Hey there, I am considering purchasing this computer - for $800.00. It includes a 20 inch monitor. Do you guys think this is a good deal? Components • Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit • AMD Phenom(TM) X4 830 quad-core processor [2.8GHz, 2MB L2 + 4MB L3 shared, up to 4000MHz] • 6GB DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM [3 DIMMs] from 4GB • 750GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive from 500GB • 1GB ATI Radeon HD 5570 [DVI,HDMI, DP, VGA adapter] • HP 2010i 20-inch Diagonal HD Ready Widescreen Monitor • LightScribe 16X max. DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive • Integrated Ethernet port, No wireless LAN • Integrated sound • Mouse/keyboard
It's an OK deal. A very poor graphics card for the price. This looks like the specs of a computer sold at Costco or Best Buy. Wasted money on the lightscribe drive, large(ish) hard drive, and monitor, and sacrifice on the things that matter - CPU and GPU I wouldn't recommend it.
Well, the graphics card seemed OK to me. It's 1 GB, and I thought that with the AMD Phenom processor, it might be serviceable. Is it just an older card? I'm also looking around at other sites - Cyberpower, ibuypower, velocity micro, maingear, digital storm, I just can't seem to decide what the best value is. I understand that building it on your own is considered best, but I really don't trust myself. I am terrible with things like that. And, I don't trust any of my friends who claim they know how to, either.
If you find a good one let me know. I'm sort of in same boat. Except I bought a macbook a few months back and it barely plays SC2 on low. Debating if I should get a cheap desktop or not.
