Is This A Good Buy?

**ripley02** · 07-14-2003, 01:31 PM

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp...3A41937%3A56811

i'll be getting a 15" flat panel monitor elsewhere but how good is the setup listed here?

is it good enough to play a lot of the newer release pc games?

**ilw** · 07-14-2003, 01:39 PM

It comes with a shite integrated & memory sharing video card which means that u'll probably have problems with quite a lot of the newest games. It also doesn't have an agp slot so there is practically no chance of upgrading the graphics capability. I wouldn't really recommend this too highly, but if u decide that the cheap price is more important i saw it cheaper at amazon.

**lynx** · 07-14-2003, 03:15 PM

$469.99 direct from HP

But not much capability for future upgrade (no AGP, slowish memory, only 2 free PCI slots)

You probably won't do much better for the price, but you can probably do a lot better for just a little more.

**endezeichen** · 07-15-2003, 02:00 AM

ok before you blow your money away on this check out www.cyberpowerinc.com. There you can custom build your pc. I paid 595 for mine:
2100 athalon-- not as big as 2.2 but perform like a 3.0 celeron(if they had it)
512 ddr 266mhz ram
nvidea 64 mb video
cd-rw, dvd rom
MSI KX333 motherboard with 2 AGP slots
And not to mention a cool case with 5 neon lighted fans, a window and a neon light that respons to sound

This is definatly the best webstie to buy a computer if your not going to build it yourself.

btw-- for this system you might have to pay 100 more because I ordered it without windows and saved quite a bit of money

**Spindulik** · 07-15-2003, 02:15 AM

I would not buy that.
It ain't bad for a "first PC", but the CELERON blows cheese. And there is no way to really upgrade. No AGP slot for a GeForce Card.

**ilw** · 07-15-2003, 07:23 AM

Originally posted by endezeichen@15 July 2003 - 04:00
MSI KX333 motherboard with 2 AGP slots

R u sure about this, I've never seen a board with 2 agp slots, are u sure its not AGP 2x which is just one of the older AGP versions. There would be no point in having 2 agp slots as none of the rest of the system could handle 2 AGP graphics cards.

**Pitbul** · 07-15-2003, 07:37 AM

u can get something cheap like that then just buy a new Motherboard for around 80 dollars there some cheap ones with a AGP 4 or 8X slop 2 or 3 PCI slots and can handle up to 2 Gigs Ram

**lynx** · 07-15-2003, 12:09 PM

Originally posted by Pitbul@15 July 2003 - 08:37
u can get something cheap like that then just buy a new Motherboard for around 80 dollars there some cheap ones with a AGP 4 or 8X slop 2 or 3 PCI slots and can handle up to 2 Gigs Ram

But it is almost certainly a non-standard backplane connector layout, so swapping m/boards becomes a pain.