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Offline PapaSurf

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Dude, I got a Dell
« on: February 12, 2007, 07:19:13 am »
Apparently Dell is having a nice discount on their AMD based desktops, so I got pretty sweet rig for gaming and multimedia at a reasonable price.

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AMD Athlon x2 5000+
2 gb RAM
250 gb Hard drive
17 inch flatscreen monitor
16x DVD+/CD RW optical drive
Free Vista Home Premium (yay!)
and I'm getting a Geforce 7600 GT off of Newegg

All together, about 949 USD.  Not a bad deal AFAIAC.

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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2007, 07:24:20 am »
I like that processor, makes me jealous :)

god, my gaming rig is starting to age, still have an althon 64 x2 3800+ and a geforce 6600 :( But then again, atleast I have a few big hard drives and 2 gigs ram :)
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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2007, 07:29:35 am »
Google around for special 'programmes' that'll systematically delete all the crap they put on there for you.
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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2007, 07:36:07 am »
Good deal.....You better hope that you can still upgrade past 2 gb.....

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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2007, 07:47:04 am »
My computer has a 40gb HD...

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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2007, 07:59:16 am »
Google around for special 'programmes' that'll systematically delete all the crap they put on there for you.

Yeah, I hate it when computer sellers do that. That is why I always build pc's myself.
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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2007, 08:15:38 am »
I swear this topic title was "Dude, I got aids"... Dell, aids, same thing.

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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2007, 03:01:58 pm »
What kind of crap do you mean? 
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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2007, 03:33:52 pm »
That was a good deal i must say. Have fun with that rigg.

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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2007, 03:38:27 pm »
dell packs a bunch of shitty software on your computer that slows it down.
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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2007, 04:10:13 pm »
dell packs a bunch of ****ty software on your computer that slows it down.

So does Compaq and it takes like 15 minutes to take it off.

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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2007, 05:53:15 pm »
Apparently Dell is having a nice discount on their AMD based desktops, so I got pretty sweet rig for gaming and multimedia at a reasonable price.

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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2007, 05:55:16 pm »
FLAB, what do you mean?  What do you have against Dell comps?  EH!?

Could someone point me in the direction of said "crap_remover.exe"
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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2007, 05:58:10 pm »
I've never used a dell that I though ran anywhere near as well as it should have

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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2007, 08:36:01 pm »
our school computers are dells. save us?

They have good tech support, believe me, within 10 months of getting the damn thing I got to test it out! That was great!
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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #15 on: February 12, 2007, 09:15:35 pm »
Flies just has higher standards than us papa.
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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #16 on: February 12, 2007, 09:57:25 pm »
Could someone point me in the direction of said "crap_remover.exe"

It's Crap Cleaner - http://ccleaner.com
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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #17 on: February 12, 2007, 09:58:33 pm »
hm...i havent heard many good things about dell desktops but thier laptops are good i hear

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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #18 on: February 12, 2007, 10:02:49 pm »
Dell's are great for consumers; the pre-installed junk is easy to remove, they're cheap, and from my experiences reliable.

When my hard drive crashed a few weeks ago (after four years of use) they sent me a new, bigger one the same day for free, and even sent over a guy to install it for me (also free). Say what you will about the company, but that is quality service that really can't be topped.

Then again, the computer in my garage made out of spare parts running Ubuntu has yet to fail me...

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Re: Dude, I got a Dell
« Reply #19 on: February 13, 2007, 07:16:02 am »
Well I would try to put a comp together myself, but I'm not that experienced and knowing me, I would f*** it all up somehow.  Dell has better value than hp and gateway and I already own one of their laptops and i know they have great customer support when my laptop keyboard broke and they sent us a free replacement.

it was really just too good a deal to pass up, especially to my parents.
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