Considering Lenovo For First Time, Others Experience with K410 and K330B

Hi everyone I am shopping for a new desktop. My 7 year old Dell Dimension 4700 died and am now shopping. I am looking to spend around $300 which I know is a pretty basic machine but for my needs(web surfing,quicken, word processing,low graphic games,burning dvds,listening to cds) that should be fine.
I like the flexibility that my Dell had with both DVD burner and CD rom drives and have wanted to have a second hard drive on whatever I end up with so I can separate the OS from the data.
From my researching it seems that my best options are either a refurb Ideacenre K410 or K330B which I've seen on the Lenovo outlet website listed for $281 and $287 respectively ) I don't hink Dell is what it used to be and the Hp's at this price seem to be very basic in terms of the MB used.
Otherwise I'm considering building my own as I have a brand new 400w ps, a barely used ATA drive(which I know would need an adapter),a still functioning SATA HD,a functional DVD burner and CDROM.Would need to buy mb,cpu,case, fan and basic sound card. But with a copy of windows 7 it is easily at least at $300 so it makes wonder if one of the above Lenovos is a better option.
I have read different things about Lenovo support and reliability so I'm not sure what to think.
So my questions are what are others experiences with these 2 desktops and also how reliable has your Lenovo been.Also others experience with refurbs would be helpful.
Sorry this is so long but I could really use help.
Thanks

LenovoDad wrote:
Yes, I also uninstalled Diskeeper.
Like Centex, I'm curious why you did that? It doesn't sound like you chose to install an alternate like PerfectDisk instead.
Re the data partition you mention, Lenovo tried that with the ideaPad with somewhat mixed results on their first effort. Perhaps an improved version will be available in the future.
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