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| 23 Mar 2010 | #1 |
| | Thinking of Buying a New Computer is This a Good Setup I'm thinking of buying a new computer from Dell and was wondering if this was a good hardware setup: AMD Sempron™ 140 (2.7GHz, 1MB) AMD Sempron™ 140 (2.7GHz, 1MB) Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic SP2, 64-Bit No Monitor- I have one 16X DVD+/-RW Drive 2GB2 Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM3 at 1066MHz- 2 DIMMs 320GB4 Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™ Integrated ATI Radeon HD4200 Graphics Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio This is the computer I'm thinking of getting: Inspiron 570 Desktop | Dell~~ |
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| 23 Mar 2010 | #2 |
| | Worth the prize.  |
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| 23 Mar 2010 | #3 |
| | Is it a good setup though? |
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Quote: Originally Posted by cgrim29588  Is it a good setup though? |
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| 23 Mar 2010 | #5 |
| | depends on what you are doing with it. 2gb of ram is a little low, but doable. The onboard graphics are not that good for gaming as it wont have its own dedicated RAM. So it will use some of your 2GB of RAM as well. The ATI HD4200 IGP is not as bad though as the Intel IGP.... The motherboard is not listed on the site anywhere so I cant say what it is upgradeable to either. For a budget PC though, this is not bad. |
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| 23 Mar 2010 | #6 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by Thorsen depends on what you are doing with it. 2gb of ram is a little low, but doable. The onboard graphics are not that good for gaming as it wont have its own dedicated RAM. So it will use some of your 2GB of RAM as well. The ATI HD4200 IGP is not as bad though as the Intel IGP.... The motherboard is not listed on the site anywhere so I cant say what it is upgradeable to either. For a budget PC though, this is not bad. |
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| 23 Mar 2010 | #7 |
| | Bump! |
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| 23 Mar 2010 | #8 |
| | For under $300 you do not have a lot of choices. The two things I would not like are the 2GB of RAM (3 or 4 would be better) and the Vista Home basic (Windows7 Home Premium would be better). Here is the best I could find, but it is a bit more expensive: Newegg.com - Recertified: HP Pavilion P6204Y(NY705AAR) Pentium E5400(2.70GHz) 6GB DDR2 750GB Intel GMA 3100 Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit= |
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| 23 Mar 2010 | #9 |
| | I don't have $300 or more to spend right now. 2GB I think will be fine for what I need it the computer for. I will be installing Windows 7 Home Basic on it to replace Vista. I prefer to have a new computer than a re certified/used computer. |
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| 23 Mar 2010 | #10 |
| | If I'm not mistaken the HD 4200 comes with the 785G chipset which if Dell aren't the total jerks they can be with that sort of thing, the CPU can be upgraded at a later time if that Sempron doesn't cut it. One thing is even though it is the Sempron in it, it will still run circles around his current computer. As far as the ram goes, yes 4 GB would be better than the 2 GB it comes with, but again that can be upgraded at a later date (definitely don't want to pay Dell's price for it). |
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