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Advice on Emachines W3080
OK So long story short is I looked for information on buying a budget
desktop and somehow I couldn't find two bad words said about the Emachines W3080, Athlon XP 3000, or TigerDirect. Reluctantly, I ordered a refurbished system that seemed like a really good deal because everyone I asked said that refurbished systems are the way to go. [OK so thie story isn't that short SKIP DOWN TO BOTTOM IF YOU JUST WANNA GIVE ME TECH ADVICE] Well, I got the computer quickly and set it up.. and I was very pleased to start with. I don't do any heavy gaming... mostly just do web design, normal internet use, and some graphics editing... so I was fairly impressed with the computer's speed and all. Then after about a whopping 36 hours the computer froze, would not respond, and never booted up again. I went through the paces with emachines support, trying safe mode, trying resetting bios, trying restore CDs, all the stuff and in the end they said it sounded like I had a defective Video card or ram or something. Of course, when i went researching this problem I came across 8 million people who were aware that Emachines are notoriously crappy. Not to mention a stack of complaints a mile high about Tiger Direct at Ripoffreport.com and other review sites. So as it stands I had to send the computer back to be replaced or possibly (hopefully) get a store credit if they are out of that model. I am fairly certain I am going to be stuck with another emachine w3080. My Question is: How can I make the best of this situation? Anyone have any suggestions as to what would be the most important parts to upgrade or replace from the start? I am not experienced with hardware upgrades but I have alot of spare time to learn how and I'm not too stupid. Someone suggested I get a better motherboard or a better video card since it has an open AGP slot. Should i swap the standard RAM out? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. The specs on the system are : emachines W3080 athlon xp 3000+ processor 512MB DDR Integrated video and audio DVD rom drive and a CDRW drive. Here is a link to the full specs- http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...Sku=E400-W3080 Thanks - Jeoffory Please email me at |
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(JJH) wrote in message . com...
OK So long story short is I looked for information on buying a budget desktop and somehow I couldn't find two bad words said about the Emachines W3080, Athlon XP 3000, or TigerDirect. ***SNIP*** My Question is: How can I make the best of this situation? Anyone have any suggestions as to what would be the most important parts to upgrade or replace from the start? I am not experienced with hardware upgrades but I have alot of spare time to learn how and I'm not too stupid. Someone suggested I get a better motherboard or a better video card since it has an open AGP slot. Should i swap the standard RAM out? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. The specs on the system are : emachines W3080 athlon xp 3000+ processor 512MB DDR Integrated video and audio DVD rom drive and a CDRW drive. Here is a link to the full specs- http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...Sku=E400-W3080 Thanks - Jeoffory Please email me at Well, sounds like you got hosed.... sorry. You really DO get what you paid for. Try to get your money back, that'd be the best outcome. Swallow the 15% "restocking" ripoff if you have to. The cheapest competitive system I've seen would be a Compaq at Costco or Walmart - about $500 with a monitor. I'm not sure that these systems will be much of an upgrade, though - you should look at epinions.com and resellerratings.com for reviews. It's ALWAYS better to buy an el-cheapo budget system though a local store - you have real people to go and talk to, and somewhere to take it back when it goes wrong. If you want to buy online, go with Alienware or maybe Dell - they have some problems, but they also have millions of satisfied and loyal customers, too. If TigerDirect won't refund your money, then at least insist on a working system - make a real pest of yourself - phone them daily, insist on talking to the supervisor, be firm but not obnoxious. Get to know them all by name (ie. keep detailed notes of who you talked to and what was said). Actually, if you can get a working system it'll probably last for a year or two.... which is about what you paid for. Not much longer than that, though. Anyways, good luck.... ECM |
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