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You see you're thinking in terms of Apple thinking for you and telling you what you need rather than the other way around. Video cards are just one thing.

Many professional video types have their systems build to certain specifications.

I was asking you since you claimed it's a vast majority of people who buy rather than build. I know more folk buy rather than build or have built. I'm just asking if you know the ratio since you made the claim

No I pay less and get more.

You can't use your experience with one guy to describe the millions of users who build their own to save money in the long run.

Plenty of advantages. Here's a superficial one. If you don't like the case that Dells come in, you can choose your own. Like I said, some big companies only have a few video card selections, Sometimes they don't even have the top of the line card. You don't even know what type of CD-DVD-R-RW drive ships with the unit from Dell. I mean those components have different capabilities. Some won't even write DVD-RAM disks. Some drives are just plain better than others.

That's why they get someone else to do it. The manufacturer will fix any part that screws up.

Excuse you. I know exactly what I'm doing and only a person who knows nothing would buy a Celeron processor. Celerons are cheaper because they have little or no cache. When doing graphics or other CPU entensive applications, Celerons are slow, damnded slow. Celeron's are cheap processors.

No you twit. I'm talking of an upgrade, the 512 memory is in addition to memory already there.

The video card is rebated if you had read correctly. ATI always has some rebate going. The motherboard is not low end. You are clueless. I guess you haven't seen the trend in motherboards these days. The high end doesn't cost as much any more. The motherboard is a mid-range MB.

Are you smoking sherm? Not one part I mention has less than a three year warranty.

Yep lets look at that manufacturer's warranty. That's three years. It's not an OEM part. In fact the lowest warratny is probably one year. The Video Card and CPU have three year warranties. The Kingston memory has a LIFETIME warranty and that's for their lowest priced memory. When you buy that poo in your Dell you get a ONE YEAR warranty on all the parts. You have to pay extra for more. So it is a deal.

It's an old card that is cheap. One of the cheapest peices of junk ATI puts out.

Since you put so much into how much warranty you get, how much would you pay to get three year warranties on the Dell hardware? Can you even get a lifetime warranty on the memory like my memonry has?

I won't even bother to laugh in your face on this one. You obviously have no idea what this version of XP is and why Dell gives it to you. When you get it, you'll laugh too if you don't get peeed.

Also with that paltry one year warranty, you don't know what the hell is in the Dell. You don't know what kind of motherboard, memory or HD. I can tell you about MBs in those systems. Dell and other big companies are notorious for putting in old MBs that have been upgraded via firmware to accept the newer processors. The MB doesn't have all the features of a factory fresh MB you choose yourself.

Nope I'm right. You were wrong. You just didn't read the part where you get a $50 rebate for the video card from ATI.

First of all when you can tell me who makes the MB, CD-DVD drive and memory, then you can make that claim. I will tell you that CD-DVD-R-RW drives vary in the speeds they can write media from different companies. It's better to get a brand name that has a media compatibility list so you know what media to buy.

Nope. It's not a better deal if you don't know what components you're getting inside that Dell.

Only a fool would say that those products had a 15 day warranty. I tend to think a three year warranty and a lifetime warranty are better than a one year warranty. The warranty says how much confidence the manufacturer has in their product.

I'm not saying Dells are all bad, they're just not as new as ones you build or have built. Chances are the components in that Dell are two or more years old. They designed the computer and it took time to build it. So don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about.

John

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