I would have to agree, having bought what I considered a 2.6 ghz Dell at a very reasonable price (300 UKP) and finding out after the event that the only gfx expansion possible is to upgrade the 64mb integrated job with an 128mb card through PCI. Alternatively, I could fork out for a new mobo and decent AGP card.
Okay, Dell perhaps weren't marketing this box as a games machine (to be fair its barely cuckoo-spit above a secretary's desktop) but those sort of ill-considered build decisions are unlikely to find a charitable audience in Joe Gamer.
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I would have to agree, having bought what I considered a 2.6 ghz Dell at a very reasonable price (300 UKP) and finding out after the event that the only gfx expansion possible is to upgrade the 64mb integrated job with an 128mb card through PCI. Alternatively, I could fork out for a new mobo and decent AGP card. Okay, Dell perhaps weren't marketing this box as a games machine (to be fair its barely cuckoo-spit above a secretary's desktop) but those sort of ill-considered build decisions are unlikely to find a charitable audience in Joe Gamer.
Sounds almost exactly like the Tiltboys. If ever there were a bunch of harder gamblers, I haven't heard about it.