is this pc worth the money

pievien

I've found the following pc, it costs £269 from tesco (club card points too) I'll be using it for the net & gaming (gothic 2 & 3) Total war empire, and football management, oviously i won't be expecting max settings (as don't want to pay a forture for a pc to play games on), might want to upgrade bit later on if possible.

All advice aprieciated

Box ContentsPC base unit, keyboard and mouseBrandCompaqPC GraphicsUMA GE FORCE 9100,PC Hard Drive Size320 gbPC Memory Size2 gbPC Operating SystemWindows Vista™ Home PremiumPC ProcessorAMD athlong A64x2 5000+,PC Processor Model NumberAMD athlong A64x2 5000+,PC Processor Speed2.6PC Software LoadMicrosoft® works and microsoft® office home and student 2007 60-day trial version microsoft® internet explorer 7.0 Windows mail Adobe® reader 8.0 Hp total care advisor Photosmart essential Windows photo gallery Windows media player Windows movie maker Windows dvd maker Cyberlink dvdsuite deluxe Muvee autoproducer Easybits magic desktop Hp games console with hours of free game play, featuring ea™ Spore™ creature creator Windows media centerPC TV TunerNonePC User Model EntertainmentYesPC User Model PerformanceYesPC Wi-FiNoProduct Depth42.6 cmProduct Height37.7 cmProduct Weight9.53Product Weight UnitskgProduct Width16.9 cm

Duk

Its a good PC for the price and should run Gothic. May struggle a bit with total war (but as you said you are not expecting max settings) but should still play it and will easily run football manager.

As long as you know what motherboard is in their and what RAM it supports you will have no problem upgrading.

pievien

Duk wrote: »

Its a good PC for the price and should run Gothic. May struggle a bit with total war (but as you said you are not expecting max settings) but should still play it and will easily run football manager.

As long as you know what motherboard is in their and what RAM it supports you will have no problem upgrading.

Operating system installed
SR5722UK : Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium 32-bit
Processor type
SR5722UK: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 processor 5000+

Chipset
SR5722UK : NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8100 chipset
Standard memory
SR5722UK : 2 GB

Memory slots
SR5722UK : 4 DIMM sockets
Memory type
DDR2-SDRAM
Internal drivesInternal drives
SR5722UK: 320 GB

Storage controller
SATA 3G Hard Disk Drive
Hard disk drive speed
SR5722UK -M: (7200 rpm)
Optical drive type
DVD writer SATA DVD RAM and Double Layer supporting LightScribe technology
Lightscribe
Create silkscreen-quality disc labels direct from your PC with LightScribe: Just burn, flip, burn.
System featuresMemory card device
15in1 memory card reader
Network interface
Ethernet 10/100BT integrated network interface
Video capture interface
SR5722UK IEEE 1394 FireWire® Interface
Graphic subsystem name
SR5722UK NVIDIA® GeForce™ 9100 GPU
Video connectors
VGA port
Video RAM
SR5722UK 128 MB dedicated memory, up to 895 MB total available graphics memory as allocated by Windows Vista®
Internal audio
SR5722UK High Definition Audio 7.1
Audio connectors
SR5722UK : 2 front audio ports, 6 rear analog audio ports & 1 rear digital audio port
Keyboard
PS/2 keyboard and optical mouse
External drive bays
2 external optical drive bays, 1 internal HDD bay
Expansion slots
SR5722UK 3 PCI-Express 1x (3 free)
Video adapter, bus
1 PCI-Express 16x (free)
External I/O ports
SR5722UK 6 USB 2.0 ports (2 in front); 1 FireWire®-IEEE-1394 ports

pievien

The DW found this one, its more expensive at £449, but its blue ray bigger ram etc, no idea if its 32 or 64 bit version of window's, is it worth it, plus does anyone know if its 32 or 64 bit, as i'd prefer a 64 one


Audio FeaturesyesBrandAcerBundle ContainsPC base unitCard ReaderYesFeatures of Keyboardwired with multimedia keysFeatures of Mousewired opticalFeatures of ProductPowerful AMD Phenom™ X4 Quad-Core processor combined with 4096MB RAM for demanding multi tasking environments. Sizeable 1.2TB Hard Disk Drive for ample media storage. Blu-ray Disc™ reader with DVD RW drive. High performance visuals with NVIDIA 9500GS graphics. Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium offers a seamless and easy to use operating systemGraphicsNVIDIA 9500GS 512MBGraphics DedicatedYesHard Drive Size640GBHard Drive TypeSATAMemory Size4GBNumber of PCI Express Ports2Number of USB Ports8x USB 2.0Operating SystemWindows Vista™ Home PremiumOptical Drive Blu-ray CompatibleYesOptical Drive HD CompatibleYesOptical Drive Lightscribe CompatibleNoOptical Drive TypeDVD Re-WriterProcessorAMD Phenom™ X4Processor Bus3600MHzProcessor Cache2MBProcessor Model Number9550Processor Speed2.2GHzProduct Depth45.5 cmProduct Height37 cmProduct Weight11.1Product Weight UnitskgProduct Width18.3 cmSoftware LoadAcer Empowering Technology (eRecovery, eSettings Management) Acer Arcade™ Live Acer GameZone Console Microsoft® Office 2007 Trial with Microsoft® Works 8.5 eSobi™ McAfee® Internet Security Suite 2008 (60-day trial) Adobe® Reader® NTI CD&DVD-Maker™ Gold

Jaffa.

That will (should) be 64bit with the 4gb of memory. You can always get 64bit media and use the same product key if you wanted to.

epz_2

the graphics card is pretty low end if you want to do gaming, with grahics cards the second digit is often more important than the first, for example in most games a nvida 6800 would beat a 9100 even though its 3 generations older.

that said the rest of the specs look like a decent building block