home Basic if selected
• Dell 19 inch Widescreen E198WFP Analog Flat Panel Monitor
• 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz - 2DIMMs
• 80GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache
• 48x CD Burner / DVD-ROM Combo Drive
• 128MB NVIDIA GeForce 8300GS
• Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
• 1 Year Limited Hardware Warranty with Next Business Day On-Site Service

Good upgrades to consider:

• Dell 20 inch Widescreen E207WFP Digital Flat Panel Display [add $50]
• 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT [add $50] or 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GTS, 2DVI [add $80]

i just got one the other day.... shipped today. wil be here on thursday.

NICE...sell the 20" on the bay and use the $169 22" Acer...hmmm

Quote from davidhood : I haven't seen anything this hot in a while... 2.33 ghz core 2 19 LCD 80 gig drive 1 gig RAM dvd rom for $469 (shows up first as $599 but remove 1 gig of ram to save $130) bump in $30 for DVD+- another $50 for 20" LCD, the pick up 2 gigs RAM for about $65 and you've got a state of the art system for about $600. http://configure.us.dell.com/dell...oc=brdw4af

Good deal with the 1GB. May go with 8 of them by downgrading to 1GB and adding the flat panel speakers for $10 and the USB optical mouse for $10 for a total of $489 and then call order modification and see if I can change the monitor to the SE198WFP [dell.com] since they're the same price and it has a power input for the flat panel speakers. (FYI this is for a business)

Quote from davidhood : bump in $30 for DVD+- another $50 for 20" LCD, the pick up 2 gigs RAM for about $65 and you've got a state of the art system for about $600.

comes with an 8300GS 128MB also. Upgrade the card to the 8600GT for only $50, definately jump on that.

repped,

I'm in for two!

Thanks for the link.

Quote from davidhood : bump in $30 for DVD+-

You're better off getting this 20X Samsung [newegg.com] SATA DVD Writer for $31.99 instead so you'll have dual drives for about the same cost when you figure in the tax on $30 from Dell. Don't forget you'll need an additional SATA cable for the drive.

thanks op. repped. i've been waiting for this.

Quote from Jughead : You're better off getting this 20X Samsung [newegg.com] SATA DVD Writer for $31.99 instead so you'll have dual drives for about the same cost when you figure in the tax on $30 from Dell. Don't forget you'll need an additional SATA cable for the drive.

That DVD drive is OOS...bummer

Quote from Lukeman : comes with an 8300GS 128MB also. Upgrade the card to the 8600GT for only $50, definately jump on that.

Does the 8600GT have dual DVD-I outputs?

Does any Vostro 400 owners know that if you can upgrade this yourself? I heard everything is built in. I have a dvd dual layer rewriteable and an IDE internal hard drive. Do you think i can just install these in there?

It's a pity that the processor upgrades are so damn expensive; I was configuring a quad-core computer using the Build A PC thread here for about 839, minus a screen

Vostro 400:

Base Intel® Core™2 Duo Proc E6550 (2.33GHz,4MB L2Cache,1333FSB)
Memory 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz - 2DIMMs
Monitor Dell 19 inch Widescreen E198WFP Analog Flat Panel Monitor
Video Card 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600GT
Optical Drives Single Drive: 48x CD Burner / DVD-ROM Combo Drive

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Vostro 200:

Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E4300 (1.80GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800FSB)
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz - 2DIMMs
Dell 22 inch Widescreen E228WFP Analog Flat Panel Display
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3100
Single Drive: 16X DVD-ROM Drive


For exactly the same price of $580.67. Which one would you pick considering I'm not a gamer and I already have the Nvidia 7600GS 512mb DDR2? The Vostro 200 can be overclock to be like the 400 I think but not sure if I wanna do that or not.