Am I making the right choice?

[Chrisx]

This is a mouth full so get ready! Just like to say if im posting this in the wrong thread sorry,it was the only I found right.


Greetings!
Recently I purchased a dell xps 720 h2c,one of highest performance machines out there from dell. I had been using dells all my life so I generally trusted there prices etc. People allways told me "dell sucks" etc. I usually really never listened to people about that becuase I hear people say everything sucks. Well unfortunatly I learned that dell really does rip you off. With custom choices my machine I selected for the 720 h2c,had 4 gigs 2x8800GTX,2.93(ocd to 3.73) q 6800 quad core extreme proccesor and a 680 SLi motherboard. all for a low price of 7k!(moniter included)
Really I wasnt disappionted with the machine at all it performed well on games like Gears of War , Call of Duty 4 ,Crysis (decently on crysis) I was happy then I was toying with the internet one day and found a well known website that sells custom gaming computers.I browsed in and chose the greatest options I can possibly fathom! 3 way sli with 8800 ultras! 9650 extreme proccesor at 3ghz! 4 gigs with heat spreader , liquid cooler , a nice gaming hard drive . I thought to myself "heh this comp will be atleast 10k" all to find out it was 5.8k?! with a 28 inch monitor?
Quick to say I gave dell a nice little call asking to return my PC for a refund,and its possible. So basically my question is should I get this new PC i'll list the specs. Tell me if there is anything that is a complete waste of money,somehting that wont work well,something useless , if there is new hardware coming out in the next few weeks. I really dont have much time to find this stuff out and have never been in to all the techs about PC,I know the basics.

Apevia X-Telstar Aluminum Full Tower 420W Case w/ Temp Display and Fan Control

Thermaltake W0133RU ToughPower 1,200 Watts Power Supply - Quad SLI Ready

(Quad-Core)Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme QX9650 @ 3.00GHz 1333FSB 12MB L2 Cache 64-bit,should I get amd?

Asetek Liquid CPU Cooling System (Extreme Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA)(Asetek Liquid CPU Cooling System (Extreme Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA))

(3-Way SLI & QX9650 Support) Asus Striker II Formula nForce 780i SLI Mainboard FSB1333 DDR2 3 x PCIe X16 SATA RAID w/ USB2.0,IEEE1394,&7.1Audio

(Req.DDR2 MainBoard)4GB (2x2GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory(Corsair XMS2 Xtreme Memory w/ Heat Spreader) Heat spreader worth getting?

x3 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MB 16X PCI Express(EVGA Powered by NVIDIA

Extreme Performance (RAID-0) with 4 Identical Hard Drives
146GB (36.7GBx4) Gaming Western Digital Rapter 10,000RPM SATA150 16MB Cache WD360ADFD

200GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM Hard Drive

(x2) 20X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER

3D WAVE ON-BOARD 5.1 SOUND CARD

Vista Home 64 bit

 

[oscaryu1]

Build it yourself. Much cheaper. But the above is a great build. Just add a Fatality in and it's going.

 

[Chrisx]

Fatality? What is that? thank you for your advice but im not a computer guy and I understand Id save maybe a thousand or so dollars building it my self but I dont have he time for that or the knowledge.

thank you

 

[oscaryu1]

It's a sound card. 5.1 onboard isn't going to get you far.

 

[porterjw]

all for a low price of 7k!(moniter included)

I'm sorry to have to post this, but aren't there more pressing things you could do with $7k than buy a computer? I have several small business Clients that didn't spend that much total for the entire office.

 

[Chrisx]

I'm sorry to have to post this, but aren't there more pressing things you could do with $7k than buy a computer? I have several small business Clients that didn't spend that much total for the entire office.

Maybe you did not read the entire post,I am most likely going to return it.

 

[porterjw]

I did read the entire Post. The fact the the money was spent to begin with is what floored me. Different people = different priorities, though, I suppose.

 

[Chrisx]

I did read the entire Post. The fact the the money was spent to begin with is what floored me. Different people = different priorities, though, I suppose.

Exactly

 

[Desfer]

Damn... those prices... I'd buy myself a car

 

[daisymtc]

You recently purchase from dell...When did you bought it.
QX9650 was out in Nov. 780i MB only out recently. It might not be dell fault, just the Hardware moving too fast.

 

[twitchtwice]

what are you going to use this thing for?

 

[oscaryu1]

what are you going to use this thing for?

Most likely gaming and regular work, judging by his first post.