Opinions...again?
New PC...again?
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 by Armbut | Discussion: Personal Computing
Okay...I posted a forum post a while back that asked for recommendations and opinions on a possible PC that I was going to get. I knocked that one out of the way and now have my eye on another. I think it is a fairly good deal, I just want a second (or more) opinion. Thanks and here are the specs:
Main Specs:
Processor: Dual Core-AMD Athlon 4200+ (2.2GHz)
RAM: 1GB PC4200 DDR2 SDRAM
Optical Drive: Double-Layer DVD+/-RW
Hard Disk: 320GB Hard Drive (SATA, 7200RPM)
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 6100
Software:
Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium
Other: CyberLink PowerDVD, Quick Burning (NTI CD-Maker Gold), Adobe Reader 6.0
Input Devices:
Keyboard: USB Multimedia Keyboard*
Mouse: USB Optical Mouse*
Output Devices:
Display: 19" Widescreen LCD-TFT Monitor
Printer: Photo Printer*
Misc. :
CPU Cache: 512KB, 512KB on Die level 2
RAM Expansion: 4GB
Video Memory: 256MB (Shared)
Networking: Gigabit Ethernet
Expansion Slots: 3PCI, 1 PCIe1x, 1 PCIe16x, 3 DIMM
USB: 8 (4 front, 4 rear)
Serial: 1
Parallel: 1
I'll upgrade the RAM (to 2GB) and Video Card (to a PCIe card) when I get a chance.
Main Specs:
Processor: Dual Core-AMD Athlon 4200+ (2.2GHz)
RAM: 1GB PC4200 DDR2 SDRAM
Optical Drive: Double-Layer DVD+/-RW
Hard Disk: 320GB Hard Drive (SATA, 7200RPM)
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 6100
Software:
Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium
Other: CyberLink PowerDVD, Quick Burning (NTI CD-Maker Gold), Adobe Reader 6.0
Input Devices:
Keyboard: USB Multimedia Keyboard*
Mouse: USB Optical Mouse*
Output Devices:
Display: 19" Widescreen LCD-TFT Monitor
Printer: Photo Printer*
Misc. :
CPU Cache: 512KB, 512KB on Die level 2
RAM Expansion: 4GB
Video Memory: 256MB (Shared)
Networking: Gigabit Ethernet
Expansion Slots: 3PCI, 1 PCIe1x, 1 PCIe16x, 3 DIMM
USB: 8 (4 front, 4 rear)
Serial: 1
Parallel: 1
I'll upgrade the RAM (to 2GB) and Video Card (to a PCIe card) when I get a chance.
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #2 Wednesday, February 7, 2007 1:27 PM
Reply #2 Wednesday, February 7, 2007 1:27 PM
The only change I would make is to increase ram to 2GB - I speak from experience here. My pc, running Ultimate, currently has only 1064Mb free out of 2Gb...
Jafo
Reply #3 Wednesday, February 7, 2007 6:15 PM
Reply #3 Wednesday, February 7, 2007 6:15 PM
I'll upgrade the RAM (to 2GB) and Video Card (to a PCIe card) when I get a chance.
Good plan....
greywar
Reply #4 Wednesday, February 7, 2007 6:55 PM
Reply #4 Wednesday, February 7, 2007 6:55 PM
The video card wis the bottleneck as you already pointed out. Additionally there seems to be a crop of driver problems prventing many games from working with Vista especially using Nvidia chips.
Armbut
Reply #5 Thursday, February 8, 2007 3:12 PM
Reply #5 Thursday, February 8, 2007 3:12 PM
Okay, thanks for all the comments guys. The price tag (that i forgot to mention) is $679.97
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Reply #1 Wednesday, February 7, 2007 12:54 PM