Critique this comp (aka DOES THIS COMP HAVE AIDS?)

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MichaelJackson

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So I'm in the market for a new comp that's about a mid range system and I come across this:

This comp is $459.99 Canadian which comes out to be ~$375.90 US. Shipping to the US is $40 Canadian which is ~$31.90.

I realize it does not have an operating system and I don't give a crap about sound cards or that it uses an on board network card... barring those things... how is this rig so cheap??? Does it have teh aids? I see this specific setup on eBay from this company up constantly so they're just churning these babies out... can anyone more tech savvy than me take a glance at this??? Is this just an amazing deal or what? Help me out here...

http://cgi.ebay.com/AMD-DUAL-CORE-G...14&_trkparms=72:1234|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1309

Processor........AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+ Socket AM2
CPU Fan..........AMD Original AM2 CPU Fan
Motherboard....ECS nVidia GeForce 7050M-M Motherboard
Memory..........4GB DDR II 800 Memory 240 Pin (Kingston) 　
Hard Drive.......Western Digital 160GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache Serial ATA II
Optical Drive....LG 22X DVD RW + Dual Layer
Video..............nVidia GeForce 9600GT 512MB DDR3 PCI-E Dual DVI HDTV
Audio..............Realtek ALC662 6-channel HD Audio
Network Card...Onboard 10/100 Network Card
Ports...............6 USB 2.0 Ports, 1 Parallel, 1 1394a
Case...............1285 Deluxe Black Tower Case
Power Supply...600 Watt Heavy Duty Power Supply
Warranty.........1 Year Parts 3 Years Labor Warranty & Life Time Toll Free Support
Assembly.........Fully Assembled and Tested
 
It has AIDS... don't go with AMD cores these days... they are far inferior to Intel's Core 2 Duo line, as well as having double the power consumption (thus having double the heat production). Memory is also one of the most important things about a computer; people dont realize that quality of memory trumps almost everything else. You can have an amazing machine, put some shitty Kingston memory into it, and it may as well be a piece of garbage.
 
i'm in agreement wih jaxel on this one. AMD is fail these days, they were A teir against the P4 but at the moment they are playing catch up to the core2 line. The amd64 was better than the P4 line because of the memory. same with the sega genesis and the SNES. Genesis clock speed was almost double SNES's, but it had no memory so the SNES was superior. having little memory is the equivelent of shipping merchandise to a store in a porshe. it will outrun an 18 wheeler no problem, but you will have to make alot of trips to compensate.

Also ati's equivelent of the 9600 is far better.

also, i dont know what your budget is, but if you can make the jump to DDR3 and get a raid0 setup going on there it will be well worth the extra $200 or so, it would defanatly add a year to your system before it gets horrificly outdated.
 
EXCELLENT

This is exactly what I wanted.

I built my last computer pice by piece based off of Newegg reviews (you know... where the people on there say stuff like, "I used this MoBo with BLAH BLAH BLAH" and was very pleased with the results) however with this one it's good to see live opinions on this comp.

I'll look for an Intel Core 2 Duo (or Quad? ...is it worth it over a Duo?) with better RAM and a SATA Hard Drive.

I appreciate the advice gentlemen.

(I also just noticed that there is a technology board and feel a little dumb for not posting this on that forum...)
 
It depends what you want out of your computer. Core 2 Duo is clearly cheaper than than the quads, and for most practical purposes will be just fine. For games, the gpu is the main factor anyways.
 
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