Hows this DELL PC deal? XPS 8500 $1889

carlitos on 21/11/2012 - 00:38

http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/3_day…

Check out the specs:

XPS 8500 Desktop

  • Processor: 3rd Generation Intel® CoreTM i7-3770 processor (3.40 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 3.90 GHz)
  • Operating System: Windows 8, English (64bit)
  • Memory: 16GB2 Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz
  • Hard Drive: 256GB SSD+2TB SATA Hard Drive 7200 RPM
  • Display: No Monitor
  • Video Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660 1.5GB GDDR5
  • Optical Drive: Blu-ray Combo Drive (BD-R, DVD+/-RW), Write to CD/DVD
  • Warranty: 1Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosisx

Not a bad deal?

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Comments

  • tonyjzx on 21/11/2012 - 00:44

    ok deal for what it is

    obviously there's a lot less than $1,800 worth of parts… closer to $1,200 maybe?

    but you're paying for the name and service

  • scrimshaw on 21/11/2012 - 00:47

    Bloody oath! Talk about premium pricing. I also don't see any deals in that page that are particularly attractive, then again Dell is usually fairly expensive to begin with.

    What do you intend to use it for? If it's purely for gaming I think you can drop that Core i7, since the video card is the main bottleneck anyway.

  • ethereal88 on 21/11/2012 - 07:17

    Massive rip. Its worth no more than $1100, and is completely retarded in terms of specs - you don't need an i7, a 660 is meh, a 670/80 is way better, and I guarantee the PSU is a piece of crap. RIP. Avoid. Build it yourself.

  • WT on 21/11/2012 - 11:54

    so easy to put a pc together

    For $1100-1200 you can put together a good 1080p gaming pc

    If your just gonna browse/facebook/pron this is way overkill.

    $330 for the cpy
    $120 for entry level mobo, $220 for good sli/overclockable one
    $95 ram
    $170-$200 for a decent ssd
    $79 for 2tb hdd
    GTX 660, not that great, 7850/7870 is better value in this price range
    optical drive, redundant, but $59 if you want one to use it once a year
    PSU $75 for like an antec 650w
    case, depends what you want, budget anything from $30 for crap to $120 for entry level nice.
    windows 8? Just use the $0 windows 7 until something better comes along

    Hardest thing about building a pc you can just google/youtube (probably installing the cpu so you dont bend pins and front in/out which isnt hard, just means you need to open the instructions and read it.

  • tonyjzx on 21/11/2012 - 12:58
    +1

    its an XPS… world famous gaming desktop

    they also come to your house for any repair

    you pay for that

    i personally wouldnt

  • AussieMark on 03/03/2013 - 22:23

    i got the above specs all exactly the same except 8 gigs of ram instead of 12 for $1199 from Dell with the -$400 off discount a couple of days ago

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