Which System To Go For?

Let me know what you think of it when you get it.

I checked and they are already giving the 35% off.

I'm in a hard spot because I want that Widescreen monitor but they are having problems with them and won't start shipping the fixed versions until after July 5th.

I believe the deal on the E 510 ends tomorrow.

I guess it'll be on sale again at some point. Rumors are that once Conroe is released in about a month all the other chips will go down so we should see even better prices.

I will try to let you know. my specs are farely similar 2 gig ram 3.2 PD x600HM 19 inch ultrasharp 160gig HD.

I know the problem with the dell 2007WFP is the color banding isue. dell is probably tring to fix it... I heard it was jjust a software/firmware issue, but if you want to see what the pannel looks like the apple 20inch is simaler (they use the same pannels

Good luck on the purchase ill try to post when i get the machine.

Guess I'll have to wait another week or get the Gateway because Dell's new deals are crap. That same system I had price around 1350 is now 1700.

Forget that LOL...I would go buy a high end gaming PC for that at Gateway

Do they always change their deals every Thur?

Now that my Dell got ridiculously expensive I was looking at I've starting looking at the Gateway system at Best Buy. Here are the specs on it.

Gateway
AMD AthlonTM 64 X2 2.0GHz 2000MHz BUS
Win Media Center 2005
1GB Ram
250 GB HDD
300 Watt Power Supply
NVIDIA GeForce 6100 128 MB Shared
21? Gateway FPD2185W Widescreen
$1400.00

I thought about it and we order Gateways at work so I contacted my guy there and he quoted me this system:

Gateway
Pentium D 940 3.2 GHz 800 MHz FSB
Win Media Center 2005
1 GB RAM
200 GB HDD
400 Watt Power Supply
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 with 128MB, DVI, VGA, & TV-Out
Chipset ATI Xpress 200 Chipset with DDR2 Support
21? Gateway FPD2185W Widescreen
$1537.98

Other stuff I didn't put down are pretty much the same.

My Uses:

I'll play some strategy games (About all I play on PC)

Warcraft III
Battle for Middle Earth
Black and White
Empire at Wars.

I don't even game that often though so the most of what I'll be doing is:
Normal Use/Making DVD's Including Rendering and everthing. I also like to make graphics with Photoshop.

Opinions?

here is a small review. (feal free to ask questions)

My specs: Intel 940, 2 gig ram, x600, 160 gig HD, 19 inch ultrasharp,
~$1000

Pros- Scilent (cant tell if its on or off), Fast... more on taht later, very good looking (i like the white), with the ultrasharp panel alot of USB ports, an seams to run cool

Cons- No firewire, no cad reader (not a bigie for me), Video card could be better, price without a coupon is crazy.. (i had a coupon)

Review...
I started it up i was "wowed" by its speed. it booted fast and it was scilent if you place your ear by it you here a small fan but thats it. My model had no bussing and blowing no "FX 5800 Ultra"ing. the loadest part was when the 7200RPM HD fires up.
next,being the BF2 freak i am i fired the thing up with BF2. it loaded fast...... i started it and i play it on medium/high seting with native 1200 res. it is silky and great for me (remeber i moved up from a gefoce 5200). but it felt like 40FPS though i didnt run fraps and have no desire to.
i am going to run photoshop on it although i have not. I am sure it will run fast hehe cant wait! im loving every moment with this computer.
i have always had great experences with dell and i do like the company. this computer was build in one day and shiped in 2. i bought it with 3-5 day shiping =).
the ultrasharp FP is amazing need a say more?

well all i can say is happy buying, i was happy with the purchase! well I dont realy like this keyboard they gave me, weird feal... but other then that i think this si the computer for me.

I'm kicking myself for not hopping on this while it was still a good deal. Even though they are still giving $350.00 off the price of it it seems like they raised the price of all the component upgrades which is making it much more expensive. It's looking like for $200 more dollars I can get the Gateway system with their widescreen. It's not looking good for dell's WS monitors. Still all kinds of problem in DVI even with the new ones. I've decided if I don't see any better deals my early next week I'm probably going to get the one the guy at Gateway quoted me.

Keep us updated on your thoughts of the E510 in the coming days.

first i am running the 19 incher im running in DVI it looks great! But you want the 20 inch widescreen correct? right now im loading World of Warcraft and i will load photoshop and AOE3 in the coming days. AOE will be similar to what u are geting so ill try that... but as i said i love it.

How does photoshop run? That's something I'll probably use quite a bit.

The more I think about it the gateway direct will prob be the winner.

Alot are saying go AMD for games but I like XP pro and would probably upgrade it eventually but Media Center can't be upgraded so I would have to buy it down the road. I think I'll save more money in the long run if I get the PD system with the better graphics card.

How much RAM did you get on yours? I'm think I might get 1 GB Ram and add more myself.

That gatewat PD looked preaty nice. All of the people are saying go AMD for games without a high end vid card you wont notice a diference at all in games.
im going to load Photoshop now so ill post later on that.
about the Media Center OS, I realy like it. it has already made a useful interface for me.

Ohh and by the way I got 2 gig RAM.

I started up elements 4 ( a nice piece of software) and first thing i noticed was its quick start up time. When i got in photoshop i quickly opened a picture and started using endless filters on it. there were quick but it seamed teh same as my regualar P4 3.2. as i did more it seamed to hold up unlike my P4 that would halt. the PD940 jsut kept going... looking at CPU usage photoshop set its self to do all the filters on the second CPU it was calulating as my other one was free to do, whatever. then i used the bandade thingy tool to try to get my RAM usage up. it ran nicely didnt get my CPU close to half, and didnt use anymore tehn 512 RAM. so those were my 20 mins with photoshop. ask questions if need be.

and also i just heard the AMD cpus have had compatibility isues with many things. (heard this in Newegg customer reviews)

I think I'm getting really close to pulling the trigger..I do more of these type of things anways...not gaming.

I read some apps have issue with the Dual Core but then you just have to set that app to run on one core only and it works fine.

Pentium D 940
Win XP Pro
2 gig RAM
80 gig HD
20 inch wide
256MB x600
then the reg speakers mouse and keyboard

Go to
Products
Desktops
savings spotlight (at the bottomish)
then click on the E510
change what you wish
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sorry for double posting
Sorry for posting so much
and lastly sorry for my bad grammer

Good luck!

My E510 (pentium D 940) ITS 940 runs very cool..... also he already bought the gateway....

I talked with a Colonel out on base today - he's got that. Says it runs hotter than he expected. He's got his 1st Sargent Computer Guru installing a new processor fan as we speak.
Carry on.
I know all about the BTX Case - I'm sitting right next to one - with a brand new drive bay fan it that I installed today. My temps were running 104 - 112 F. My temps have not exceeded 97 F after leaving the system on for the past 12 hours and multitasking my system to death.
You tell me.

So far so good. I received my system and it's working great. Man does this thing load Photoshop fast.

I installed Warcraft III and it works fine. I actually stretches the game to widescreen and it looks fine to me.

I'm very happy with my purchase so far.


The only negative thing I've found so far was the nice keyboard they sent was PS/2 and not USB and the cord was really short...