Is this pc price reasonable?

wilson1973

To be mainly used for surfing net,no gaming and i dont watch dvds



£329.99



Inspiron 545 Minitower with Black Bezel
Piano Black
Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core E5200 processor (2.5GHz, 800MHz, 2MB cache)
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium SP1 - English
Microsoft® Works 9.0 - English
1 Year Limited Warranty - Collect & Return
Display Not Included
3072MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [3x1024]
320GB (7200rpm) SATA Hard Drive
Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100
16X DVD+/- RW Drive (DVD & CD read and write) and 16x DVD-ROM Drive (DVD & CD read)
Dell™ USB Entry Keyboard - UK/Irish (QWERTY)
Dell 2 Button USB Scroll Optical Mouse - Black
Inspiron Desktop 545 Resource DVD (Diagnostic & Drivers)
English Documentation
D064502
Inspiron Desktop 545 MT Order - UK
1Yr Limited Warranty - Collect & Return
2 Meter Power Cord - UK
Integrated 7.1 Channel High Definition Audio

19-in-1 Media Card reader

DataSafe Online Backup 2GB 1 year

Knub

wilson1973 wrote: »

To be mainly used for surfing net,no gaming and i dont watch dvds



£329.99



Inspiron 545 Minitower with Black Bezel
Piano Black
Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core E5200 processor (2.5GHz, 800MHz, 2MB cache)
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium SP1 - English
Microsoft® Works 9.0 - English
1 Year Limited Warranty - Collect & Return
Display Not Included
3072MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [3x1024]
320GB (7200rpm) SATA Hard Drive
Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100
16X DVD+/- RW Drive (DVD & CD read and write) and 16x DVD-ROM Drive (DVD & CD read)
Dell™ USB Entry Keyboard - UK/Irish (QWERTY)
Dell 2 Button USB Scroll Optical Mouse - Black
Inspiron Desktop 545 Resource DVD (Diagnostic & Drivers)
English Documentation
D064502
Inspiron Desktop 545 MT Order - UK
1Yr Limited Warranty - Collect & Return
2 Meter Power Cord - UK
Integrated 7.1 Channel High Definition Audio

19-in-1 Media Card reader

DataSafe Online Backup 2GB 1 year

There is no Monitor. Other than that, looks fine to me. You can watch DVD's on it too! Even though you don't watch them!

It will browse the net and in general be a fine computer from the specification.

jaydeeuk1

If you're comfortable with installing your own OS, then try this one (on pre order at moment)..

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/164667

Intel e5200
4gb Ram
DVDRW
500gb HD
Keyboard / mouse


Cost £229


Just add in price of Vista / XP which can be found for £50 - £60. Bargain.

Edit - Motherboard also supports Core 2 Quad CPU and FSB up to 1333. I'm tempted myself now!

isofa

See if there are any better Dell deals here: https://www.dmxdimension.com

penrhyn

Possibly more bang for your buck if you went for the AMD powered 546.

See dmxdimension as posted above.

jaydeeuk1

penrhyn wrote: »

Possibly more bang for your buck if you went for the AMD powered 546.

See dmxdimension as posted above.

The Listed price for the 546 is the crappy Sempron Processor. A half decent Athlon x2 5200 adds another £50. Comes to £329, and spec not as good as the deal in the original post, let alone the ebuyer one.

Though to be fair, their laptop deals look pretty good.

Laz123

It's also a good idea to bear in mind a new pc's upgrade potential. You may want a better upgrade spec later, in which the ram, graphics etc can be upped.
IMHO the best processors are AMD followed by Intel.

isofa

IMO Intel processors are far and away better than anything AMD has on offer at the moment! IMO. And most of the comparative reviews will show this. There isn't much in the price, the Core 2 Duos are excellent and if you need the power the quad cores are remarkable beasts.

jaydeeuk1

Laz123 wrote: »

It's also a good idea to bear in mind a new pc's upgrade potential. You may want a better upgrade spec later, in which the ram, graphics etc can be upped.
IMHO the best processors are AMD followed by Intel.

Depends what you mean by 'best'. If you mean speedwise, then no, AMD nowhere near Intel in the higher performance segment. If you mean pound / performance, then under £100, AMD are competitive, and under £60 are better.

But if you bring overclocking in to the equation, which when done properly, is an excellent way to increase your CPU's performance, then AMD can't hold a candle to intel sadly.

penrhyn

Dell's deals come and go from day to day, on the face of it for the same money you got a faster processor more memory and a larger harddrive going for the AMD 546, striks me that Dell may be dropping the AMD processors again, thus the extra discount in that range.
Up to the Op of course, you pays your money.....................................................

Dave101t

at that price, your laughing really, great spec for non-gaming