I'm impressed considering it's a floor model and that cost.

A few months ago I ditched the 7yo ticking time bomb for a Dell too as I get free ship and a nice corporate discount. I put down a cap of $900 on it. I got that quad core you did at the same 2.4ghz. Mine has also the 3GB of ram, but my drive is 500GB. I have a DVDRW burner and a CDRW/DVD combo drive in place, the 19in1 card reader, a 256MB Radeon HD 2600XT card, on board 5.1 audio, the mouse, keyb, basic speakers, and the same Vista you have too.

The nice thing about it is that how I left it (and you did) there's plenty of room later to upgrade it within some damn good room for improvement. I am unsure where the mobo caps itself ram wise, but as is there's an empty spot for another 1GB to go in there at the least. Both of us can get a much nicer audio card if needed too, and you have the extra bay for another disc drive or something. And then of course the video card both us could go much higher on and those make a world of difference once a computer starts feeling slow (as does ram.)

My 7yo piece of shit felt like new about 4 years into it with doubling the ram and getting a 64MB video card (and then within the lat 6mo of its life the 128MB again.) Eventually you do hit a wall, but this computer and yours should do for a good while.

Oh and SilentAce is right about Vista. The rep it gets for being complete shit is when some dumb fuck runs it on 1GB of ram because it's god awful then. 2GB will do it pretty damn smoothly with no issues, but at 3GB like us and above it'll fly and without problems. I've yet to hit an issue with it and while I can't go as far as saying I prefer it over XPs layout, I do so love the living shortcut bar the start button has become (type in like 3 letters from some app you want and it'll pop up.)


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