Pre Built Desktop ordered....

[newuser]

OK i broke down and ordered a new PC. I know how to build them, but my old one just crapped out (EPOX 8RDA+ board, 90% of the capacitors were blown...sent i back to epox for repair today) and kinda wanted something quickly. picked this one based on price and the fact it accepted 184 pin RAM, and had an AGP slot and price...

specs out pretty nice i think, and i have an acer laptop that has been nice...

.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16883103009

going to upgrade it with the following:
gonna transfer my corsair 512mb RAM on it to get 512MBx2 (CORSAIR MEMORY XMS PC 3200 DDR )

add in my second DVD/CD-RW Sony drive

Gainward/Card Expert 8x AGP Ti 4200, 3.6ns, 128 MB DDR (285/580 MHz) GeForce 4 (OLD!!!)

probably get a new sound card for it also

what do you think? not for hardcore gaming, mostly math/engineering programs.

specs on the ACER:
Brand Acer
Series AcerPower
Model S285
Processor Pentium4 524(3.06HGz)
Cache Per Processor 1MB L2 Cache
Memory 512MB
Hard Drive 80GB SATA
Optical Drive 1 DVD-Dual drive (DVD+/-RW)
Graphics SiS Mirage
Audio Realtek ALC655 AC'97 audio CODEC, 5.1-channel surround sound
Ethernet Gigabit LAN, Wake-on-LAN ready
Power Supply 300 watts
Keyboard PS/2-style keyboard
Mouse PS/2-style mouse
Operating System Windows XP Pro

Motherboard
Chipset SiS661FX
CPU
CPU Type Pentium 4
CPU FSB 533MHz
CPU Speed 3.06GHz
L2 Cache Per CPU 1MB
Graphics
GPU/VPU Type SiS Mirage
Graphics Interface AGP 4X/8X
Memory
Memory Capacity 512MB DDR
Form Factor DIMM 184-pin
Memory Spec 512MB x 1
Maximum Memory Supported 2GB
Hard Drive
HD Capacity 80GB
HD Interface SATA
HD RPM 7200rpm
Optical Drive
Optical Drive Type DVD-Dual drive (DVD+/-RW)
Audio
Audio Chipset Realtek ALC655 AC'97 audio CODEC
Audio Channels 6 channels
Audio Features 5.1-channel surround sound
Communications
LAN Speed 10/100/1000Mbps Text

 

[pkme2]

Up PSU to at least Fortron 450W. 300W is really too low and going to a Fortron is worth it.

 

[deathwalker]

Originally posted by: pkme2
Up PSU to at least Fortron 450W. 300W is really too low and going to a Fortron is worth it.

I agree...its a sickly Power supply and is destined for the junk pile. You will need to invest in an appropirate upgrade.

 

[imported_OrSin]

Your power supply is fine. People always want some one to get more.
300 will power any system fine that donw have a very new video card or 6 hard drives.

 

[newuser]

i have an extra P4 rated 350W two fan enermax PSU if you thin i should really swap it in...

will the 300W handle a SAPPHIRE 100577L-1 Radeon 9550 256MB DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card, and two HDD