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Is this a good PC for $365?

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-01 21:09

Is it? Or can I get better elsewhere or if I just built my own? Here's the description...

INTEL P4 345 3.0GHz [2MB CACHE] (64-BIT & HYPERTHREADING) CPU & QUALITY COOLING BALL BEARING FAN & HEATSINK

QUALITY VIA PM800 800FSB HYPER-THREADING DDR400 ATX MOTHERBOARD w/USB 2.0 and 8xAGP PORT

1 8xAGP Slot & 3 Free PCI SLOTS / 4 ULTRA ATA-133/100/66/33 IDE DEVICES ON 2 CHANNELS

1024MB FAST DDRAM, GOLD LEADS

(CPU Overheating Protection) accurately monitors your CPU temperature

8xAGP ATI RADEON 9250 VIDEO w/128MB DDRAM & TV-OUT

DVD DXVA MOTION COMPENSATION FOR SMOOTH DVD PLAYBACK

80GB ATA-133 7200RPM HARD DRIVE

MULTI-MODE 16xDVD+/-R/RW (DUAL LAYER) BURNER/READER & CD-R/RW BURNER/READER DRIVE

10/100TXBase Ethernet LAN DSL READY

5 USB (VER 2.0) PORTS / 1 EPP/ECP MODE PARALLEL PORT / 2 16550 HIGH-SPEED SERIAL I/O PORTS

DIGITAL 6-CHANNEL AUDIO w/FM SYNTHESIS - Upgrade to Sound Blaster LIVE! DIGITAL 7.1 24-bit $29

FULL-DUPLEX OPERATION FOR SIMULTANEOUS RECORDING & PLAYBACK

BLACK X-BLADE WINDOWED LIGHTED MID-TOWER MID-TOWER CASE w/450W P.S. || 4 5-1/4" BAYS || 6 3-1/2" BAYS || FRONT USB PORTS

Gamers package 128MB ATI RADEON 9250 Video 128MB DDRAM w/TV-OUT, USB 2.0, 7200RPM PERFORMANCE DRIVE, (16xDUAL LAYER) DVD-BURNER/CDRW and 1024MB of RAM.

FEATURING MULTI-MODE (DUAL LAYER 8.5G DISK SUPPORTED) DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, CD-R & CD-RW BURNER & READER! IT BURNS AND COPIES/WRITES JUST ABOUT ALL THE FORMATS OUT THERE!!

5xUSB (VERSION 2.0) PORTS INCLUDED! , 40 TIMES FASTER THAN USB 1.1!

ATA-133 DATA TRANSFER SUPPORTED! , 33% MORE THAN ATA-100 TRANSFERS!

7200RPM HARD DISK! , UPTO 27% FASTER THAN 5400RPM TRANSFERS!

8x AGP Video, 100% HIGHER MAXIMUM TRANSFER RATE THAN CONVENTIONAL 4x AGP!

SERIAL ATA-150 with RAID SUPPORTED, Serial ATA-150 ACHIEVES HIGHER TRANSFER RATES AND MORE CACHE (8MB IN STEAD OF 2MB) THAN ATA-133 AND USES MUCH LESS CPU POWER TO RUN ACHIEVING MUCH BETTER PERFORMANCE ON DISK INTENSIVE APPLICATION SUCH AS BURNING DVD - SEE ATA-150 UPGRADES AVAILABLE!

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-01 21:14

Build one yourself. You can get parts at a relatively low price on newegg but the total price might be somewhere in the 600$

Name: rape-kun 2006-05-02 1:26

For those parts, that isn't a bad deal.  With that videocard you really aren't gonna be able to play any games (don't know if you care though).  I'm making the assumption that you've never put together a computer before; once you do you'll never buy from an OEM again.

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-02 3:51

Whoever wrote that description wasn't the brightest knife in the drawer. But that's a decent buy at 365 dollars, if you wanna do any gaming you are probably going to have to buy a new graphics card and if you want any upgrade at all you are gonna have to buy whole new motherboard. The mobo included with that is.... bad, but for that price you probably can't get a lot better unless you build your own (there are some gems out there, but they aren't used much in typical off the shelf stuff)

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-02 8:31

>>2
In general, at the low end it's hard to save money by self-building, the savings therein tend to be larger for mid-range or top-end systems. And contrary to >>3 and >>4, you will be able to play games - just not particularly recent ones.

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-02 8:42

why are you buying a computer from CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-02 21:18

the only real prob I see is the vidcard. 'cos radeon sucks balls. other than that, it looks pretty sweet to me.

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