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Dell Inspiron 530 |
| Date: |
04.03.08 (833 review reads) |
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Advantages: Cheap,Can be made to users Specs,Quiet
Disadvantages: Motherboard not having enough connections PS2 IDE Small PSU
First thing i thought when i got one of these Computers is that it looks good,nice size a decent midi tomwer coated in silver and black a new Look for Dell Maybe.The DVD Writer is Hidden by the Case with the flip down doors which make the case look quite nice there is also a Multi Format Memory Card Reader and a Spare 5.25" Drive Bay could be handy if you fancy getting a Blu Ray Drive in the future(Dell Charge Extra £150 For this).
This computer Came with a 22" LCD nothing bad to say about it it seems perfect for what i use it for.
The mouse and keyboard are both USB on it aswell because there is no PS2 Connections on the back of this PC all there is on the back fo the motherboard are 4 USB Connections a LAN and the sound Inputs.
When i Turned it on the First thing i was amazed by was the noise it made which was none it is so quiet and you can hardly tell that the thing it turned on.
I got this system made off the dell website and the specs for the comuputer are as follows:
Intel® ViivTM CoreTM 2 Duo processor (2.66GHz, 1333MHz, 6MB cache
2gb DDR2 SDRAM
250GB Sata Hard Drive
DVD ReWriter (SATA)
256MB ATI® RadeonTM HD 2600 XT
Windows Vista Home Basic
I didnt like Windows Vista on this Computer as i wanted it for games so i put Windows XP Pro onto it. The Graphics card is not excellent but it handles Battlefield 2 on medium Quality settings,I wouls say that the graphics card is the worst thing that dell have put into this pc.
Dell Have only put a 300Watt power Supply in to this tower but it is very quiet so i am happy for now.I Will probably have to upgrade the PSU when i get a better graphics card.
The motherboard is Intel g33 Chipset and it only has SATA connections onboard so you can not connect any of your IDE Drives to it.
I would say that this is a very cheap computer but the specs are good enough to run vista and perfect for home users,wouldnt reccomend getting Vista on this but its your choice.
You will also have to pay extra off dell if yiuo are wanting wireless on this system.
The Processor Laughs at Converting AVI Files of 700 mb with Win AVI it completes it in under 15minites(My ATHLON 4200 x2 Does this in 20 Mins) and it has nostrain while you are doing this there is a lot of process power in this.
I think that the Motherboard Dell has put in to this computer is to cheap and would be a lto better with a higher end model.Apart from this i would reccomend
Summary: Reccomend to users on a tight budget
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