Help With Buying a New PC Please

[anythinggoes]

For sale in a local shop brand New Targa Visionary PCX3400+ for ?399 with 3 year warranty is that good

note no screen printer included just computer

Spec

AMD64 Athlon 3400+ 2.2 Ghz Processor

nVidia Targa Mainboard Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 TA
Full ATX PCI/PCI-E board with Nvidia
NForce4 chipset Hypertransport 800

Toshiba DVD burner and CD Burner
DVD Multinorm and Dul layer technology
supports DVD+/-r/rw and DVD+r DL

DVD Rom reads 16x DVD 48x CD Rom

Siemens Memory 1024MB PC3200 DDR-400 RAM

300GB Harddrive ultra Fast 7200rpm
16MB Cache and Serial ATA

Windows XP home
DIVX
Pinnicle Systems
Nero
56k V390 Modem
EKL Super Silent Cooler
Realtek 7.1 Digital Surround
Bluetooth Dongle
USB wireless LAN dongle
9 in 1 memory card reader
120w Loudspeakers
chicony radarcam USB webcam
cordless kepboard and optical mouse
net headset

[pilferk]

Not sure about what prices are like over there for PC's, so it's hard to say.

It equates to about $700, U.S., which is more than I would pay for a machine with those specs, over here.  But not MUCH more, considering it's a prebuilt rack system.

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

30 year warranty ?

sounds expensive, but you got lots of little extras and all, get rid of all that, no ?

Targa mobo ain't a good idea.
video card ... hum ?

[anythinggoes]

30 year warranty ?

sounds expensive, but you got lots of little extras and all, get rid of all that, no ?

Targa mobo ain't a good idea.
video card ... hum ?

er yeah sorry 3 year warranty

price wise i was thinking its cheap over here an average system here is around ?600-700 but thats with say 120gb harddrive pentium flatscreen and printer

[Gunner80]

For a pre-built OEM system those specs aren't to bad.

[Butch Français]

buy a good one.

[chineseblues]

Its not really that good considering its only got a 2.2 gig processor. My old 3 gig processor was about $900 canadian and that included a dvd burner, 19inch screen etc..

[SLCPUNK]

30 year warranty ?

For a second I was thinking "Is this guy buying a roof or a computer?"

[Gunner80]

Its not really that good considering its only got a 2.2 gig processor. My old 3 gig processor was about $900 canadian and that included a dvd burner, 19inch screen etc..

A 2.2ghz athlon is epuivalent to a 3.2ghz Intel.

[the dirt]

Just buy a typewriter.

[chineseblues]

Its not really that good considering its only got a 2.2 gig processor. My old 3 gig processor was about $900 canadian and that included a dvd burner, 19inch screen etc..

A 2.2ghz athlon is epuivalent to a 3.2ghz Intel.

oh i thought it said 2.2 Intel lol

[themovieaddict.com]

It's expensive because it's got a 300 GB hard drive. That's a lot of hard drive, man! My old 2001 Dell I'm on right now only has 40 gigs.  2.2 GHZ isn't bad but you could do better, in fact a lot better to be honest. I like the idea of having such a huge hard drive but the other specs are just kinda average.

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

yeah you'll buy a external hard drive afterwards, no need such a big one in the system.

[jazjme]

30 year warranty ?

Havent even read all the thread, but I thought the same that was funny shit!

on topic
Getta fell, have one built sepcifically for what you want!


For a second I was thinking "Is this guy buying a roof or a computer?"

[Krispy Kreme]

Too expensive. You can buy a loaded machine now for less than $500 from Dell, which is about 250 pounds, or thereabouts.   A 30 year warranty is ridiculous and meaningless. Most people replace their computers every 3-4 years. At most.

[estranged.1098]

The Athlon 64 3400+ is a wonderful processor.

What do you plan to use that system for anyway? If you'd like to run games on it you should check out the video card (you didn't list any).

[anythinggoes]

The Athlon 64 3400+ is a wonderful processor.

What do you plan to use that system for anyway? If you'd like to run games on it you should check out the video card (you didn't list any).

i play games on games consoles cant be doing with using keyboards to move around things to fiddly. it would be used for the downloading and burning of DVDs and Cds mainly plus visiting this site and also transfering some of my VHS to DVD plus some other shit too i suppose

[Sin Cut]

The Athlon 64 3400+ is a wonderful processor.

What do you plan to use that system for anyway? If you'd like to run games on it you should check out the video card (you didn't list any).

i play games on games consoles cant be doing with using keyboards to move around things to fiddly. it would be used for the downloading and burning of DVDs and Cds mainly plus visiting this site and also transfering some of my VHS to DVD plus some other shit too i suppose

then you should find out is the DVD-drive dual or single layer burner.

As far as the price go it's difficult to say since we have a different currency here. Also if you plan to transfer vhs to DVD you need an input for that on your graphic card.

What I'd do is contact a company and tell them what you need and ask a few sets of examples and choose from there.