Dell Vostro 3900 desktop, Core i5 4460 quadcore 3.2 GHz - 4 GB ram - 500 GB hard drive, intel HD graphics, DVD drive, HDMI and VGA ports. Back down to a sensible price. Win 7Pro / Win 8Pro licence and W10Pro free upgrade and believe it or not, it has PS2 keyboard/mouse ports for older legacy items that businesses may use (KVM etc) Model: 1K6CF - currently £269.98 from Laptops Direct with delivery from £4.95 or local collection.
While this isn't the latest cutting edge i5 CPU, it is a decent performer and sells for £150 on its own. Comes with Windows 7 Pro loaded as downgrade rights option (no install disc provided) - it comes with Win8.1 Pro licence and install DVD (W8.1 Pro allows for downgrade to W7 Pro) and of course free upgrade to Win10 Pro, your choice. £15 buys you another 4GB ram from Crucial memory and it has a couple of PCI/PCI-E slots for upgrades (unlike some lower cost desktops)
I don't think it comes with the 19in1 card reader despite it showing. Supplied with USB Keyboard & wired mouse, W8.1Pro install DVD and utilities DVD and a IEC power lead.
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captainbeaky
28 May 164#53
Thank you for your apology. I'm still writing to the Daily Mail. I thought I would start my letter with
"I'm not a racist but ..."
musical
28 May 164#11
The new Asus 75w card fits easily, is quiet and overclocks to 1400 MHz processor and 7 Ghz memory without any need to upgrade case or PSU.
The new 75W GTX 950 cards do NOT require additional power.
musical
28 May 164#9
I've added an Asus gtx 950, one of the new 75W PCI powered cards and it works absolutely fine. I'm fact, when gaming it runs perfectly overclocked to 1400MHz processor and 7GHz memory. Delivers over 60 fps in Mad Max at 1080 for instance. That's powering an additional £75 480 GB SSD, £15 4 GB RAM and charging/powering 2 Xbox controllers, Xbox wireless receiver, Bluetooth and wireless mouse dongles.
It might be cheap but my PC is certainly not slow. Upgrade to Windows 10 was quick and free.
spannerzone
28 May 163#30
Out of interest, a quick PC parts picker basket comes to £404 for the most basic components to build the same sort of spec PC yourself. http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/PjcgXH
Whenever anyone compares their home builds they nearly always do not factor in the operating system cost and the usual response is that you can get it free or for £15 from dubious sources. If you are comparing like for like you have to factor that cost in unless you're going the linux route or have a transferable Windows retail licence. I know there are workarounds with OEM but again, to compare like for like they should show the real costs. PCPartspicker shows this quite nicely and the clear reality is that you could not buy the same components as this Dell for anywhere near the same price, although I am happy to be corrected if someone can.
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spannerzone
27 May 16#1
Yes our trusty desktop the Dell Vostro i5 4460 is back at a decent price again, comes with W7 Pro installed, W8.1Pro on DVD and naturally free upgrade to W10 Pro. Cheap decent performing desktop, bung in a 120GB SSD for £25 and this thing flies.... bung in another 4GB ram from Crucial for around £15.
2% cashback via TCB or Quidco
spannerzone
27 May 161#2
Lots of discussion on the old deals posted, info on what's inside, how to upgrade to SSD and such like shenanigans... a great performing desktop for those of us that still find desktops a daily necessity! Previous Deal with lots of info #1 Deal #2
Blasphemous
28 May 161#3
Hot from me. Spanner, you're becoming the new "Dell Deals Dude"! :smile:
Midge
28 May 161#4
Looks good.
brendanhickey
28 May 16#5
there isnt much capacity in the power supply to use the pci slots without upgrading that, so i wouldn't buy if you plan on adding a graphics card. the hard drive doesn't state if its 5400 RPM or 7,200 RPM. if its 5400 its going to be frustratingly slow. i just dont think your going to be keeping this machine long before wanting to upgrade to something better.
spannerzone to brendanhickey
28 May 162#19
Sorry but that's just a lot of ill informed nonsense!:laughing: This will be fine for anyone other than gamers and even then it'll happily take a graphics card that doesn't require additional power connectors as discussed above, it can take a second hard drive and second optical drive (4 sata ports) - the hard drive is a 7200rpm. It will be fine for a typical home or office user and probably be fine for another 5 years minimum.
Consider a Core2duo from 2008 is still a usable desktop, especially if you have an SSD drive in it, it's safe to say this PC will be fine.
Ideally you'd buy this and immedietley install an SSD drive for the OS to get very fast bootup, fast program startup and a really nippy machine. If you use the supplied mechanical hard drive then yes it'll take 60 seconds to boot up, whirr, click, whirr etc :smile:
jizzer
28 May 161#6
got mine last time round added extra ram a 240gb ssd and an icy box multi card reader that plugs into the rear 3.0usb port which then extends it to the front....boots up in less than 10 seconds now and so quiet ...upgraded to win10 pro too ....excellent
muttyhc
28 May 162#7
can you put a gpu in e.g gtx 950?
Nbaker
28 May 16#8
I'm looking at doing the same, The processor is very good for this price.
The power supply is only 300Watt and the GTX 950 requires 350Watt (and a 6pin connector from the PSU which i don't know if it has), it may also be a non-standard PSU to fit the mini case.
Worse case scenario, by a new case for £20 and stick a better Power Supply in for £40-60 and you've got a decent rig on a budget. You'd also get a huge speed boost loading time wise if you splashed out for an SSD too.
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While this isn't the latest cutting edge i5 CPU, it is a decent performer and sells for £150 on its own. Comes with Windows 7 Pro loaded as downgrade rights option (no install disc provided) - it comes with Win8.1 Pro licence and install DVD (W8.1 Pro allows for downgrade to W7 Pro) and of course free upgrade to Win10 Pro, your choice. £15 buys you another 4GB ram from Crucial memory and it has a couple of PCI/PCI-E slots for upgrades (unlike some lower cost desktops)
I don't think it comes with the 19in1 card reader despite it showing. Supplied with USB Keyboard & wired mouse, W8.1Pro install DVD and utilities DVD and a IEC power lead.
Top comments
"I'm not a racist but ..."
The new 75W GTX 950 cards do NOT require additional power.
It might be cheap but my PC is certainly not slow. Upgrade to Windows 10 was quick and free.
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/PjcgXH
Whenever anyone compares their home builds they nearly always do not factor in the operating system cost and the usual response is that you can get it free or for £15 from dubious sources. If you are comparing like for like you have to factor that cost in unless you're going the linux route or have a transferable Windows retail licence. I know there are workarounds with OEM but again, to compare like for like they should show the real costs. PCPartspicker shows this quite nicely and the clear reality is that you could not buy the same components as this Dell for anywhere near the same price, although I am happy to be corrected if someone can.
All comments (69)
2% cashback via TCB or Quidco
Previous Deal with lots of info #1
Deal #2
Consider a Core2duo from 2008 is still a usable desktop, especially if you have an SSD drive in it, it's safe to say this PC will be fine.
Ideally you'd buy this and immedietley install an SSD drive for the OS to get very fast bootup, fast program startup and a really nippy machine. If you use the supplied mechanical hard drive then yes it'll take 60 seconds to boot up, whirr, click, whirr etc :smile:
The power supply is only 300Watt and the GTX 950 requires 350Watt (and a 6pin connector from the PSU which i don't know if it has), it may also be a non-standard PSU to fit the mini case.
Worse case scenario, by a new case for £20 and stick a better Power Supply in for £40-60 and you've got a decent rig on a budget. You'd also get a huge speed boost loading time wise if you splashed out for an SSD too.