New Computer!

[Charmed1]

Hey All! I just wanted to share my new excitement with you guys!

My new computer was delivered today; it's the replacement for my 6 year old dinosaur. She has served me well over the past years, depsite the celeron (yes, I know) processor. I've given her to my boyfriend to tinker with.

My new one is a Dell Dimension 3000. I would have built my own, but that would have made my sister's all nervous and since we were splitting the cost, I had to listen to them.

So if there is anyone out there who has the system and has any feedback/suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

[gibbonsl]

what are the stats on your set up?

and what warrenty did you by?

also did you order it thru dell.com?

[Charmed1]

Penitum 4 Processor (2.8ghz, 533 FSB)

512MB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 400MHz

17" Flat Panel Monitor

80GB Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive

56K PCI Data/Fax Modem

48x CD-Rw Drive

1Yr Ltd Warranty, 1Yr At-Home Service, and 1Yr Technical Support

We mainly used the computer for surfing the net and school work, so we didn't need too much power.

I bought through Dell.com. I've used them in the past and been very happy with them. I looked for new Dells on Ebay. But I just felt better buying it directly from them. I paid about $650 shipped for the whole thing.

[gibbonsl]

not bad at that price :thumbsup:

very good deal

[sfleuriet]

you'll fill that hd up very fast, and when its even half filled it'll slow to a grinding halt and freeze up all the time.

[gibbonsl]

hm mine does not do that

:scratch:

but it is very cheap to add another hd

if thay are worryed about cracking opening the case, an external HD around 160 gigs can be had for under 120 bucks

just remenber if their are going to be more then one person using the system, make sure to create profiles for everbody

don't use the admin unless you have to

do you know if the thing has a agp slot

it only has intel extream 2

a agp card, even a cheap one, can help out alot

[qparadox]

I ordered one of these for research work (not my money). My main complaint with it is that there's only 1 hard drive bay in the darned case :/. So if you do want to upgrade to a bigger HD you'll have to get an adpater so it'll fit in the cd-rom sized bay or replace the current HD.

Other than that its been a stable setup with no real complaints from me.

[TheSmJ]

you'll fill that hd up very fast, and when its even half filled it'll slow to a grinding halt and freeze up all the time.

I've never, ever heard of that happening to anyone. :wtf:

[Nightwolf]

you'll fill that hd up very fast, and when its even half filled it'll slow to a grinding halt and freeze up all the time.
I agree with smj

[primesuspect]

:rolleyes: don't listen to pilotwings.. Nice buy :)

[Nomad]

you'll fill that hd up very fast, and when its even half filled it'll slow to a grinding halt and freeze up all the time.

I've run my computer on less than thirty gigs of data for nearly four years now on a harddrive that is half of my age.

[Black Hawk]

I've run my computer on less than thirty gigs of data for nearly four years now on a harddrive that is half of my age.Lack of "bible music" :crazy:

[sfleuriet]

I will say no more for the prevention of flaming. :)

[Leonardo]

Multiple users - mulitple profiles - multiples of normal risk.

Please make sure you head over to our security forums (http://www.short-media.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=56) and learn how to prevent spyware, virii, trojans, and adware! At this point, that's much more important than the specifications of the hardware.

[Camman]

yeah im gonna have to disagree about the 1/2 full hard disk. I have a 120gig and I've only had about 10gigs left for probably the last 6 months and I've got no issues with it...


Nice comp for that price though sounds like you got a good deal

[dragonV8]

Congrats Charmed1. Sounds like a nice buy. :thumbsup:

Now the fighting starts as to who's turn it is to surf, lol. :D

[Zanthian]

Make sure you setup folding on there too! :D

[Lord_Night]

Sweet buy, very nice...

oh yes folding must go on that sweet machine...

Still woulda held out a few days to see if Sisters would let ya build it .

[Charmed1]

Thanks for the avice. I appreciate it.

If if have any problems with the hard drive, the warranty will cover it for the first year. After that I'm pretty sure my sisters will thought of how to screw it up.

[QCH]

...you'll fill that hd up very fast, and when its even half filled it'll slow to a grinding halt and freeze up all the time.Huh? 20 GB, Oh yeah. 40 GB should be fine for what she indicated she was using it for....We mainly used the computer for surfing the net and school work, so we didn't need too much power. But 80 GB... that will do just fine for most people that aren't collecting movies or music in LARGE quantity.

Good buy... All of my Work PC's are Dell's. Overall, very reliable.