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Need Dell Desktop Computer Advice

196 181 January 1, 2024 at 05:25 PM
Hi there, I have $600 from the amex plat cards I need to use asap at Dell.com

We need a new desktop computer. I hate getting ripped off. I'd rather not buy one with such short notice but I'm going to be cancelling my card soon so I want to take advantage of the credit.

Can you point out a good desktop computer for me for less than 1k? The closer to $6-800 even better but willing to spend up to 1k including tax.

Not for gaming. Need it so I can keep open 40 tabs at once if needed. Would love to be able to edit some home movies on it. Maybe run photoshop but otherwise basically just using quick books, word, excel.

Thank you for any input. I really don't know what to buy but I know there is so much knowledge here.
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01-02-2024 at 02:48 AM.
01-02-2024 at 02:48 AM.
Hi there. I spent a few minutes searching dells site including their refurbished site and this is by far the best deal. It includes an i5 13400 which has a Passmark score of 25,000 which is a lot, think of it like buying a car that has a big powerful V-8 engine, but it doesn't use a lot of gas. It has 16gb memory and 1TB storage. For 650$. They had other systems that were much slower and way less memory and storage for 100$ less which isn't worth the savings even if you bought your own memory and storage and upgraded that yourself.

The downside is 16gb is a single stick running single channel memory which does effect performance. But I bet you could load up a program called speccy, goto the memory tab, find the model number memory, its most likely a Samsung or sk hynix 16GB DDR4 3200mhz memory and you could go on eBay and find one of those for 30$ and upgrade your memory to 32gb, you would get dual channel memory which would improve performance by 15-20%. Upgrading a memory stick is pretty easy, I'm sure there is a tutorial somewhere on how to do it on YouTube

It says it has a pci express 16x slot but most likely for low profile low wattage GPUs only. I think Intel has a cheap low wattage low profile GPU for around 100$ that would be a giant upgrade over the onboard graphics.

So this computer has some expandability

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/d...ts3020gcrd
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