Custom built or Dell? What is the best you can get for your money?

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

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