I was talking to a friend about comparing a Dell for £1000 and a custom built PC for £1000 and we soon started getting into specifics about what would be better. So I put some extra research into it, to try and find out - what is better, for £1000?
The Dell
The Dell we’re going with is the Dell Dimension 9200. It comes with:
- A Dell BTX case
- a 16x DVD writer
- 2.4 GHz Intel core 2 due e6600
- 2gb pc2-6400 memory
- Dell p965 motherboard
- 375W PSU
- Dell keyboard and optical mouse
- Dell E207WFP 20.1 inch monitor
- 2 x 250gb sata seagate barracua 7200.10 (in raid 0)
- Vista Home Premium
- GeForce 8600gts 265mb graphics card
- AverMedia Hybrid Analogue/Digital TV tuner
- Creative sound blaster X-FiXtreme
The total cost of this Dell is £979 including vat
The Custom Jobbie
- Antec Nine Hundred
- 2gb crucial ballistix bl2kit12864a804 pc2-6400
- Pioneer dvr 112dbk 18x writer
- 2.13GHz intel core 2 due e6420
- Tuniq Tower 120 heatsink fan
- Abit IP35 motherboard
- 600w silver power sp-600a2c psu
- Asus geforce 8800 gts 320mb
- Microsoft Windows Vista Premium
- 320gb sata hitachi deckstar t7k500
- Microsoft multimedia keyboard
- Microsoft Habu mouse
Total cost : 996.74 inc vat (but not delivery)
The overall winner: The £1000 custom pc would have to win overall. The dell is still a great machine, comes with far better support and guarantees, but just isn’t as fast.
Disclaimier: Work based upon Custom PC mag’s similar investivation. Heads up to them