Getting a new desk top, it was about time !

Ok so i have had this 1ghz amd athlon sony vaio desktop for 5 years w/ windows 2000, and it had its good and its bads...but its all worn out so the lady and i decided to get a new desktop from dell.....i figured i'd just share the specs of the one we confiugured and ordered

Dell Dimension 5100 w/ a free 19 inch analog flat screen total was $1,100 (finaced)

Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 630 w/HT Technology (3.0GHz,800FSB)

Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center 2005 Edition

512MB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 400MHz (2x256M)

80GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)

Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW w/dbl layer write capability


Combo: Sonic DigitalMedia and MyDVD Plus (DVD+RW only)

3.5 in Floppy Drive

19 inch E193FP Analog Flat Panel (free)

128MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon X300 SE HyperMemory



and some other usaul stuff......

Nice job, should skip along quite happily for you.
Though I'd be happier for you with 1024MB (as I already said on IM)

I would also recommend the book, "Windows XP Annoyances", by O'Reilly- just in case.

You can also enter 64 bit computing if you want, but probably has no dos support, and does not have 16 bit support (Windows 3.1) and even has a 32 bit emulator .

Ha kinda nice I hate dell as the saying goes "dude you got HELL" Well

for 1,200 this is wat i got

AMD 4200 X2 64BIT(DUAL CORE)

mSI K8NEO SLI

xfx NVIDA 6800GT PCI EXPRESS 16X

2gIGS OF DDR400 ULTRA LOW LATENCY RAM

WINDOWS XP PRO 64 BIT eDITION

dvd ROM AND DVD BURNER

AND A 250GIG sata II hard drive

no monitor have one here.

oww you I built it

with the thermal take xaser case

The pentium right next to me that serves my site is a Sony VAIO pcg-130, from 1997.

4mb vram on the ati mach64, video capture, 200mhz pentium with mmx, zip drive, this thing was blazing. It could run 1600x1200 at 16bpp (I used 1024x768 at 32) when everyone else had 640x480 at 256colors.

A nice machine, and still works. I guess that's what $2,000 would get you back in 1997.