Opinions...again?

New PC...again?

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.
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The information provided sounds good, but that of course would depend on the price tag which you forgot to mention...
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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...
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I'll upgrade the RAM (to 2GB) and Video Card (to a PCIe card) when I get a chance.

Good plan....

Reply #4 Top
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.
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Okay, thanks for all the comments guys. The price tag (that i forgot to mention) is $679.97