Is this pc any good?

I don't really see what the issues with Dell are. It'd be exactly the same computer if I bought the parts separately and assembled my computer from scratch. You've still got a manufacturer's warranty and the specs are very nice (especially that CPU). If cooling's honestly going to be an issue, buy a new case as well (which should only set you back ~100 Euros) and rebuild it in that. Oh, and as loony said, try getting Win7 Pro 64-bit so you can utilize the extra RAM while maintaining compatibility.

 

I guess you are right, cooling won't be an issue. But I was also wondering if the stuff in the pc are worth the price.

 

Cooling will likely be an issue with the i7, not going to lie. Intel processors run hot and I'm unfamiliar with the current Dell cases.

Best way to test pricing is to look up each component (don't forget Windows 7 Pro) separately and make a total cost for buying and assembling it from scratch (use the custom case for calculations). Most countries have some sort of price comparison website where you can compare costs across vendors. If it's around the same price and you're uncomfortable with building it yourself, buy it from Dell and get someone you trust with a thousand euros of PC gear to replace the casing. If you know what you're doing and the prices are similar, order the parts individually and build it straight into the custom case.

 

Noted, but what are you referring to by non-standard parts?

 

This is way better than my PC

 

It's not BAD.

Not top-of-line, but definitely a pc to buy, it'd be like a 8/10. (mines like... a 5/10 at most)

 

Amazing features really good for gaming but umm the fact that its a dell kinda makes me uncomfortable.

 

The videocard is outdated and the processor isnt worth the price for games. Build you own PC. It is so much cheaper and you get better specs.
Get a AMD quadcore or hexacore if you want. They are much cheaper than intel and you wont get much more power out of them in games.
What videocard you take depends on the resolution of you monitor. For 1920x1080 you wont have a lot of fun with the gts260. I would recommend a HD5850 but if you really want to have nvidia get a gtx470.
Building a PC urself is always better!!

 

I thought the processor was the best one on the market for gaming and other stuff.

 

I guess you have no idea!
First a gtx 280 is a lot of stronger than a gts260. But they are both from the old generation. They only support DirectX 10. HD5xx and gt4xx support directx11! So if you want to play future games with high settings you will need a Dx11 card.
Second Monitor Resolution is so relevant in games:
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,696250/Radeon-HD-5850-reviewed-The-DirectX-11-bargain/Reviews/?page=7
Switch the Resolution from 1280x1024 to 1980x1080. You will loose nearly half of the fps. And i guess all of those cards do have more than 256 vram.

Now to the processor.
If you say more than 2 cores are useless for games, than you must also add that the hyperthreading of the i7 is useless in games eigher.
But some games do support 4 cores and in the future more and more will do. Try playing bad company 2 with a dual core. Not much fun. So if you buy a new PC i would recommend at least a quadcore.
The i7s are only usefull if you want to use your computer as a server or something like that.

Probably it gives you 5 more fps in some games but in others a amd X4 can do 5 more fps. But and amd processor is about 50-100 euro cheaper.

 

So is an AMD quadcore better for games?

 

And i thought you just need 1 core for a single use, like if you just plan to use your comp for gaming, you just need 1 core...

Um, if i'm playing a game and i have a quadcore, does that mean, my comp is using all the cores just for a game? Is gaming multitasking?

Cause i though you need more cores if your doing more things at the same time, like typing, while surfing the net, while listening to mp3 and playing solitaire and video editing.... all at the same time...

 

That might be true, but then he shouldnt pay so much money for that PC if there is only a old and"cheap" videocard and a useless multicore processor in it?
If you are an IT professional why do you say stuff like monitor resolution is irelevant, because that is definetly wrong!

It depends on how much cores the application can use. Games like Bad Company 2 do use 1 core for sound 1 for physix and so on.

I would say you get more power for a lot of less money^^

 

Good, looks like I got a bargain

 

My laptop could have run all the latest games at full speed if it wasn't for this GODDAMN INTEL 950!!!!! intel duo core at 2.6 GHZ, 2 gigabytes of RAM and oh what's that? intel 950 you say? YOUR COMPUTER SUCKS AT GAMING GO GET A NEW GRAPHICS CARD!

 

Octocore, they have those now?
Sorry that's the only thing I really got out of your post Loony...

I don't see why people need 2-4 cores for games. I can play a lot of the newer games on decent settings on my Dell, with a 3GHZ pentium 4.