Diego

This is from walmart but looks good and yes it is a emachines.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...3A3951%3A41937

Johnnyboy0056

1. Emachines is known for using crappy components to cut down the price.
2. The video card is not going to run many games well these days.
3. The processor is sluggish....pretty bad (2.0 ghz and 333 mhz fsb= pretty crappy)
4. Note....the monitor is still the big box one...its a flat SCREEN, not a flat PANEL
5. speakers are not gonna sound good playing anything.

What do you plan on using this computer for? by the time you upgrade this computer to decent, you may find yourself out another couple hundred dollars....maybe more.

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Lax

1. eMachines is known for using those parts just FOR that reason, price.
2. The Video card is old because it's an old eMachine (pretty old at that). All the new ones come with either an X600 or and X800 for the top models.
3. It's a sempron, it's good if you know how to use it.
4. The monitor alone would cost about 100-200$ new so it's a deal already.
5. Speakers are speakers, they will play anything and they will sound fine so long as you don't try and max 'em out.

A new GFx card would be 100-250$ depending on what you buy and depending on whether or not the board has PCIe (which I don't believe it does.) The CPU will be fine even for light play of the newest games seeing as how most of them are now graphically and memory dependant (I can run doom 3 on my old 2Ghz machine fine). If anything you could buy the machine and strip it down and just use those parts in one you could build yourself. I'd buy it just for the monitor, ram, HDD, and 8-in-1 reader (along with that combo drive). If you ever plan on upgrading then you may want to build your own. If you're going to use the machine as is for a while; buy it, it's an ok deal. (Mind you the new ones are also pretty cheap so look around a bit first).

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