Proposed new system

[baldk9 3]

I am thinking of buying this system from a major manufacturer and would like comments for additions or substitutions. Thks: Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English W7HP61E [318-0455][330-6097][330-9083][420-6436][420-6576][420-7938][420-9691][420-9841][421-2087][421-3645][421-4047][421-4117][421-4582][421-4652][421-5577][421-5693][421-5953][421-6194] Processors Intel® Core™i7-960 processor(8MB L2 Cache, 3.20GHz) RXI7960 [317-4597] Memory 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 4 DIMMs 8G1334D [317-4907] Keyboard Dell Consumer Multimedia Keyboard SMMK [331-0659] Monitor No Monitor N [320-7810] Video Card AMD Radeon™ HD 6670 1GB DDR5 AT6670 [320-2982] Hard Drive 1.5TB - SATA-II, 3Gb/s, 7,200 RPM, 32MB Cache HDD 1500S [342-1299] Mouse Dell Laser Mouse 6BTNLM [330-1158] Network Card Standard USB 2.0 + 10/100/1000 Ethernet N [430-3840] Modem No Dial Up Modem Option N [313-3137] Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader AAREAD [410-0547] Optical Drives Blu-ray Combo Drive (8X BD-R, DVD+/-RW) with DVD+R double layer write capability BDCOMBO [313-9731][421-3844][421-4542] Sound THX® TruStudio PC™ THX [421-9898] Speakers No Speaker Option N [313-2198] Office Productivity Software (Pre-Installed) Microsoft® Office Starter: reduced-functionality Word & Excel w/ ads. No PowerPoint or Outlook DSTART [410-0450] Security Software McAfee SecurityCenter, 15-Months MCEM15M [410-0569] Hardware Support Services 1 Year Basic Support T1O [420-8878][923-9307][933-0390][934-8750][950-3337][950-9797] Datasafe DataSafe 2.0 Online Backup 2GB for 1 year DSO2G [421-4356][927-2357][988-0099] Trusted ID Trusted ID,IDSafe, 12 Month Subscription, Digital Delivery

[MrKen 3]

How much?

[baldk9 3]

$1600

[MrKen 3]

ripoff. It'd be cheaper to build an i5 2500k system which would substantially outperform that.

[ZachLW 37]

I can send you my old i7 960 system with very, very similar hardware for about 2/3 the price or less of that. That really just isn't a good deal at all Richard. Dell really makes a killing selling hardware like that at that price.

[baldk9 3]

Thanks everyone I'll reconsoder my options.