# Who wants a nice new desktop for cheap?!
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569
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**Created:** [August 29, 2007, 10:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569 "2007-08-29T10:06:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@nappy1380](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nappy1380)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 10:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/1 "2007-08-29T10:06:53Z")
[I came across this and think it is a screaming deal!!](http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/odg/hip_msn?c=us&trigger=g&cs=04&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dell.com%2Fcontent%2Ftopics%2Fsegtopic.aspx%2Fodg%2Fhip_msn%3Fc%3Dus&mboxSession=1188390613865-400620&l=en&s=bsd)
_Vostro 200 Mini Tower_
_Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor E2140 (1.60GHz, 1MB L2 Cache_
_Genuine Windows® XP Home_
_1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz - 2DIMMs_
_Dell 19 inch Widescreen E198WFP Analog Flat Panel Monitor_
_80GB3 Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™_
_1 Year Limited Hardware Warranty4 with Next Business Day On-Site Service__5_
Figured someone would like to take advantage of this. The whole setup for $379 and that INCLUDES shipping! You’re welcome in advance 👋.
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/2 "2007-08-29T10:10:11Z")
lol, Dell has some interesting one-day sales.
:tup:
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### Author:  [@Adictd2b00st](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Adictd2b00st)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/3 "2007-08-29T10:23:10Z")
ok i don’t know much about computers… i have a AMD athlon 1.8ghz currently, how would this compare?
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### Author:  [@sureshot](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/4 "2007-08-29T10:31:44Z")
would this run bioshock
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 10:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/5 "2007-08-29T10:34:14Z")
athlon 64? jay.
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### Author:  [@Adictd2b00st](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Adictd2b00st)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 11:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/6 "2007-08-29T11:12:53Z")
64 was the “newer” one right? its prolly about 3 yrs old now, i beleive at the time there was an older athlon processor out that was slower
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/7 "2007-08-29T11:24:44Z")
then yes, this would be better.
consider that the monitor alone is worth ~175 - 200, so you’re looking at a decent (todays standards) PC for $200.
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### Author:  [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 12:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/8 "2007-08-29T12:17:05Z")
Good computer but my computer people tell me XP Home is garbage.
Infact any xp is garbage.
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### Author:  [@Violator](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Violator)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 12:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/9 "2007-08-29T12:25:41Z")
[quote=“AWDrifter,post:8,topic:34569"”]
Good computer but my computer people tell me XP Home is garbage.
Infact any xp is garbage.
[/quote]
? wtf ? … VISTA is garbage. XP is fine … the only one that delivers
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### Author:  [@dezod](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dezod)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 12:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/10 "2007-08-29T12:30:10Z")
Great find!
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### Author:  [@Clean\_Baldy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Clean_Baldy)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/11 "2007-08-29T12:32:03Z")
My recommendations.
Get the 6320 4MB cache chip for $140 more. Night and Day difference in performance! I just built a computer with each using identical hardware other than the processor, and on testing… you can see the differences in speed and processing.
$40 upgrade on the 19" LCD to the UltraSharp. I have seen both of these monitors in person. $40 seems like a good deal for the UltraSharp. I stay away from widescreen formats, unless it is 22" or 24". That shrinked screen with a 19" WS LCD sucks. Its like looking at a 16" monitor that is wider. It’s not high enough.
Buy the onboard video option. Go to [newegg.com](http://newegg.com) and BUY the 8600GT for cheaper. Or, whatever video card you want…
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### Author:  [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/12 "2007-08-29T12:38:29Z")
[quote=“Violator,post:9,topic:34569"”]
? wtf ? … VISTA is garbage. XP is fine … the only one that delivers
[/quote]
I don’t know a lot about this stuff but our 2000 computers run waaaaaay better than the newer xp computers.
The windows 2000 computers are basically flawless and the Xp ones are always needing “upgrades” and they still work like shit.
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### Author:  [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 1:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/13 "2007-08-29T13:02:04Z")
These are their new “small business line”
looks like they’re trying to boost sales numbers
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/14 "2007-08-29T13:13:44Z")
[quote=“Adictd2b00st,post:6,topic:34569"”]
64 was the “newer” one right? its prolly about 3 yrs old now, i beleive at the time there was an older athlon processor out that was slower
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Indeed there was. I had a Athlon XP which was a 32 bit processor that basically was a celeron with a little bigger cpu cache from what I remember.
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### Author:  [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/15 "2007-08-29T13:25:34Z")
celeron is NOT amd, bry bry you should know better
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### Author:  [@Penfold](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Penfold)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 1:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/16 "2007-08-29T13:32:14Z")
2000\vista
everything OS ever\> Me
Mac OS\>windows OS
but macs hate me alone and crash on me continuously.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/17 "2007-08-29T15:40:52Z")
holy shit… that is a killer deal for a web browsing computer
> would this run bioshock
probably not very well. it’s multiple cores, but I believe bioshock wants atleast 2ghz.
throw an 8800GT card in it and it would probably do ok
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### Author:  [@ZOMGVTEK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ZOMGVTEK)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/18 "2007-08-29T15:48:10Z")
[quote=“Penfold,post:16,topic:34569"”]
2000\vista
everything OS ever\> Me
Mac OS\>windows OS
but macs hate me alone and crash on me continuously.
[/quote]
Word… Other than it crashing. what do you do? Mine crashed like… once… And that was straight up my fault… haha
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### Author:  [@ZOMGVTEK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ZOMGVTEK)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/19 "2007-08-29T15:48:39Z")
and yes, that comp looks freeking awesome for cheap as hell, 19" lcd with it? Nice…
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### Author:  [@Samsara](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Samsara)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2007, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-wants-a-nice-new-desktop-for-cheap/34569/20 "2007-08-30T09:00:09Z")
If you have a Dell chipset, you can install xp pro with the dell re-installation disk. I have like 5 of those disk if anyone needs them.
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