Dell Dimension XPS w/20.1 in 2001FP Dell Ultrasharp™ Digital Flat Panel Display
Monday, January 12, 2004 by Firedogs Ron Son Jose | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
3.20 GHz Intel® Pentium® 4, Extreme Edition Processor 800MHz w/ HT Technology, Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional, 1GB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 400MHz, NEW 500GB RAID 0 (2 x 250GB SATA HDDs), 20.1 in 2001FP Dell Ultrasharp™ Digital Flat Panel Display, NEW 256MB DDR ATI RADEON™ 9800 XT + the little stuff. So, at $5,400 +- this should work well w/WinCustomize?
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The DJ
Reply #22 Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:58 PM
Reply #22 Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:58 PM
You also might want to wait till PCI Exprees becomes the new standard and replaces AGP8X. Like DesignCaddy said, there is also the 64bit processors.
Firedogs Ron Son Jose
Reply #23 Wednesday, January 14, 2004 10:03 AM
Reply #23 Wednesday, January 14, 2004 10:03 AM
For The DJ: Thanks for your comments; well-taken.
Hus
Reply #24 Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:54 AM
Reply #24 Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:54 AM
What I wanna know is...if you're willing to drop $5k on a PC...why on earth would you buy it from Dell??
Some links to better help you on your quest for a decent PC.
http://www.alienware.com
http://www.falcon-nw.com
http://www.voodoopc.com
Atleast buy it from those one of those guys!
Some links to better help you on your quest for a decent PC.
http://www.alienware.com
http://www.falcon-nw.com
http://www.voodoopc.com
Atleast buy it from those one of those guys!
IPlural
Reply #25 Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:08 PM
Reply #25 Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:08 PM
maybe beause of the TRW on site and drop shipment support with total system swap if it needs to be sent into the shop? unless that isn't included in the price?
Firedogs Ron Son Jose
Reply #26 Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:18 PM
Reply #26 Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:18 PM
For Sir Hus: I took a quick look at each. Wow, I never thought that such existed. It will take me some time to look over each. Hey, thanks much for this direction. As to the first link, you must listen to Art Bell.
wickedmaidtoall
Reply #27 Wednesday, January 14, 2004 8:36 PM
Reply #27 Wednesday, January 14, 2004 8:36 PM
hey that is what I have and wait until they put the flat screen on the upgrade and you get it for free lol
also it comes in just three days not 10 but I only have the xp not the prof and that knocked some of the price off
also it comes in just three days not 10 but I only have the xp not the prof and that knocked some of the price off
Firedogs Ron Son Jose
Reply #28 Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:11 PM
Reply #28 Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:11 PM
For wickenmaidtoall: Which one do you have? And so, if you purchase the upgrades...as they are now...you would get the upgrade(s) for free? Alienware looked real nice as did Voodoo PC. I was not too impressed with Falcon Northwest though.
kongit
Reply #29 Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:27 AM
Reply #29 Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:27 AM
if you got money just floating around this is about the best.
http://www.go-l.com/store/hardware/machl38.htm
http://www.go-l.com/store/hardware/machl38.htm
EventHorizon
Reply #30 Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:48 AM
Reply #30 Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:48 AM
An entire terabyte of HDD space on the 'extreme'?
Can you spell 'overkill'?
Can you spell 'overkill'?
kona0197
Reply #32 Thursday, January 15, 2004 1:15 AM
depends. i could probably fill that all up with mp3s with this big cd collection I have.
Reply #32 Thursday, January 15, 2004 1:15 AM
| An entire terabyte of HDD space on the 'extreme'? Can you spell 'overkill'? |
depends. i could probably fill that all up with mp3s with this big cd collection I have.
EventHorizon
Reply #33 Thursday, January 15, 2004 2:37 AM
Reply #33 Thursday, January 15, 2004 2:37 AM
Oh yeah? 
Ok, 1 Terabyte is 1024 Gigabytes... which in turn equals 1,048,576 Megabytes...
Assuming that your average Mp3 is 3 Megabytes, youd have room for around 350,000 songs...Or about 17,500 CD's worth of music...(at 20 songs per disc)
Unless youre doing some serious movie creation/editing...I see no reason for that much space...
Ok, 1 Terabyte is 1024 Gigabytes... which in turn equals 1,048,576 Megabytes...
Assuming that your average Mp3 is 3 Megabytes, youd have room for around 350,000 songs...Or about 17,500 CD's worth of music...(at 20 songs per disc)
Unless youre doing some serious movie creation/editing...I see no reason for that much space...
DesignCaddy
Reply #34 Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:00 PM
Reply #34 Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:00 PM
in video editing, you find that GB's are like MG's. they get eaten up really god damn fast. or, if you happen to be storing a divx collection. 30 movies isn't uncommon, and thats around 30 gigs. i had, before my wma-mp3 conversion dissaster, 30 gigs of wma's..now we're up to 60 gigs, 20 gigs of programs, 80, another 20 gigs of games, thats 100. i could use a couple terradrives and never have to worry about storage again.
joetheblow
Reply #35 Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:05 PM
Reply #35 Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:05 PM
I might need something like that...
From Photoshop to Illitrator files to Adobe Premiere, 3D Studio, AutoCAD, MYA and AfterEffects.
From MicroMedia's Director 8.0 (or higher) and MX apps to designing web apps in VB and C++
Then you get Stardocks' Desktop X2 Pro designs, Windowblinds folders, IconPakager and developer and so on PLUS any and all other apps (WinAMP, WMP, Word, PowerPoint, MP3's, et al), I might need a system like the one he has.
Can't afford it... yet. My goal is next year this time. Probably be a dell too like this gentelman.
joetheblow is lusting over the power and strength of the formentioned computer
From Photoshop to Illitrator files to Adobe Premiere, 3D Studio, AutoCAD, MYA and AfterEffects.
From MicroMedia's Director 8.0 (or higher) and MX apps to designing web apps in VB and C++
Then you get Stardocks' Desktop X2 Pro designs, Windowblinds folders, IconPakager and developer and so on PLUS any and all other apps (WinAMP, WMP, Word, PowerPoint, MP3's, et al), I might need a system like the one he has.
Can't afford it... yet. My goal is next year this time. Probably be a dell too like this gentelman.
joetheblow is lusting over the power and strength of the formentioned computer
joetheblow
Reply #36 Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:13 PM
Reply #36 Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:13 PM
Oh and don't foget that downloading movies from pay to watch sites will also be on your hard drive.
I am not sure if a program like Partition Magic works on RIAD (probably doesn't... and its possible that you don't need it anyway if you have RIAD) but it would be good to check on programs like it to see if your hard drive can preform better.
I am not sure if a program like Partition Magic works on RIAD (probably doesn't... and its possible that you don't need it anyway if you have RIAD) but it would be good to check on programs like it to see if your hard drive can preform better.
joetheblow
Reply #37 Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:12 PM
Reply #37 Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:12 PM
and games too... I forgot about games.
I personally only want a couple of them but after4 or 5 games you can take up 10 gigs. My Train Simulator gams takes up 3gigs and that is before I started making new routes.
I personally only want a couple of them but after4 or 5 games you can take up 10 gigs. My Train Simulator gams takes up 3gigs and that is before I started making new routes.
ToeJo
Reply #38 Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:59 PM
Reply #38 Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:59 PM
I just got my XPS 3Gig with 2Gig of Ram and the 19inch LCD. It is awesome!!! 
Performance is exceptional, display is amazing, and the Radeon 9800 works awesome. I'm copying my DVD's from the rental store,
Making my own DVD's from the family outings, I use it as a Tivo machine and burn the episodes I record to DVD. And Games...Don't get me started.
I love it...and it wasn't 5k. (But it was still too expensive) I am abundantly blessed with it!
Performance is exceptional, display is amazing, and the Radeon 9800 works awesome. I'm copying my DVD's from the rental store,
Making my own DVD's from the family outings, I use it as a Tivo machine and burn the episodes I record to DVD. And Games...Don't get me started.I love it...and it wasn't 5k. (But it was still too expensive) I am abundantly blessed with it!
DesignCaddy
Reply #39 Thursday, January 15, 2004 6:48 PM
Reply #39 Thursday, January 15, 2004 6:48 PM
anyone using the new 'm' chips from intel? IT guy at work got a new laptop today with one of em.. said it tops out at 1.7ghz but had so much push, and was so small and cool, that it was choice for the price.
IPlural
Reply #40 Thursday, January 15, 2004 7:10 PM
Reply #40 Thursday, January 15, 2004 7:10 PM
yeah, on one right now, we've two P4-m ThinkPads in the house, wife's T-30 and my R-32....
Plugged in it is 1.6ghz unplugged it is runing at 899mhtz...
Plugged in it is 1.6ghz unplugged it is runing at 899mhtz...
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Reply #21 Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:55 PM