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London
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Hi, I hope this is the right place to ask this question, please forgive me if it's not. I want to buy a new Dell PC so I have been doing a bit of research (searching Google and this forum) but I'm still unsure what processor to go for. I don't know much about the inside of computers which is a bit ironic seeing as I make a living from the internet. 
Any advice would be much appreciated.
I plan on having Windows Vista Home Premium as my operating system.
Here's the spec of the 2 Dell computers I've been looking at...
PC 1 (Dimension E521)
320GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst cache
2048MB Dual Channel DDR2 533MHz [2x1024] Memory
256MB ATI Radeon X1300 Pro graphics card
Network Card: Integrated 10/100 NIC
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
or pay an extra £82.25 for...
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core processor 5600+
PC 2 (Dimension 9200)
320GB Serial ATA RAID 0 Stripe [2x160GB 7200rpm drives with DataBurst cache]
2048MB Dual Channel DDR2 667MHz [4x512] Memory OR 2048MB Dual Channel DDR2 667MHz [2x1024] Memory (Both cost the same??)
256MB nVidia GeForce 7900GS graphics card
Network Card: Integrated Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000
Intel Viiv Core 2 Duo E6300 Processor (1.86GHz, 1066MHz, 2MB)
or pay an extra £52.87 for...
Intel Viiv Core 2 Duo E6400 Processor (2.13GHz, 1066MHz, 2MB)
or pay an extra £164.50 for...
Intel Viiv Core 2 Duo E6600 Processor (2.4GHz, 1066MHz, 4MB)
Both PCs are on this page... http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/produc...;l=en&s=dhs (Right of page)
Also, is 2x1024 better than 4x512?
I plan to buy one today as it's the last day of the current offers. I hope I have given enough details (and not too much). I would like to know your opinions on what system you think I should go for. Do you think it's worth going for the more expensive processors?
Many thanks in advance for your help and of course your time 
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PC 1 (Dimension E521)
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PC 2 (Dimension 9200)
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Edited by London (Wed Feb 07 2007 08:14 AM)
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Mouse
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If it was me, I'd go with the AMD Athlon processors, because I've had three on 2 different PCs and one on my laptop and never had any issues with them, the only time I've had an Intel laptop and the thing died on me.
Although I prefer nVidia for Graphics cards, ATi are more or less the same and if you aren't a gamer it won't matter either way.
2 sticks of memory will be better than 4 due to the fact that you will have 2 free slots over the other. Although the memory is slightly slower than that of the 2nd PC.
I assume PC 2 is more expensive than PC 1?
End of the day it all balls down to what you want from your PC and either decision you go for will be right.
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Nerval
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For what it's worth, I go with AMD as well. Never had a problem with them and I find them better value for money.
In general use, you'd probably not tell the difference between the two machines anyway.
If you were a hardline gamer, you wouldn't be asking anyway 
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