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Is This Good Value for a Desktop?

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Deal Guru
Oct 6, 2007
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Kootenays

Is This Good Value for a Desktop?

My Inspiron 530 is starting to give me grief. It stopped sending power to the monitor last night so we swapped out the video card from my son's idle desktop and it came back. This morning, it took 3 or 4 power cycles to get it to boot. It's an older Q6600 with 3gb ram still running Vista that I've added a 500gb SSD to. It does all that I need. Dell Refurb has a 50% off sale on Precisions right now, soo I can get :
Cosmetic Grade A
Model Dell Precision T3600
Operating System 64-bit Windows 7 Pro
Software Not Included
Chassis Tower
Processor 1x Xeon Quad Core (E5-1603) 2.80 GHz
Memory 4 GB (2x 2GB)
Hard Drive 250 GB (1x 250GB)
Optical Detail DVDRW
Video(Video cables and adapters not included) Nvidia Quadro 600 (1024 MB)
LAN 10/100/1000
Ports Video (depending on video card), RJ-45, 1x Serial, 2x PS/2, 8x USB 2.0, 2x USB 3.0, Audio

delivered all in for $442. I'd like to add my SSD. Worth it? TIA
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Deal Expert
Aug 2, 2004
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East Gwillimbury
Not worth it unless you need a Xeon. Doesn't sound like you need it.

You can probably find something new for the same price as the Dell refurb
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Oct 13, 2002
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What are you planning to run on this computer ?
Deal Expert
Aug 2, 2004
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East Gwillimbury
willy wrote: What are you planning to run on this computer ?
He is currently using a Q6600 with 3 Gigs of RAM and Vista. I doubt he would consider upgrading if his 10 year old computer wasn't dying.

It is safe to say that his needs are very basic.
Deal Guru
Oct 6, 2007
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Kootenays
Very safe to say. Yes, basic needs with a bit of photo editing and possibly a second monitor occasionally. Either way, I've already ordered it.

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