Excellent Dell desktop £329 delivered

quidsinquentin

If anyone has bought this PC, can we get a consensus as to whether the onboard graphics card works with vista?

flyer

Jim7 wrote: »

If you didn't upgrade then you must be using the "on board" graphics card, i.e. part of the motherboard. So in fact you did not even select this card, you were just buying the one recommended. This is definitiely their fault.

It would be like BMW giving you some different options for in-car stereo i.e. cassette/ CD etc. when they knew that the CD player would not work in that model of car.

I've just spoken to them again and they've offered a a 10% discount so I can get a better card or will refund the lot and take it away. Surely, everyone is having this problem?

Dalkirst

What card did you upgrade to..the 1300?
I upgraded to that on the last offer before this one and it works fine with Vista.

flyer

I didnt upgrade. Got the default one.

JPanter

I am thinking of buying this for my mum who is computer illiterate and wants to email and surf net and do a bit of word processing and the guy from dell who i was chatting to on line about my purchase said the processer was not very good and I should think of up grading to a pentium!! this means very little to me I was surprised he was saying their own products were not very good do you think he was on commission? any help please? havent bought it yet

skr80

JPanter wrote: »

I am thinking of buying this for my mum who is computer illiterate and wants to email and surf net and do a bit of word processing and the guy from dell who i was chatting to on line about my purchase said the processer was not very good and I should think of up grading to a pentium!! this means very little to me I was surprised he was saying their own products were not very good do you think he was on commission? any help please? havent bought it yet

This will more more than enough for what you want (+ most others apart from gamers and artists that may need a decent graphics card installed) - the chap must be on commision!

ixi

Set mine up last night, with just the onboard graphics and Vista works fine. That is Home premium, But I think basic would have even lower requirements. What res are you running at?

alanobrien

flyer wrote: »

Did you buy the basic graphics card?

Yes but it was for a business machine not a games machine.
Its still a lot better than i expected though.

Miser_maz

This looks like a good deal, I presently have an AMD 64 3800, for gaming. I fancy going for it mainly for the tft monitor. Will this offer any significant increase in performance to my present AMD. By the way i'll add my own graphic card.

Gameplayers

Did anyone go for the 22" inch LCD monitor upgrade?