basic316's Review of eMachines T1840 Computer
31st Aug 2008
Overall Rating
- Value for money
- Ease of Use
- Time Computer OwnedOver 1 Year
- Ease of Set Up
Product is very reliable and user friendly. Its a perfect pc for those who do general computing. My system has been running for 6 years now (for aprox. 12hrs a day and I have never had it become unstable while in use.
Bad Points
Power supply went out after about 4 years but was easy fix.
Has low amount of RAM but can be upgradable to 2GB.
General Comments
If you are a power friendly user than it can still be the right pc for you. It can upgraded in many ways. RAM can be upograded to 2GB. For aprox. 60-75 dollars. If 2GB is not enough for you (I know its not for me) you can set paging file also called swap file. Heres how-right click on my computer and go to properties-then click advanced tab (top right side under remote tab)-then click on performance settings-click advanced tab- then on bottom change-then u can set the amount of hard disk space windows uses as if it were RAM. You have a limit of 4095MB per drive. I have 9090MB set on my two hard drives(8.87GB) and with my 2GB of RAM installed on motherboard= total of 10.87GB which is great for high performance needs.
Sound and video can be upgraded to a PCI card(be sure to dissable onboard devices after installation). The CPU can be upgraded to a INTEL CELERON 2.0GHz, 2.4GHz, or a 2.8GHz. It can hold and handel a Pentium 4 (Northwood not Prescott core) but you have a chance of burnning out the capacitor's that control you FSB(Front Side Bus) which are located on left side of processor socket. Your motherboard supports a 400MHz FSB but can be upgraded to a CPU that has higher(it will automaticaly slow it down thus cutting your perfromance on a P4).
I personally have many upgrades to my system and it runs better than any I have seen.
UPGRADES*
Western Digital 80GB slave hardrive.
Diamond 7.1, 24bit sound card.
EVGA-GeForce 6200, 400MHz RAM Clock, DDR2, Dual Display.
A-Power 680 watt power supply.
Lightscribe dvd and cd burner.
This combo has created the best computer for my gaming and mutimedia needs.
I would recomend it to anyone who can get there hands on one.
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