eMachines W2785

Everytime I try to play any game on the eMachine Model W2785 for more than 1 hour, the game either starts to lag, or the computer crashes, or turns itself off. Very frustrating.

I looked around and found my W2785 Emachine at Wal-Mart. The price was right and I purchased one. It came with an 80GB hard drive, 512MB ram, DVD burner. All pretty good for the price. I will have to agree with the other rating of the on board video..It was not going to run games such as Unreal Tournament 2004, so I bought a Nvidia 5200 Geforce FX video card 128MB. The power source was also a problem. But this was easily fixed as I installed an Antec power source (400w)

Very nice. There are expansion slots for many upgrades inside as well. I have also installed a Creative SoundBlaster Live! Sound card and Logitech 5.1 speaker system to let the games and tunes rock. You can also install more memory with the available expansion slot. Along with these other upgrades cooling was also a factor espcially with the added Video card. Yes, there is also room for a 80mm exhaust fan as well. Mine glows green..Again very nice.The AMD Athlon 2700 cpu is a fast and stable processor too..got a fan for that too. You ask why all the upgrades when you could get a pc with all those goodies? This was a cheaper alternative and works very well. You can tweak alot of the windows settings to get better performance out of this system as well.

Go ahead buy one. With a little time and little money you can have yourself quite a nice Desktop titan of sorts.

I bought this eMachines Model W2785 computer at Wal-Mart, not that bad of a price. So I bought it, to try it out. My first thing to say to you is about the Modem, the modem is CAPABLE of getting 56kbps, but it will also go at speeds slower than what it says, and I'm telling you it will go extremely slow, so I went out and bought a new Modem to replace it, so now it isnt that bad. The graphics card was a 32MB which I decided wasnt good enough for a gamer like me so I went back to Wal-Mart and bought a new 256MB (very beasty). The computer comes with a 17 inch monitor (not a flat-screen), it also comes with 2 speakers, that you can't plug head-phones in (you have to connect it to the tower,and then sound still comes out of the speakers) it comes with a key-board that isnt that bad has volume functions, calculator, sleep, cut , internet , e-mail, etc. etc. The system specs that bad

-512MB RAM

-AMD Athlon XP 2700 Processor

-32MB display card(I believe this is what it is)

-80GB memory

It also comes with a network card. You can use that for Network Play. It also comes with a

-16x DVD drive

-16x DVD-R drive

-and a floppy drive

It also has 2 open slots for whatever you choose to put in. Also everything says eMachines, which is rather irritating, but you get to live with it. Out of the box eMachines, is for budget tight people, but for those who like to Mod computers, maybe this could be an experiment