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Is this a good spec PC for the money?
JsT
Posts: 18,268 Skive's The Limit
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A simple Yes/No this one. Need to buy a new PC sharpish. Have seen this for sale with the same company I bought my last PC from, called cube247, who've had some good reviews, plus the last PC was too notch. They have this going for £558.99. What does everyone reckon?
- Pentium 4 3.2GHz 64bit
- 1GB Corsair DDR400 Ram
- 120GB Seagate HD + 80GB Seagate HD
- ATI Deluxe Motherboard
- 16x48 DVD CD ROM Drive
- NEC ND3540 DVD ReWriter
- Floppy Drive
- ATI Radeon x300 PCI-Xpress 128MB Graphics
- 5.1 Surround Sound
- 8x USB2 ports
- Firewire
- 10/100 LAN card
- 7 in 1 Card Reader
To me it seems like a bargain, what does everyone reckon?
- Pentium 4 3.2GHz 64bit
- 1GB Corsair DDR400 Ram
- 120GB Seagate HD + 80GB Seagate HD
- ATI Deluxe Motherboard
- 16x48 DVD CD ROM Drive
- NEC ND3540 DVD ReWriter
- Floppy Drive
- ATI Radeon x300 PCI-Xpress 128MB Graphics
- 5.1 Surround Sound
- 8x USB2 ports
- Firewire
- 10/100 LAN card
- 7 in 1 Card Reader
To me it seems like a bargain, what does everyone reckon?
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But otherwise the specs for the price are more than alright.
Fair enough. It is still a good offer.
It really isn't hard to build a PC, read around and you'll see how easy it actually is.
I agree with what's been said about Intel, try and go with AMD. Also what the heck is that motherboard, you don't want one of those, this is where they make their profit, by selling you very cheap parts for an exceptional price! Also never heard of that graphics card and I wouldn't expect alot from it.
Only weak point of that one is the GFX card really. Is there an option for a better one?
8 is now quite common and not that many at all...
Let's say you have a printer, a scanner, a digital camera, a mp3 player, a USB keyboard and mouse and a webcam, well you are already at 7 USB port use.
Add to that a joystick, a joypad...
JsT, do you have have any computer geek mates? Might be worth going over the figures. I would do it except Im realllllllllllly tired atm. I'm off to bed. If I get a chance I'll have a look tomorrow, but yea, if you think it's a good deal then go for it . What will you be needing it for anyway?
Go fer it, if you aren't building one yourself! It's a powerful rig.
so 8 really isnt that big a number at all
I know. I thought it was... but my mouse and KB are USB, add my joystick, mp3, irda, webcam...
It's amazing how quick the bastards get used up! At least I can add in 4 more if I please... making it 10 USB!
4 Port USB hub IN a monitor? Thats mad! But rather awesome.
Oh yes. I forgot my keyboard had a built in USB hub... sadly unpowered, so only for devices that either have their own power or don't draw alot, so 2 more in the keyboard.
I want that monitor now though.
i have broadband connection, pendrive, external hdd, printer, external dvdrw, cable for my mp3 player and cable for my camera connected to mine.
I wish I ad 8 USB ports
got 2 printers, scanne, USB mouse, USB datcables, USB sound card and USB TV Card
8 is nothing
not sure about having two small Hard drives and 2 cd/DVD drives
depends if you want to do direct DVD to DVD copies and stuff like those.
The PC is ok.
It's plus point is the memory. The motherboard would need more info exact model etc.
Why does it have two different sized hard drives? That's fairly pointless as you can't stripe them in RAID, so you'd just have two disks instead of one big fat one.
Graphics card is below par.
All the other bits look like standard stuff on the motherboard.
What's the spec of the power supply?
I'd consider any of the machines from overclockers as an alternative -
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/full_systems.html
Check out the ""Titan" Pentium IV 630 'Prescott LGA775' 3.0GHz (800FSB) Hyper Threading DDR2 System (FS-000-OK) " for example - probably a tad more but quality throughout.
Edited because I just read that you already bought the other one. ....
Nice one :thumb: Poor, but happy
He just bought it!
I think I would have cancelled but if that's the one for him, no problem.
I think it still runs faster than the one big fat one, because the speed is normally the same @ 7200rpm, and so if you've got two spinning at that rate they can find data faster. The problem being though that if you install something onto the one drive, then it wont have any increase in speed, unlike in RAID I think, where it splits it across both so it can have both the hard drives running for the same bit of info.
I think anyway.