Current Dell Offers (merged) [CLOSED]

Jane.tweedynn

biglugs wrote:

The link is working now - Dell price should be £641!! So a megasaving of £234 for those who jumped in for it!

So if you take off the £70 bank holiday discount this leaves £165 which is the cost of an upgrade from the 630 to 650 processor.

Looks like the pc was underpriced over the bank holiday by £165.

At a cost of £571 that includes the £70 bank holiday discount is not bad but I wouldn't have bought. It took me over 12 hours to make my mind up to buy when the pc was mispriced by £165.

Mecoconuts

Does anyone know what spec the motherboard is with this pc ?

I can't find any details of it anywhere on their website. Maybe i'm not looking hard enough....LOL

smashed

The discount is £234, as both the offer now, and then.. had £70 off.
So in reality , you had £234 + £70 off the original price.. as it was supposed to be £700.
They also gave you 512MB RAM free too.

Bennifred

smashed wrote:

The discount is £234, as both the offer now, and then.. had £70 off.
So in reality , you had £234 + £70 off the original price.. as it was supposed to be £700.
They also gave you 512MB RAM free too.

Brilliant, isn't it?! Waiting for mine (well, OK, DS's!) with bated breath - can't quite believe it will happen :rolleyes:

biglugs

Still in pre-production - damn. Last time I ordered a Dimension 3000 they must have had a load sitting around cos it was dispatched next day!

Jane.tweedynn

biglugs wrote:

Because the offer is no longer available.

I had been planning to sell the base unit of this and keep the TFT for my daughter. But on second thoughts I might just sell off the bits of her old PIII 800 (which works perfectly well) and keep this one. Seems too good a machine to let it go on Ebay for £350 (besides there is loads of competition on there - lots of people selling these and we haven't even got them yet!)

For a £407 PC, one of these has just gone on eBay for £490 exc delivery without 17" TFT

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DELL-DIMENSION-5100-BRAND-NEW-BOXED-NO-RESERVE_W0QQitemZ5236467450QQcategoryZ14294QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

biglugs

Does anyone know what spec the motherboard is with this pc ?

It will be a proprietary motherboard made specially for Dell. Don't know too much about it other than what you can glean from the order:
BTX design (so quieter and cooler than ATX design?)
DDR2 400MHz memory dual channel memory max 4GB in 4 DIMM slots
1 x PCI-E 16x slot
1 x PCI-E 1x slot
2 x PCI slots
Integrated Intel Pro 10/100 Ethernet
On-board 7.1 channel audio
2 x SATA connectors (max 2 x 500GB disks supported)
On-board Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950

Given that this machine comes with a modem I assume one of the PCI slots is taken up already. The 16x PCI-E slot is used by the graphics card.
Interestingly the photo of the PC on the Dell website shows a sound card installed, with no obvious connectors on the motherboard for the 7.1 sound, or the integrated graphics.

Mecoconuts

biglugs wrote:

It will be a proprietary motherboard made specially for Dell. Don't know too much about it other than what you can glean from the order:
BTX design (so quieter and cooler than ATX design?)
DDR2 400MHz memory dual channel memory max 4GB in 4 DIMM slots
1 x PCI-E 16x slot
1 x PCI-E 1x slot
2 x PCI slots
Integrated Intel Pro 10/100 Ethernet
On-board 7.1 channel audio
2 x SATA connectors (max 2 x 500GB disks supported)
On-board Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950

Given that this machine comes with a modem I assume one of the PCI slots is taken up already. The 16x PCI-E slot is used by the graphics card.
Interestingly the photo of the PC on the Dell website shows a sound card installed, with no obvious connectors on the motherboard for the 7.1 sound, or the integrated graphics.

Cheers for that !!

biglugs

Believe it or not at 3:53 this morning I received an email from Dell containing my Internet Receipt Acknowledgment!! You're supposed to get this BEFORE the PDF which I received on Monday! Bizarre.

Agent_C

biglugs wrote:

Believe it or not at 3:53 this morning I received an email from Dell containing my Internet Receipt Acknowledgment!! You're supposed to get this BEFORE the PDF which I received on Monday! Bizarre.

Me too - very odd!