Any Good for the Price? PC

NotMyRealUsername_2

http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=368546&catcode=&sourceid=4048&cm_mmc=Lyris-_-BC-_-BC4048-_-Q177391

Can I please have opinions as to whether this pc is any good? Thanks.

snowball1972

What do you intend using it for?

outlaw777

Yeah it seems ok, Misco is a reputable company too.

Mercenary

As snowball1972 said....what is the intended use?

If it is only for browsing the internet, social-networking, storing photos and emailing etc, fine. Otherwise there are 2 possible problems as I see it:

a) it's running Vista which will need every bit of that 3GB RAM, so you may want to upgrade to Windows 7 at some point.

b) if there's any serious game-playing (ie modern DVD or Steam based games, not the Windows Solitaire or Minesweeper ones) going to be done by anybody, you will need a dedicated (separate) graphics card.

jaydeeuk1

Mercenary wrote: »

As snowball1972 said....what is the intended use?

If it is only for browsing the internet, social-networking, storing photos and emailing etc, fine. Otherwise there are 2 possible problems as I see it:

a) it's running Vista which will need every bit of that 3GB RAM, so you may want to upgrade to Windows 7 at some point.

b) if there's any serious game-playing (ie modern DVD or Steam based games, not the Windows Solitaire or Minesweeper ones) going to be done by anybody, you will need a dedicated (separate) graphics card.

The CPU isn't too bad, more than powerful enough to merely do web browsing and storing photos etc. DVD playback/encoding/ripping will be fine, editing photos/documents etc.
And vista will not swallow up all that 3gb ram. If yours does, I'd run a virus/spyware scan. Gaming wouldn't be possible on this machine though, but for the price its pretty good.

NotMyRealUsername_2

It will be used a fair bit for gaming, as well as the usual email, storing photos etc. Thanks everyone that has taken the effort to reply. x