Just about to buy dell 8300-does this look all right?

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chaza01

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Included in your system:
PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ i7-2600 Processor (3.40GHz, 8MB) edit

MEMORY 8192MB Dual Channel DDR3 1333MHz [4x2048] Memory edit
OPTICAL DRIVE Blu-Ray ROM combo (Blu-ray read only, DVD, CD read & write) edit
HARD DRIVE 2TB Dual Hard Drive RAID 0 "Stripe" (2x1TB - 7,200 rpm) edit
GRAPHICS CARD NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1.25GB GDDR5 Graphics Card edit
SOUND SOFTWARE Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCIe Card edit
MONITOR 24in ST2420L UK/Irish Full HD WLED Widescreen Monitor (VGA, DVI-D and HDMI) edit

Should I bother with 12 gb of memory? I'll be gaming a bit, HD videos, some minor photo editing using elements....A few windows open at once (6 at most)

Any feedback greatly appreciated!
Charlie
 
voyagerfan99 said:
What are you paying for all of this?
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£1100. I have been stuck with an old dimension 2400 for years, and I decided it was time for an upgrade. I believe there is some deal at the moment (15% off for orders over £499 I think). Does that seem a reasonable price?
Thanks
 
johnb35 said:
Probably upgrade to the 570 or 580 if you have the money. 8gb should be plenty.
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I'm pretty stretched as it is; I should get decent fps on high res with the 560 right? On another note, and I am sorry to pick your brains like this, but how do you 'overclock' your processor/ graphics card? Do you need some extra cooling thingy or would it be perfectly possible without any extra hardware with the dell?

Thank you very much for your feedback
 
Because it's a Dell you won't be able to OC the processor as the BIOS will be locked. Though you could use MSI Afterburner to OC your GPU.
 
along with it being the 2600, meaning you are stuck with a less effective overclocking technique that creates more heat, but that's overpriced as hell compared to building it yourself, and i'm sure this is a better brand but i know this is a better deal

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/syscon_int.php?prodid=FS-282-OK

but you'd want to check ebay for the hdd, then buy from them or another site the monitor and other peripherals cuz it had all the cheaper ones grayed out and all the overpriced ones selectable, and buying the gpu separate might help too with their limited selection.
 
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