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Old 06-21-2005, 04:47 PM   #16 (permalink)
Robaggio
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CityOfAngels
What's so wrong with it? Will I be disappointed when it arrives?
Almost certainly.

Every pice of that system is shady:
Notice they don't tell you how fast the ram is?
How fast the hard drive is... what it's cache is?
What the motherboard is and is capable of?
It's a sempron AMD, not an athlon.
300W PSU with unknown voltage.
DVD burner of unknown speed.

What video card are you planning on putting into it? I guarantee if it's halfway decent you'll ABSOLUTELY NEED a new power supply like toast said. Either that or it'll get fried.

Even if your video card gets thrown in there, your "mystery ram" will definatly be a bottleneck. So you'll have to upgrade that... only, the motherboard is also a "mystery motherboard". So you'll have to probably upgrade that.. But, it's probably cheaper to get a mobo/cpu combo overall than to buy the emachine outright and replace half the parts.

You can easilly get MUCH more power for that price

Decent mobo/Athlon 3000 64 combo ~ $250
1Gig DDR 400 ram ~80-120 if you hunted for a deal (deals happen frequently)
$45 NEC Silver IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3520A SV - OEM from newegg.
$100 Western Digital Caviar SE WD1200JS 120GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache Serial ATA II Hard Drive - OEM from newegg
$40 PSU that toast listed
$50 Case

Total: $585. ~$150 more for a system that will perform at least 3x as well.

Granted, none of these parts are comparable at all to the emachines... but if we were to price out comperable parts:

Sempron 3000 + ECS-KT600-A for $150 from newegg
512 Generic (WINTEC) PC 3200 DDR 400 for $40 from newegg
120GB 7200 rpm SATA Maxtor 8mb Cache for $85 from newegg (this is probably too high than the emachine version. I can't find anything comperable.)
$45 NEC Silver IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3520A SV - OEM from newegg. (again, this is probalby too high. nobody sells the cheaper ones stand alone)
Case + 300W Mystery power supply $40

Add up shipping and misc peripherals and junk, and it'd probably take things to $400-430. It adds up to what the emachine is, but it has better parts overall than the emachine. And none of the parts are proprietary so they're easier to upgrade.

emachines are for interent browsing and microsoft word.

Flyboy:
AMD 64's beat the crap out of an intel of the same speed, and for less money. Almost certainly go AMD.

Last edited by Robaggio; 06-21-2005 at 04:54 PM..
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