Let do this by comparing the important parts
Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-K8N Ultra-9 Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra
Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-SLI nForce4 Ultra SLI
OEM ASUS - I believe this what dell comes with
Abit KV-80 VIA K8M800
The win goes to the 2 gigabytes motherboards. Performance they about the same between the GA-K8N Ultra-9 and Ultra-SLI. If you ever plan to use SLI then the GA-K8N Ultra-SLI better otherwise it does not matter.
CPU
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1GHz
AMD ATHLON64 4000+
Pentium® 4 Processor 630
AMD® Athlon-64 3000+
Athlon 64 4000+ am going to say is the best cpu out of those. THe pentium would be better in mutistasking but the athlon 64 3000+ better for gaming. So secound place will be a tie between all 3.
Video card
Geforce 6800GT
ATI RADEON X800 256MB
ATI Radeon™ X850 XT
Nvidia GeForce 6600-GT 128MB
This a tough call but I would say the x850 XT is the best video card out of those. Secound the 6800 GT.
RAM
Ram in all you getting 1gb of memory and DDR2 not really much of a advantage so I giving a tie for all of them
Other none system parts
Monitor
1.SAMSUNG 710N-BK Black 17" 12ms LCD Monitor - Retail
Games:
Half Life 2 PC Game SIERRA - Retail
Guild Wars PC Game NCSOFT - Retail
2. FujiPlus FP568 15" TFT LCD Monitor (2TONE - BLK/SIL)
3. Monitors FREE UPGRADE! 17 inch E173FP Analog Flat Panel
4.LCD Monitor Optiquest 17" TFT LCD Monitor [Black]
Half Life 2
Here I give the win to the custom build which I think clearly have the most expensive monitor and 2 games.
CONCLUSION
The easiest decision is that number 4 the wrost so we scratch that one off.
Only thing dell got going for it is the video card. The video card is definally not worth $100 more then a 6800GT so we cross that one off.
That leaves the custom built and cyberpowersystem. It get a little tricky here. While custom build you clearly get the better monitor(I could never use a 15" monitor my self) and you get a better video card. The cyberpowersystem got the SLI motherboard going for it and the better cpu. I going to make the final decision by calculating cost differces
Highest cost wins
Custom
Athlon 64 3000+ $146
GIGABYTE GA-K8N Ultra-9 $129
xfx 6800GT $284
17" samsung monitor $255
cheaper from other system by $103
Total: $917
Cyberpower
athlon 64 4000+ $473
x800 $194
GIGABYTE GA-K8N Ultra-sli $134
x800 $194
15" LCD monitor $160
Total: $961
Hmm only a $50 difference that really did not help. Well it comes down to this then
1. what more important to you CPU or Video card?
2. do you want to put it togeather?
3. Could you stand using a 15" monitor?
