Buying a new comp

Sun May 02, 2004 12:17 am by Comont54

I went to Fry's Electronics today and saw a really great computer. It was only like 1,100 bucks, it has 3.0 gigahertz pentium 4, 120 gigabyte hard drive, 512 ram (upgradeable to 2 gig) and a free AGP slot. This means if i were to buy one, pickup a good card and some ram you think it may be a good comp?

"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla

Sun May 02, 2004 12:29 am by Neo_Kuja

He,He, I saw a comp of that price for $350.
I ain't telling where though ......
Let's just say I got a Pentium 3 (With Geforce 3) for $20 at the same place.

And no, it ain't illegal.

Sun May 02, 2004 12:32 am by mustang

Depends what kind of ram, hard drive and mobo it's using. Cheap PC's usually have cruddy generic components, especially in the RAM dept. Def. good specs though but I can't really say if that's a good price or not, cause I always think in Aus $.

Sun May 02, 2004 2:30 am by Kabbie

Don't forget about crappy motherboards, and crappy GFX (judging by the free AGP, it prolly utilizes onboard graphics :X)

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Sun May 02, 2004 3:40 am by [steel]

thats pretty expensive going on the limited apecs you gave
and as already said it sounds like its onboard graphics so until you add a card you will have a lot less than a half gig of ram as the graphics will be using some of the system memory

Sun May 02, 2004 4:00 am by Tawakalna

$1100 is about £850, so no it's not a good deal at all, I could build a kick@ss machine for that money that's a lot better spec'd. Don't buy it, it's not a bargain.

Sun May 02, 2004 1:23 pm by Aod

i agree with Taw

(YESSS i've ALWAYS wanted to say that)

Sun May 02, 2004 2:03 pm by TheJkWhoSaysNi

Yeah, build one yourself. I built mine for £900 back in november (nFroce2 mobo, Radeon 9800 pro, SbLive, 1gb PC3200 DDR, Xp2800+ barton.)

Sun May 02, 2004 4:00 pm by Esquilax

I could build a better machine than that!

...free AGP slot...

What the hell does that mean? They charge you for each slot now?

Sun May 02, 2004 4:07 pm by H.Q. Victor

Unless he's talking about an open slot, using only shared memory. Which would explain the lower price with that fast a processor. Hmm, would have to think about it for a bit. Cost of building one, and getting it vers, this and upgradeing it.

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Edited by - Finalday on 5/2/2004 5:07:37 PM

Sun May 02, 2004 11:58 pm by Comont54

it uses onboard graphics but has an agp slot to stick a card in, i dont know it looks pretty good but i may go out and build one.

"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla

Mon May 03, 2004 1:19 am by Tawakalna

Yes do, more fun, cheaper, and you learn about pcs too.

Mon May 03, 2004 12:02 pm by Comont54

OK, So i decided to build one. So I need a Motherboard (probably getting an Asus from that thread you guys had earlier) a good hard drive. and all those general goodies heres my main problem, I dont know a thing about assembling them

.

"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla

Mon May 03, 2004 12:58 pm by Nickless V2

Fry's Electronics

Don't you just love the name of that store?

Enspires a lot of trust, doesn't it?

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Mon May 03, 2004 6:39 pm by Indy11

Comont, didn't that $1100 include monitor, keyboard and mouse? Also, is it bundled with software too? I would agree that if that $1100 was for the cpu box only, it is not a good buy, expecially with no AGP graphics card to speak of.

Also, what is the speed of that 120gig HDD? 5400rpm? 7200rpm?

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