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Should I buy this computer
Corrosive Monkey
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I'm looking for a new computer on a tiny budget which is why I am looking at ebay. I have found this one. Is it any good? I will mainly use it for the internet, guild wars and Halo CE.
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On the flipside on that budget and with a monitor as well. I'd doubt you'd get a better deal
See what savings you can actually make (do you already have a monitor/keyboard? etc)
I'd say if you could find the same thing with a 939 socket motherboard it'd be a much better deal.
The 940 was around for the blink of an eye.
Really? I thought the AM2 socket was the latest AMD socket.
It is, but the 939 is cheaper. I mean obviously if you could get an AM2 for that price that's even better.
This computer is a good deal. Buy it and then get an upgraded CPU (Semprons are the lowest of AMD chips) and a PCI-E video card and you'll be set for a long while
That's true. Although, speaking of dead-end, my mobo is AGP so if I want a PCI-E card I'm going to have to upgrade that. I just might build a new computer altogether and give this one to my girlfriend, hmmmm.
I guess I shouldn't have bought one of those, huh.
No, AMD used a socket 940 for its high end chips. They then developed another socket that also has 940 pins called AM2 which is their newest and bestest socket.
The auction is just being silly in listing it as a socket AM2 and then listing it as a Socket 940. Socket 940 was used only in the high end FX line and Opteron line chips
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_940
Just to make that clear. Some people are getting hung up on the 940 thing in the auction.
AM2 is a solid upgrade path. You can upgrade to a dual core, or quad core when they come out. You can even use AM3 chips in it when they come out, though the motherboard won't support DDR3 (not a big deal). As it stands right now, you just need to buy a good PCI-E card and you'll be set. You might want to pick up another gig of RAM down the road as more games demand it or if you switch to Vista, but for the time being, I'd say that's a pretty solid system. You could easily overclock it with the stock heatsink to 2.6 Ghz, provided the motherboard can handle it. You don't need to immediately buy a new CPU as some posts would have you believe. Dual core processors are not utilized in at least 90% of all Windows applications yet. You won't really need multicore for at least another year.
You do know that Socket 940 and AM2 are two entirely different sockets...
*slaps head*
Yeah, I just read Socket 940. Of course an e-mail to the guys should verify it as an AM2 board, and I retract my comments.
CPU is about $55
Motherboard is about $55
RAM is about $130
Hard Drive is about $65
DVD Drive is about $30
Monitor is about $180
All that totals for about $515 (264GBP according to google). That doesn't include speakers or mouse or keyboard as the auction doesn't mention those being included. Case could be as cheap as $10. Going by this, and the price of 400GBP ($779 according to google), I'd say it may not be as good of a deal as I originally thought (first impressions were taking the price as Dollars, not Pounds). Its not bad if you don't want to deal with building your own computer, but I wouldn't recommend this to any of my friends.
All prices are the cheapest price for the component listed in the ebay auction that I could find on Newegg
You can't compare American pricing to UK Pounds with computer stuff, we just get ripped off to badly
The closest you get is using the conversion rate of 1$ = 1£ it sucks but there you go.
It's more like $1,5 = 1GBP ATM, at least for computer components.
I can't find Vista on that auction's page... except for the mention of "vista ready".
At night, the ice weasels come."
LINK
And thanks Migliori for the link
That and Vista isn't even out yet, except for the big businesses and OEMs like HP and Dell.