Main Features | |
Memory | 1 - 2 |
Hard Drive Capacity | 120 - 160 |
Processor | 1 - 2 |
written by lister22 on 08/11/2008
Im going to upgrade mine to a nvidia ge force 9500gt, comes with 1 gb ram, also 570 watt power pack, and ddr ram to 2 gb ram, total cost is £140.00, Ive upgraded to windows vista at no extra cost, and my system runs great, im really into digital photography and have a 22" wide screen acer 223w screen and these mods will make a great difference, ive weighed up the pros and cons of getting a new system. with this spec its to much to buy new again... so an upgrade is on the xmas list.
Good desktop pc, when upgraded great pc, all been checked out and had apci port scan done also i can upgrade my ddr ram to 4gb, so im keeping it, enough said, reading some peoples problems, ive never had one, but if i had any like ive read i would have taken it back to comet...
written by on 12/10/2008
I bought the basic machine a couple years ago:
512MB DDR2 RAM
80GB HDD
AMD Sempron 3200+ processor
you know the rest
Anyway, I installed a proper graphics card first, as long as you make sure the games you buy don't require a processor higher than 1.8GHz, you're fine, although I do have a couple of games that require 2.0GHz but seem ok.
Also I bought 2x 1GB memory (which I installed alongside the original 512MB) this drastically improves the computer's performance and I highly recommend it, this will also solve any problems you have with using MSN as I did before upgrading the memory.
I will soon be adding a new hard drive (500GB) because the 77.6GB (even though it claims to be 80GB) really isn't enough.
I did have a problem with the DVD drive at one point, it stopped working, but if you go into the Device Manager and find the DVD drive there, it will tell you the problem, with a code eg: mine was code 39
You can just Google this and will find a solution that way, the solution I found was actually code 31, but it worked anyway
Other than that it has been a surprisingly good system, especially at the price, just make sure you upgrade the memory as soon as you can because with Vista running, you will need more than 512MB.
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