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Dad bought this emachine at bestbuy

Thats a very good system for your mom. Its a 64bit Sempron with all the latest bells and whistles, built in GF6100, very sweet.
 
Some of my friends are getting the T6420 (x64 Athlon) with 17" LCD monitor for $649.97 at our local Costco.
For a startup, your mom got a great buy.
 
It could be very much turned into a gaming PC. Has PCIe 16x slots. All it needs is a gig of ram and a 6600gt to be a decent rig. She is gonna use it to play with the internet and her "calander".
 
Unless you plan on adding the PCIe video and doing some gaming, I wouldn't get 1gb of ram. Just add another 256mb stick to make 512mb, that will be plenty for everything except gaming.
 
Originally posted by: diapickle
up to 128MB of shared video memory
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WTF does that mean?
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It means the integrated graphics doesn't have dedicated video memory, instead it shares up to 128MB of your main memory. Since this is done over the PCI express bus, the performance is pretty good. Same as a turbocache geforce card.
 
Pretty good deal (If you do receive the rebates) for your mom, but in terms of playing games or upgrading, your in the pitts. The integrated graphics basically means it probably doesnt have a agp or pci slot for a decent vid card and is lacking in other sorts of miscellaneous things

Edit ^ and i agree with guitardaddy, 512mb will be plenty for almost any app. on that comp. other than games.
 
Originally posted by: DerelictDev
Pretty good deal (If you do receive the rebates) for your mom, but in terms of playing games or upgrading, your in the pitts. The integrated graphics basically means it probably doesnt have a agp or pci slot for a decent vid card and is lacking in other sorts of miscellaneous things

Edit ^ and i agree with guitardaddy, 512mb will be plenty for almost any app. on that comp. other than games.
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I already stated that it has a PCIe 16x slot 🙂

And its not for gaming.

I do agree that 1gig is a bit of overkill. 512mb should be more than enough for her.
 
He didn't get anything else along with it? Service plans and such. (Just wondering I used to work at BB.)

Actaully one of the nice things I noticed at BB is that the AMD systems have atleast an AGP slot. (Semprons may have PCIE) THe Intel ones might not though.
 
Originally posted by: Ayah
gaming is nonexistant on that.
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that's why you buy upgrades for it, smart one. Nowhere can you build your own for better then that for its price. The purpose of a PC is not just for gaming, you know?
 
Originally posted by: TriggerHappy101
Originally posted by: DerelictDev
Pretty good deal (If you do receive the rebates) for your mom, but in terms of playing games or upgrading, your in the pitts. The integrated graphics basically means it probably doesnt have a agp or pci slot for a decent vid card and is lacking in other sorts of miscellaneous things

Edit ^ and i agree with guitardaddy, 512mb will be plenty for almost any app. on that comp. other than games.
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I already stated that it has a PCIe 16x slot 🙂

And its not for gaming.

I do agree that 1gig is a bit of overkill. 512mb should be more than enough for her.
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Ram is pretty cheap at the mo. So why not get a gig? It'll come in useful down the road and prices will probably go up anyway when AMD move over tro ddr2.
 
Originally posted by: Mik3y
Originally posted by: CalamitySymphony
I got a similarly speced laptop for $450.

Personally, for everyday tasks, can't beat laptops.
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black friday deal?
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Nope, just Dell Outlet. 15.4 inch LCD, 512 RAM, B/G Wireless, 40 gb HD, XP Home, CDRW/DVD etc for $450 shipped.

It was a good deal that I snatched up right when I saw it, but you can get the same thing for maybe $75-$100 more all the time.
 
I recommend 1GB of RAM. My mom's laptop has 512MB RAM running Windows XP, and when I try to run Azureus, Winamp, Firefox, Trillian, and antispyware/antivirus apps on it, it pretty much slows down to a crawl. Maybe your mom won't be running so much at one time, but I would still consider 1GB, because DDR prices won't be going any lower. DDR2 is becoming more mainstream, especially with the relase of Socket AM2.
 
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