Is This A Good Deal?

[Bearbegr]

Hi,

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=51145&item=5118098155&rd=1

I am looking to buy a computer that I can use for Creating DVDs... I dont do any 3D things, so dont need major system... I like this system cause of the price and the monitor... After going to a local PC Builder, this price is even better! I am planning on buy the NEC DVD-RW from Newegg.com to put in it... So is this any good... PLMK ASAP I really need to know...

P.S. Sorry about posting as new topic... I think the other became too large!...

Chris

[Capmaster]

It's an good deal if that's a 17" CRT - a great deal if it's a 17" LCD. It says "flat panel" but I've seen that term used for flat-screen CRTs before.

[DVD_Ripper]

I did a quick search and it looks like that is a LCD monitor. So the price seems good.

You will want to check drive space to see if you an add another drive while keeping the other two. (would be nice to have a CDRW, ROM and Burner all in the same machine.

Look to add a Firewire card down the road

[Bearbegr]

I did a quick search and it looks like that is a LCD monitor. So the price seems good.

Keep in mind though that the speced drives:
Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 48x CD-RW Drive

does not reference a DVD Burnder... Reader and a CDRW... No DVD Burner... you would need to add one of those.

Newegg has the one I would buy... thanks for the input...

[Bearbegr]

I did a quick search and it looks like that is a LCD monitor. So the price seems good.

You will want to check drive space to see if you an add another drive while keeping the other two. (would be nice to have a CDRW, ROM and Burner all in the same machine.

Look to add a Firewire card down the road

I dont think it will be able to, but I can always have a spare on hand... I think I will buy this... I have to go to work and will think about it... LMK

[hhhhbk]

its incredibly cheap ~£400 for a p4 2.8 delivered is a decent price in the uk but then add in a 17 ins tft and its incredible
on my way now to see if there is a uk version of this

[DVD_Ripper]

I did a quick search and it looks like that is a LCD monitor. So the price seems good.

You will want to check drive space to see if you an add another drive while keeping the other two. (would be nice to have a CDRW, ROM and Burner all in the same machine.

Look to add a Firewire card down the road

I dont think it will be able to, but I can always have a spare on hand... I think I will buy this... I have to go to work and will think about it... LMK

Pull the CDRW and keep hte DVD ROM. (Your DVD burner should be able to burn CD's as well.) That way you can abuse your DVD Rom for test scans, Rips and Copying tasks.

[trickyman]

The price is good, but it has an integrated video card, thats never good... Even though u dont plan on doing anything 3D intensive it's still good to have video card that could support it if the need ever arose. Plus it dosen't have and firewire ports which you will NEED for capturing digital video....

[Bearbegr]

The price is good, but it has an integrated video card, thats never good... Even though u dont plan on doing anything 3D intensive it's still good to have video card that could support it if the need ever arose. Plus it dosen't have and firewire ports which you will NEED for capturing digital video....

People keep saying this... What is Firewire??? Why will I need them? I have a USB Win TV... That will work with this right? I think it will...

So thier is no place to ever add one? never ever? Hmm... I really dont think I will need it... But now you made me think hard!! Dang it!...

[kosekjm]

You can buy add on fire wire cards (I have one in my Dell 4550) Firewire is used if you have a DV camcorder and its just another type of connector on the PC (Think USB only faster) You may never need firewire for what you want to capture. I have firewire to capture from my camcorder.

As to adding a third drive, the 4600 and lower series only has two 5 1/4 drive bays (CD rom sized) I'm not sure about the 8300 but think it only has two as well. You have to step up to the Dell XPS systems to get three 5 1/4 bays.

Also, the 4600 does have an AGP slot that is capable of up to 8X AGP cards.

Your USB Win TV should work just fine. The dells have at least 6 and sometime 8 usb ports (4-6 on the back and two on the front)

kosekjm

BTW
Here's the link to the Dell service manuals. You can read about the machine and it's specifications:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim4600/en/series_en.htm

[ZippyP.]

256 MB of ram isn't enough, 512 minimum.

[Bearbegr]

256 MB of ram isn't enough, 512 minimum.

It will do for awhile... I will add 512 later... to make it over 700...