d00d I got a dell..

So I’ve been looking at getting a new system with my tax return and after looking at building a system and various prebuilts I actually decided to get a HP with an AMD Athlon 3500+ off Compgeeks for around $570 with additional ram and such. The computer ended up selling out and I was forced to look into other options. So I looked at some coupon sites to see what kind of deals I could get on a Dell and I ended up picking a Dimension 5150 with a 3.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4, 512 MB ram, SATA HDD, and free 17 inch Dell flat panel display for $605.00 shipped. I made sure the computer had PCIe so I can ditch the crappy integrated video for a decent card and I plan to add another 512 MB of ram too it shortly after getting it. It’s a bummer I’ll have to dump a little more money into it after getting it but it should scream when I’m done.

For those of you who know me you know I’m an AMD fan, why would I go Intel? Well first off I think I got this box at a heck of a deal. I was looking at some benchmarks and such for this chip and it seems like it should be beefy enough for everything I’m going to throw at it, also this particular chip (the P4 640) is known for it’s ease in over clocking.

So I guess we will see how my experience is with an Intel desktop, I’ve ran nothing but Intel notebooks and they seem to be pretty solid, but then again that isn’t saying much.