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Dell's 6800 GT option - When?

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Michael Younger

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Am I a fool to continue holding out for an Nvidia 6800 GT configuration option from Dell? I've been waiting for four months now.
 
It's really up to them, there should be enough market availabilty for them to buy into.
But, as always, it would be much cheaper and easier to upgrade in the future if you were to build it yourself, or buy a pc from the likes of pre-builds like ibuypower.com or monarchcomputer.com
 
Michael Younger said:
Am I a fool to continue holding out for an Nvidia 6800 GT configuration option from Dell? I've been waiting for four months now.
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Probably. :(

Don't buy their 6800 GTO, it is a reduced-performance card and not up to legit GT specs.
 
Same thing that Dell does with their SE line of cards, they underclock them so badly that getting them to stock speed is a challenge to most OCers. Dell has a bad case of the underclocking syndrome.
 
wait a sec, you mean you're going to get a Dell? woah....
 
minc3d said:
HAHA get a laugh out of this, Check out what dell has to say about how the geforce 6800 cards can handle web surfing. They only rate it for better. LOL

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/lea...popup&~model=xps3&~series=dimen&~tab=overview

A joke or for real?
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Well...
Everyone knows that websurfing realy takes truckloads of GPU power... or wait... maybe...

It's probably meant for a comparison between the cards but i doubt that anyone will notice much if a difference between any of them in non gaming environments.
 
I soft-modded my GTO to 16 pixel pipes and 6 vertex pipes using Rivatuner. Seems to work without any problems but your mileage may vary. I can probably OC the memory from 900 to 1000 but I haven't bothered yet. The only thing that concerns me is increased heat generation and power draw considering that my Dell 8400 only has a 350W power supply and the cooling is not particularly pimped out.

Bottom line is that it can be modded to GT specs if you are lucky.

BTW, I bought the Dell because they had a $500 off deal that I couldn't beat by pricing out my own system. I usually build my own.
 
No, the Dell is for home use only. For work, I use an Apple Powerbook, which I love.

I realize that I could buy from places like ibuypower.com or alienware, but the thing is, I live in Canada, and ordering from The United States is not a simple matter.

That said, which of the gaming PC makers is the best, and the cheapest? I'm on a serious budget here.

Man, some people really hate Dell?
 
minc3d said:
HAHA get a laugh out of this, Check out what dell has to say about how the geforce 6800 cards can handle web surfing. They only rate it for better. LOL

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/lea...popup&~model=xps3&~series=dimen&~tab=overview

A joke or for real?
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Same goes for DVDs. Any modern video card (this may even extend to Intel's GMA900, I'm not sure) has a hardware MPEG2 decoder integrated. This is true all the way down to low-end cards, as far down as an FX5200, and as old as the Radeon7000- at least!
With the exception of the GF6 PVP, you won't notice a difference between the X300SE and the X850XTPE. In fact, the PVP means that the 6800 vanilla & GTO may actually do better than the X850!
 
Well, if I were you I'd just build my own... Dell gives you the broad facts that sound good... 512 MB of DDR memory (dont mention its SLOW cheap value memory), they dont tell you its a crappy mobo, they dont tell you the hard drives are 5400rpm (and yes SOME are), they don't tell you their PSUs are so weak theyd piss themselves if you tried to feed them even a 6600gt, and they dont tell you alot of things you as a gamer need to know.
 
I'm building my system around the video card. Right now, I'm not settling for anything less than a 6800 GT.

My budget only allows for a 3GHZ system with 1GB of RAM. Due to costs, Falcon Northwest, Alienware, and Voodoo Systems, are all out of my range. You can buy a rig from these people that will cost you less than $2000 Canadian, but it won't sport a 6800 GT.

The only company that I could buy such a PC from is either Dell (which I'm comfortable with - although they don't have a 6800 GT option yet) or ibuypower.com, which I know absolutely nothing about.

So I suppose the question is, has anybody had any dealings with ibuypower.com?
 
I got bored/curious and threw this together. Prices are in US, but current conversion puts 2000 Canadian dollars at around $1600. This means you've still got almost 200 Canadian bucks for a case, power supply, and anything else you wanna throw in.

6800GT PCIe $500
A64 3500+ Retail $270
Asus A8N SLI $270
Patriot 3200XBL, 2x512MB (TCCD, 2-2-2-5-1T@DDR400) $220
200GB Maxtor IDE HD (I know it's not SATA, but that won't slow you down) $110
16x DL DVD+/-RW (NEC) $65
Total 1435USD
All prices are Newegg's, except that 6800 is out of stock.
 
Agreed. It makes sense to build your own rig - it'll cost you less money, and the quality is assured. There's just one catch.

You have to have the technical expertise.

With my last PC I decided I could 'easily' install a new DVD drive on my own - wrong. Eight hours into the process I was ready to rip my hair out. I was so frustrated that I actually started screaming out loud.

This was a DVD installation, mind you. There's just no way that I could ever build my own PC. Others have suggested I get somebody else to do it for me - again, I've had so many bad experiences from getting other people to do things for me.

The thing about Dell is that they're a reliable company. In 1998, I bought a state-of-the-art 266MHZ Dimension from them - it had 256MB of RAM and an 8MB RIVA 128 video card. I had two amazing years of gaming on that system. So from personal experience, I can say that Dell has served me well at least once in the past.

What's the deal. Has Dell gone down in the world in the past 6 years?
 
Michael Younger said:
What's the deal. Has Dell gone down in the world in the past 6 years?
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I think the problem is more that unless you spend top dollar (ie far more than you would pay to build it yourself) and pay very close attention to specs, Dell will sell you dogshit and tell you it's birthday cake.
 
I got bored/curious and threw this together. Prices are in US, but current conversion puts 2000 Canadian dollars at around $1600. This means you've still got almost 200 Canadian bucks for a case, power supply, and anything else you wanna throw in.
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Wait, you forgot monitor, windows, ms office, keyboard, speaker, ect ect.
Ive been looking into this recently, and dell is acually the cheapest way to get a mid-ranged pc, especially if you dont have all those things.

I just bought a decent computer with everything for 1700, which would have cost me over 2000 building it by myself from NCIX.com, ect.
 
I got the following in October:

Dimension 8400:
- 3.2GHz P4 Prescott
- 1GB 533 MHz DDR2
- 160GB Western Digital SATA
- 16x DVD-ROM (i'll buy a separate burner later)
- Integrated Sound
- Geforce 6800 GTO (mine is moddable to GT specs, ebay asking price was around $350 at the time)
- 19" LCD Monitor E193FP (not the best but it retailed for around $400 at the time)
- Mouse, keyboard, etc.

Remember, when building you own, factor in case, power supply, motherboard, and windows license in addition to the above.

I got all of this for $1100. It was an unbeatable deal at the time. I couldn't approach this with a self-built system. I stuck with the standard 1-yr warranty. Since an extended warranty adds a few hundred $, I'm betting on the fact that nothing will crap out. Even if a part does crap out after a year, its unlikely that it would cost more than the upfront warranty cost to replace. Anything except the mobo and powersupply can be replaced easily.

And its relatively quiet. I would have spent even more $ on quaility cooling solutions to get the same noise level.

Edit: And shipping was free.
 
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