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hijynx54

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I am purchasing a new computer for WoW and built a dell online. I was wondering if I could get some input on the following computer.

Dell Dimension E510 Series Pentium® D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB)
Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
Memory 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x512M)
Keyboard Dell USB Keyboard
Monitor 19 inch Ultrasharp™ 1907FP Digital Flat Panel
Video Card 256MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon X600 SE HyperMemory
Hard Drive 160GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/ 8MB cache

Do you all think this computer will be able to run WoW well? If not what do I need to upgrade? I wanted a better video card since I haven't heard of the X600 SE, is that a good card? Any help is appreciative.

Oh, and price comes out to around 600-650 so if anyone has any other good companies and in the same price range to purchase from (not build my own) feel free to input that is well. Thanks.
 
As most people would say AMD is better as far as gaming goes. That cpu has great overclocking potential, but I don't think the motherboards, heatsinks or ram that dell dishes out will be able to take advantage of that. In any case the video card seems to be the weakest point in this comp cause the x600 is pretty slow, but se means special edition. Like short bus special.
I strongly suggest building your own cause most companies that build custom computers are gonna charge u an arm and a leg, such as alienware and vodoo pc. There are also a forsale section in the forums.
 
Yah, building my own isn't really an option. But, do you think that computer can run WoW well? I was also looking at monarch computers, for about 200 more I can get an X800 GT I think it is, an AMD3500, DFI Nf4 sli board, 1 gig of ram and whatever else. Do you think that would be THAT much better, especially for that price upgrade?

Thanks for the input by the way.
 
Definetly go with Monarch. Your gonna know what your getting and the components will be high quality. Sometimes Dell will even use refurbished parts in those cheap builds. Read the fine print.
 
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