Dell OptiPlex 990 Intel i7 3.4GHz Desktop

The most common mobo killer I’ve seen is electrolytic caps. If they pop your mobo is toast. I don’t know what kind of caps this Dell uses, but other than that mobos don’t fail very often.

Help me understand which would be the best deal for someone (me) who is currently running out of RAM with my 2010 wootHPpc 8gb http://tinyurl.com/mna3j6j. I want increased RAM and speed, and need to run two monitors, but don’t care about graphics power (two 19" monitors, one displaying Word and the other Excel, don’t require much graphics muscle).

  1. the computer on woot today (passmark of 8270, 8Gb RAM)

  2. The one recommended by gak0090 above for $510 (Core i7 4770, passmark of 9898; 8Gb RAM)

  3. Costco is selling an HP Envy 700qe http://tinyurl.com/lrte48v with a i7-4770K, passmark of 10237, 16Gb RAM, 2TB hard drive, and “2GB AMD Radeon R7 240 Graphics.” It’s $999, but I see on ebay that I can sell the monitor for $200, so net $799. Is that worth an extra $300 over the first two?

  4. something else?

  5. Would I be best off with one of the first two machines then adding RAM to 12Gb or 16Gb? How much would that cost? I get a new computer about every 5-6 years, so I thought if I’m going to spend money on RAM, I might be better off getting a speedier processor to go with it.

Makes sense these showing up here. I have one of these as my work desktop that the warranty ended in August. It’s been solid for the running multiple ERP’s and sql without issue

here is one more if you need something similar but not quite for$299