Is this a good computor?

[Sir Goulum]

Um....It has an AGP card....heres every last single thing they wrote down for this comp

Microprocessor
Intel® Pentium® 4 processor 1.8GHz with■ Intel® NetBurst™ micro-architecture

Frontside Bus
400MHz

Memory
256MB DDR SDRAM (exp. to 1GB) with up to 32MB allocated to video memory


Hard Drive
80GB Ultra DMA Gigabyte (GB) is defined as 1,000,000,000 bytes (accessible capacity may vary)

CD-RW drive
hp CD-Writer (32x/10x/40x) 32x max. speed write 10x max. speed re-write 40x max. speed read

Multimedia Drive
16x max. speed DVD-ROM

Video Graphics
Integrated SiS650 graphics technology with up to 32MB of shared video memory

Network Card
Integrated 10/100Base-T networking interface

Total Drive Bays
External (1) 3.5", (2) 5.25"; Internal (2) 3.5"

Available■Drive Bays
Internal (1) 3.5"

Total Expansion Slots
3 PCI

Available Slots
2 PCI

Total External Ports
6 USB; 2 Serial; 1 parallel; 1 game port; 2 PS/2; 3 IEEE 1394 ports

Available External Ports
6 USB; 2 Serial; 1 parallel; 1 game port; 3 IEEE 1394 ports

Total Memory Slots
2 DIMM (184pin, DDR)

Available Memory Slots
0 DIMM (184 pin, DDR)

Memory Speed
2100 MB/sec

Primary Cache (L1)
8KBytes of Data Cache + Trace Cache containing 12,000 Micro-Op entries

Secondary-Level Cache (L2)
256Kb advanced transfer cache

MPEG
MPEG2 for full-motion digital video

Front Mounted Ports
2 USB, 1 serial port and 1 IEEE 1394 port

Diskette Drive
3.5" (1.44MB)

Operating System
Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition

DVD Software
InterVideo WinDVD™

CD-writer software
HP RecordNow

Education and Entertainment
Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia Deluxe Online With 1 Year trial subscription

Video Memory
32MB SDRAM

[andrewas]

Originally posted by Sir Goulum: Um....It has an AGP card....heres every last single thing they wrote down for this comp [Video Graphics Integrated SiS650 graphics technology with up to 32MB of shared video memory Total Expansion Slots 3 PCI Available Slots 2 PCI

The SiS650 is an AGP chipset, but its on the motherboard. Some manufacturers making motherboards with onboard graphics like this cut corners by not including and AGP slot to expand with. Your Motherboard has all the hardware to support a replacement AGP card, but no way to actualy install one. And no, you cant install an AGP slot at a later date.

[Megabot]

No i cant see that it have a AGP slot available only two pci slots!
Btw you can buy a good pc with no built in video or sound but the pc can have a good grapich card and sound card for that Sir Goulum only ask in the computer shop and say that you want a pc to the same price without this built in thingies no problem at all i think! Then you have a computer that you can "upgrade" later if you want! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Sir Goulum]

Ok, as long as I can play NWN , and it won't be terrible, I'm fine [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Megabot]

Originally posted by Sir Goulum: Ok, as long as I can play NWN , and it won't be terrible, I'm fine [img]smile.gif[/img]

And NWN and Morrowind would be Unplayable with only 32 meg of video ram!!!!!
Also all new games that come will be almost unplayable to because new games are memory hungry beasts!

[Sir Goulum]

Originally posted by Megabot: quote: Originally posted by Sir Goulum: Ok, as long as I can play NWN , and it won't be terrible, I'm fine [img]smile.gif[/img]

And NWN and Morrowind would be Unplayable with only 32 meg of video ram!!!!!
Also all new games that come will be almost unplayable to because new games are memory hungry beasts! [/QUOTE]...Seriously? Is 48MB better?

[ 09-02-2002, 06:19 PM: Message edited by: Sir Goulum ]

[andrewas]

Originally posted by Megabot: No i cant see that it have a AGP slot available only two pci slots!

3 PCI slots total, 2 PCI slots free. NO mention of AGP slots at all.

Goulum, I woudnt try NWN with less than 64Mb. Ask at the shop if theres a machine for a similar price with better graphics (or a free slot and you can get graphics later).

[Sir Goulum]

Ok..I've got about 2 months to find a good computor, so theres no rush. Could you suggest a computor that has an AGP slot and is under $2000 canadian? I don't seem to have much luck finding one

[skywalker]

Have you checked out a Dell? http://www.dell.com/us/en/dhs/produc...n_desktops.htm

Mark

[Sir Goulum]

Originally posted by skywalker: Have you checked out a Dell? http://www.dell.com/us/en/dhs/produc...n_desktops.htm Mark

Yes, but I don't think my dad wants to do all the hassle of shipping it. [img]tongue.gif[/img]