Need Help, I customize DELL PC and see if you can help me get similar model/part for.

[brentrich]

Hi, I'm hoping someone will help me with this. I spoke to Dell expert and he said this is 3rd gen. high end cpu. XPS 8500. It's one of the best selling computer right now. I did some customize and I was wondering if you can see if this is a good price to buy or is there similar part for cheaper price. I'll list the computer that I customize from dell.com

OPERATING SYSTEM Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English
MICROSOFT OFFICE Microsoft® Office Starter: reduced-functionality Word & Excel w/ ads. No PowerPoint or Outlook
MEMORY 12GB Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz - 4 DIMMs
HARD DRIVE 1TB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive 6.0 Gb/s
VIDEO CARD NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 640 1GB GDDR5
OPTICAL DRIVE 16X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW), write to CD/DVD
KEYBOARD Dell KB213 Wired Multimedia Keyboard
MOUSE Dell Laser Mouse

ALSO INCLUDED WITH YOUR SYSTEM
XPS 8500 XPS 8500
Chassis XPS 8500, Black Chassis w/19:1 media card reader
PROCESSORS 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3770 processor (up to 3.90 GHz)
MONITOR No Monitor
SPEAKERS No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system)
WIRELESS Dell Wireless 1703 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.0+LE
SOUND CARD Integrated 7.1 with WAVE MAXXAudio 4
USB 3.0 Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet
Dell Datasafe DataSafe 2.0 Online Backup 2GB for 1 year
Adobe Reader Adobe® Acrobat® X Reader Multi-Language
Ship Material Shipping Material, Direct
Wireless Driver Dell SRV Software 1703
Documentation English/French Documentation
Additional Software Additional Software
Optical SW No PDVD
Power Cord US Power Cord

Total cost is $949.00 Free shipping.

Is it worth to buy this or can i get cheaper price, if so can you link me all accessories part if that's okay. Also I have a question about video card, Which is the best video card for gaming and design as photoshop, Indesign, etc. Nvidia or AMD Radeon. Thanks!

[glo]

Depends where you're from, what your budget is, and if you're willing to build your own.

[brentrich]

I'm from New York and my budget is around 1k. I'm just curious to see if it's cheaper to build on my own or not.

[n0cturnal]

This is pretty much what you get in that Dell package.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-3770 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($259.99 @ Microcenter)
Motherboard: ASRock B75M Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($72.55 @ Newegg)
Memory: Pareema 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($40.99 @ Newegg)
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($81.00 @ Newegg)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GT 640 2GB Video Card ($99.98 @ NCIX US)
Case: BitFenix Merc Alpha ATX Mid Tower Case ($36.40 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair 430W ATX12V Power Supply ($24.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NS90 DVD/CD Writer ($16.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit) ($98.98 @ Outlet PC)
Keyboard: Rosewill RK-200 Wired Standard Keyboard ($6.99 @ Newegg)
Mouse: Kingwin KW-03 Wired Optical Mouse ($3.98 @ Outlet PC)
Total: $742.84
(Prices include shipping and discounts when available.)

[glo]

I'm from New York and my budget is around 1k. I'm just curious to see if it's cheaper to build on my own or not.

Well, the video card in that desktop is terrible for gaming. Like, really bad. You're better off building your own with a gaming capable card.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

This is pretty much what you get in that Dell package.

Except that Dell gets windows 7 licenses for much less than 99 bucks each because they buy 10000s of them at once, so that increases the difference by even more.

edit:

This is what you can get for 1000 dollars, and it will definitely outperform that Dell:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($189.99 @ Microcenter)
Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($114.99 @ Microcenter)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($53.99 @ Newegg)
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($109.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: Asus Radeon HD 7850 2GB Video Card ($249.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Antec Three Hundred Illusion ATX Mid Tower Case ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($69.64 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NS90 DVD/CD Writer ($16.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit) ($98.98 @ Outlet PC)
Total: $974.55
(Prices include shipping and discounts when available.)