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Cheap refurbished Dells.


On Feb 1, 2008 10:31 AM, Karl McClelland <karlspringfield at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> So that's me spending the rest of the morning on Overclockers looking at
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> I use (at the same time)
> database, a bit outlook, office word/excel, firefox running about 10 tabs,
> loads of utilities in the background, acrobat, illustrator etc.
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> i.e. not a designer working on huge images or doing any sort of rendering,
> just a heavy business user.
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> Not a gamer, but it would be quite cool to be able to at some point if I
> ever found a few minutes.
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> Would a ***hot single processor do the job with 2GB+ ram etc. and is this
> yearning for a quadcore thing just pure boys toys overkill ?
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> On 01/02/2008, Pete Fairhurst <pete.fairhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > If you're quick, this is a steal (from Dell):
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> > http://rurl.org/h7c
> >
> > Go for the 20" monitor upgrade though, as this unit is noticably
> > better than the default 19" silver jobby.
> >
> > And there's no point going for the E6550 'Core' processor upgrade as
> > none* of the other components will support the 1333MHz bus speed of
> > the chip.
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> > * <rant>I don't know why places like Dell do this in the first place;
> > it's fucking stupid to provide a very particular upgrade for one
> > component, but not allow you to match that upgrade throughout the
> > system to actually get any performance benefit from the thing.
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> > Idiots -- it's the very reason why I've always built my own machines
> > and consummately gloated as my rigs wee all over factory-built
> > machines of - on paper - what should be a higher spec.</rant>
> >
> > - Pete
> >
> > _____________________________________________________________________
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> > "It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."
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> > - The Red Queen ['Through the Looking-Glass' by Lewis Carroll]
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> Thanks,
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> Karl
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