albino boo said:
Antari said:
Agreed 24 gigs of ram is wild overkill. Unless they are planning for half that ram to fail because they bought it on the cheap. But the biggest problem will be it being a Dell. Totally custom non-standard hardware. Good for building a cheap business machine you need 50 of. But its a nightmare for upgrading.
I'm sorry but you factually incorrect. These components are standard, they are not different than the ones that you buy off the shelf. The PSU and will tailored to the power requirements to the off the shelf build and the motherboard will have less PCIE slots than a gigabyte board but you can plug anything into them. That build is ~$700 under cost as components price, a GTX 970 and a 650w PSU will cost $550 Canadian.
Sometimes true, sometimes not. Many Dell prebuilt PC's are internally mirrored. They are identical in terms of specs, but in many common upgrade cases (such as upgrading a video card) you cannot mix a dell prebuilt with standard parts. This one does not look like this is the case though.
And Dell, as well as most prebuilt desktop pc manufactures, tend to use low quality parts.
I would not buy this PC. Bad part balance and lack of an ssd are big problems. It is running 24 gb of ram which is way, way more than any game even thinks of needing at this point and it is using a $500 processor, which just isn't needed for games right now. And yet it is running a $100 video card that will soon be very outdated. It doesn't seem excessively over priced exactly, but you are paying for a lot of hardware you do not need for gaming, and you are not going to be running new games at high settings even now.
To see the point, look at this site:
http://www.logicalincrements.com/#!/
Notice how your graphics card, the gtx 750, is sitting way up at the top in "fair"? That makes it a card recommended for budget gaming PCs. It is a really solid card for what it is, but you will notice that at this tier the entire PC would cost just over $400, about $500 with OS. On the other hand, your CPU is sitting down in the enthusiast tier, and even in the enthusiast tier they still recommend only 16 gb of ram. This is a massive mismatch of parts.
Overall you are getting an extremely imbalanced gaming rig, resulting in middling quality until you fix the imbalance ($600 minimum if I am any judge.) It will perform about as well as a $550 gaming rig (including OS) if you were to build it yourself.
But I do have the technical skills to build my own, so I don't know how prebuilt computers tend to run, it might be a good deal if you are intent on not building your own. If you can upgrade the video card and add an ssd down the line then it should be reasonably future proof, though that also depends on the motherboard (prebuilts are notorious for skimping on the motherboard), which we have no real information about.
Other thing to consider: That CPU is going to run hot at 4.0 ghz, I would bet real money this computer is quite loud. You will probably have to invest in a minimum of $60-$70 worth of actually good heat dissipation hardware (heat sink and fans) to solve the problem, which you will have to install yourself.
