Dell XPS 430 Aria

Bought a refurbished 430 Aria through a local IT reseller. Excellent machine, not slowed down on me in 6 months. Charger port is a bit iffy following a trip over the cable.

Plenty of power, and a great machine.

if anyone wants to buy a laptop,it should be dell xps 430 aria.its the best one i had used.

Best gaming machine for starters

As everyone knows.Dell always produce the LapTops which are long last for few years.Dell XPS is one of the best series of laptop produced by Dell

FIRST of all i would like to say how pleased i have been

with the constant good service i get from aria.

i find there prices are very competative.

and there delivery service has all ways been on time and well packed

and they have a excellent aria forum :)if you have problems or questions

all in all i give this company a 5+ star rating for service and pricing

TO any one thinking of building a system useing the

dell xps 430 barebones go for it i have built 4 useing this

base unit all you need to add is:-

1.sata dvd/cd optical drive.

2.sata II harddrive any size(has caddys and sata cables for 2 sata drives)

3.LGA 775 socket processor (INTEL E5700 or INTEL Q6600 both work well).

4.ddr3 memory 1066/1333mhz both work fine.

5.basic pci-ex graphics nvida/ati (psu has a 6pin graphics power cable)

if like me you get the system when the price is at around £79 (base unit)

then you can build a fully working VERY NIPPY DDR3 INTEL X48 CHIPSET PC

for around £200 and it does not stop there as if you like the xp os

and have a dell xp install disk sp3 then you can install the xp as it is

a dell motherboard the xp operating system will self activate giving you

a fully activated xp operating system ;)

if you do install xp you will need the below 2 drivers

google dell xps 430 xp sound driver to find a download link

and run this to get the sm buss x48 chipset driver

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=17949&ProdId=861&lang=eng

hope this helps every one

regards jasonking92