Really good price given the specs. Nearly breaks even with the cost of building your own right now (especially given the inflated 570 prices). No idea on the quality of the build though, this is a new product from Dell.
There's also this one which has better specs for $1599: R7 1700X, RX 580 8GB, 8GB 2400 DDR4, 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD
What's better about a 1600 over a 1600x? Agree about the small SSD. But for the price… pretty good value.
It's 9/10ths as good, for less money. Which could be spent elsewhere.
My understanding was that the 1600X costs more than the 1600 and is clocked higher?
@Brucelamao: Exactly but it doesn't come with a free cooler and it's not that much faster. If you're building your own, a 1600, overclocked, with the stock cooler is surprisingly competitive at it's price.
Yeah the Dell comes with the fan, buy presumably they had to pay for that.
It's the same chip that can be overclocked to the 1600x, plus if you're buying it boxed, comes with a CPU cooler.
What has that got to do with this PC?
It means this PC isn't using cost effective components. It's not like Dell doesn't have to buy them from AMD. The CPU is an unnecessary model, the GPU isn't great, the SSD is too small
Says who?
This isn't a custom home build, Dell aren't going to use a lower grade component just to cut costs.
I'm really trying to, but by the sounds if it, you're saying that Dell should have used a lower grade CPU to save money, and then pass that on to that consumer?
@Lorindor: Basically, yes. This is like Dell giving you a machine with 16 cores but a 4 year old video card (not quite that bad …. but like that)
A balanced system within a certain budget makes sense. This machine has a slightly more expensive CPU than it needs, where that money would've been nicer spent on ram or especially C: SSD size.
It's not a bad machine, but I for one, would do it differently.
It's not a bad machine, but I for one, would do it differently.
Right, so would I, but the people that are buying these machines are those that either do not have the knowledge to, or cannot be bothered, so they would rather pay someone else (i.e Dell) for the convenience and piece of mind.
i am looking for a CAD workstation, may do some 3D rendering.
R7 1700X, RX 580 8GB, 8GB 2400 DDR4, 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Dell-New-Inspiron-Gaming-Desktop-…
or i should pay a bit more to get this Dell XPS 8920 Tower Desktop 7th Gen Core i7-7700 16GB RAM 256GB SSD 2TB HDD GTX 1070 with 8GB GDDR5?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Dell-XPS-8920-Tower-Desktop-7th-G…
I wonder if Dell's BIOS will allow overclocking of the CPU?
One of the main problems with Dell, HP, etc is the proprietary power connectors and silly motherboard layout. I was using an i7 HP at work and to put a graphics card in it, it needed a power adapter and another adapter to make the front USB 3 motherboard header low profile, so I just disabled the front USB ports rather than spend $40-50 on the adapter.
And yes, they tend to lock down the BIOS, like the HP Micro Servers that won't allow standby/sleep .
Will you be able to upgrade the RAM to like 32 to 64GB manually on this one?
Be better with a 1600 normal, not the X
2x the disk size on the SSD and a better video card.