Hello all:I am toying with purchasing the following system. What do you think? Is this a good buy? It appears Dell is making way for the Gen 5 XPS due to the 30% off offer. Thanks!!Dell XPS Gen 4Intel 660 3.61GB DDR2 SDRAM160 GB 7200 RPMDVD-ROM256 PCI express GeForce 6800$1687 USDThanks again!!

Looks good. Kind of expensive, does it come with a monitor at all?

Hi Jimmi! I'm pleased to hear from somebody from Sweden!! I have recently discovered the music of Robert Wells! Must be nice to be able to go to his concerts (if it's your type of music that is). Anyway, a 19" flat crt is pricing in at $80 additional USD. I currently have a P4 2.0, 512 RDRAM, Ti4800 NVIDIA graphics card. It is just not adequate to run what I wish to run. I take it you are an AMD fan? I have never used AMD to run FS. I read all of this great reporting on how wonderful they are. What are your thoughts on this?John

I am not a fan of Dell at all. Very expensive for their "gaming rigs" and general low quality both in term of hardware and support.I would definiatly recommend you get an AMD based system if gaming is the most demanding tasks you will use your computer for. It will give you except superior performance in 32-bit games also give you the ability to run X64 which actually does help even for 32-bit games :).Now if you would want to run it now depends a bit on how much add ons you run. X64 doesn

Thanks for the info! Which system builders would you recommend? Which sites would you consider? It seems that the cost of parts alone in comparison to just purchasing a pre-assembled system doesn't justify a homebuilt. I am a long time fan of PIC 767 and am now looking to run the level D product, and I would like to get a system that acutally runs PMDG's stuff (737-X00) without falling flat on it's face. RegardsJohn

Actually just got a very similar system 2 weeks ago and it performs very well. I got the P4 660 3.6Ghz with a 160 gig SATA HDD , the ATI 850XTPE 256 meg PCI Express and 1 gig of DDR2 at 533Mhz. As for quality,the RAM was Samsung,HDD Seagate , optical drives were Samsung and the sound card was an Audigy 2 ZS. Was surprised that the parts were actually quality brand names. Everything has run great so far .Chris

Okay for fun I put up a computer for you. Now this one was just a rush job just picked components that would be similar in performance and featureshttp://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/shoppi...p?BundleExist=NNow as you seen I throwed in a 6800GT which is much higher performing then a 6800 256 but also I didn

Thanks!! The only problem is I cannot view the cart. Could you post what you put together? Thanks very much!!John

It works for me? Maybe only yourself can view it? I will take a screenshot on it

I purchased a Dell 8400 about 2 months ago and had a terrible time with the PC intially and Dells horrible outsourced Tech non-support. I finally got the system stabilized after over 2 months, on my own. The next time, I would definetly have someone build a system for me, rather than buying a PC from a company like Dell.

http://www.imageparker.com/thumbs/oqvist/computer2.jpg does this work?You will had to ad the CPU. I find a real nice http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16819103539Don

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Thanks for the posts guys!!John