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Dell Dimension 4300 review

Wednesday 1 March 2006, 5:38 AM

It is good, but a little bad too


I bought my machine in July 2001. I wish it had come with two DVD R-W drive instead of the original CD/DVD combo, so I could burn DVDs and CDs both.

THe RAM was very low too, 124MB and the capacity 512MB is just above average. The gforce2 max Video card gave the blue screen when I played games like HALO and FARCRY so I had to change it to 124MB Card.
I had to to also put wireless card also. Most annoying is the fan noise.

The machine has capacity of 100 GB but it comes with a average size 37 GB drive. I experienced that the machine really slows down like the lifeless wicket of Faisalabad when I try to use my TV card on it.

6/10 for performance, 5/10 for graphics and gameplay.
overall 5.5/10

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Dell Dimension 4300



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Overview

Dell Dimension 4300

Editors rating
Rating: 6.2
Verdict

A good value mid-range PC that introduces Intel's 845 chipset and SDRAM to the Pentium 4 processor.

Typical price

£ 999

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