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AMD 1800+
Hi can someone tell me if an AMD 1800+ based computer is a reasonable buy
for a family computer. It is being sold in a local paper for £325. Full specs:- 256 RAM 40GIG H/D 52 x CD Writer DVD Rom Windows XP PRO Office XP Nortons 2003 Nic Modern sound / graphics What is the Intel equivalent to the 1800+ Thanks Rodders |
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I suppose it depends what you need it for, a 'family PC' is quite a broad term. If you have kids they might want games, but the latest FPS is far more power intensive than an educational suite for 3 year olds. Is it advertised by a company or a person? New or second hand? It doesn't mention a monitor, speakers, printer etc, are these included? Somethings ae very vague, like how fast is the memory? How fast is the HD? Do you get the original CDs for the software? Is the sound and video onboard or on seperate cards? If you are just going to be surfing the net, word processing etc this won't really matter, but if you're going to be playing new games, doing video editing, or something like that you might want the above questions answered. Good for a first PC, but research first.The Intel equivalent to a 1800+ would be a 1.7 - 2.0 GHz P4. Hope this helps PC |
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:17:32 +0100, In this world we created "Rodders"
wrote : Hi can someone tell me if an AMD 1800+ based computer is a reasonable buy for a family computer. It is being sold in a local paper for £325. Full specs:- 256 RAM 40GIG H/D 52 x CD Writer DVD Rom Windows XP PRO Office XP Nortons 2003 Nic Modern sound / graphics What is the Intel equivalent to the 1800+ Thanks Rodders Do a custom system build price check on here so you can get an idea of what you could get new. http://security.cclcomputers.co.uk/a...figurator.html HTH -- Free Windows/PC help, It's a G not a J in jmx to reply http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html Free songs download, http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/17/sheppard.html |
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"Peter Cavan" wrote in message ... Hi I suppose it depends what you need it for, a 'family PC' is quite a broad term. If you have kids they might want games, but the latest FPS is far more power intensive than an educational suite for 3 year olds. Is it advertised by a company or a person? New or second hand? It doesn't mention a monitor, speakers, printer etc, are these included? Somethings ae very vague, like how fast is the memory? How fast is the HD? Do you get the original CDs for the software? Is the sound and video onboard or on seperate cards? If you are just going to be surfing the net, word processing etc this won't really matter, but if you're going to be playing new games, doing video editing, or something like that you might want the above questions answered. Good for a first PC, but research first.The Intel equivalent to a 1800+ would be a 1.7 - 2.0 GHz P4. Hope this helps PC Thanks for that Peter, It is from a private seller and is second hand, these are the specs which are in the newspaper. It is my brother in law who is looking and he has phoned a couple of times to ask about the monitor and software but phone ringing out just now. I suspect that the graphics and sound will be built in. I doubt it will have a printer. I suspect that the Windows XP Pro may not be the original disc as that alone is almost the price of the advertised system. Rodders |
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:17:32 +0100, "Rodders"
wrote: Hi can someone tell me if an AMD 1800+ based computer is a reasonable buy for a family computer. It is being sold in a local paper for £325. Full specs:- 256 RAM 40GIG H/D 52 x CD Writer DVD Rom Windows XP PRO Office XP Nortons 2003 Nic Modern sound / graphics What is the Intel equivalent to the 1800+ Thanks Rodders Find out if it has a decent or generic power supply, how loud the CPU fan is, and if it has integrated graphics, does it also have an AGP slot. Any of these issues might make it a bad deal, (or a really flimsy case), but otherwise it's hard to speculate about a 2nd hand system, there's a lot more than specs involved when there's no assurance of quality, unless it's an OEM box, which doesn't guarantee top-quality but at least a certain level of quality, indirect support, and a larger user base. If you or someone else very familiar with modern systems could go take a careful look at it you might have a better idea of it's value. Dave |
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