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| Thread ID: 81409 | 2007-07-27 01:40:00 | how does this sound for $700 | ryandn (12597) | Press F1 |
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| 573087 | 2007-07-27 01:40:00 | hi there just trying to buy a new Pc and need a bit of advice this is what im considering buying CPU:AMD Athlonx2 64bit dualcore 4000+ AM2 2.1GHz 1MB L2 Cache MB: Asus All in one motherboard DDR2-800 PCI-E 16X SATA 2 & RAID w/onboard 128MB Geforce 6100 graphics RAM:1GB DDR2-667 HDD:80GB Seagate SATAII 7200rpm HDD Optical Drive:20xDouble layer DVDRW Integrated Sound/Lan CASE: 400W ATX case with 2 front usb ports With windows vista installed and upgraded to 2gb of RAM all this for $670 how does this sound?? I had a NEC with intel p4 3gz 1gb or ram running vista previously but this died so am replacing it hopefully with this all i really do i browse the net and use word play the odd game here and there but not often most just browse the net watch vids nothing to difficult so opinions anybody? is it a good deal and a decent step up from my old system? |
ryandn (12597) | ||
| 573088 | 2007-07-27 01:45:00 | Thats a good deal..... and a smallish step up. You'll want to get a proper graphics card later on though.:thumbs: EDIT: I assume the installed Vista is legit? :lol: |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 573089 | 2007-07-27 01:57:00 | I'd want a standalone Vid Card for vista. I would say an Athlon x2 is right on the line for speed in terms of CPU speed for an acceptable Vista machine. Good Job :) |
Jams (1051) | ||
| 573090 | 2007-07-27 02:12:00 | hi there just trying to buy a new Pc and need a bit of advice this is what im considering buying CPU:AMD Athlonx2 64bit dualcore 4000+ AM2 2.1GHz 1MB L2 Cache MB: Asus All in one motherboard DDR2-800 PCI-E 16X SATA 2 & RAID w/onboard 128MB Geforce 6100 graphics RAM:1GB DDR2-667 HDD:80GB Seagate SATAII 7200rpm HDD Optical Drive:20xDouble layer DVDRW Integrated Sound/Lan CASE: 400W ATX case with 2 front usb ports With windows vista installed and upgraded to 2gb of RAM all this for $670 how does this sound?? I had a NEC with intel p4 3gz 1gb or ram running vista previously but this died so am replacing it hopefully with this all i really do i browse the net and use word play the odd game here and there but not often most just browse the net watch vids nothing to difficult so opinions anybody? is it a good deal and a decent step up from my old system? Very good deal, not so sure about a decent step up though. Thats a 900Mhz speed drop on the processor which is alot of instructions per cucle the new cpu has to do just to get even with the old cpu. I would say multi-tasking would be better, but dont think you will notice much of a speed bump. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 573091 | 2007-07-27 02:57:00 | Very good deal, not so sure about a decent step up though. Thats a 900Mhz speed drop on the processor which is alot of instructions per cucle the new cpu has to do just to get even with the old cpu. I would say multi-tasking would be better, but dont think you will notice much of a speed bump. But being dual core i thought this was basically like 2 @ 2gz?? correct me if im wrong on this one and yes it is a legit version of vista and will upgrade to bigger hard drive plus graphics and sound card somehwere down the track just they are not essential right now |
ryandn (12597) | ||
| 573092 | 2007-07-27 03:37:00 | But being dual core i thought this was basically like 2 @ 2gz?? correct me if im wrong on this one and yes it is a legit version of vista and will upgrade to bigger hard drive plus graphics and sound card somehwere down the track just they are not essential right now Hi, the 2nd core will only be used by the O/S or applications that are multi-threaded (encoding, Photoshop etc) I really dont think there is too much between the processors in single thread apps.. Check here (www23.tomshardware.com) but note these are multi-thread comparisons |
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