Walmart Desktops....wow

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While i was at Walmart, i was just browsing through the computers they had, there was one with 3GB DDR3 Memory, 1 TB Hard Drive, Radeon 4200 integrated, and an Amd athlon II X2 processor. Guess what the price was? 500$.
That, (to me) is incredibly cheap. No monitor, but thats no biggy. I would actually consider that NOT to be an everyday computer.
The comp itself was an eMachines, which now may be my favorite everyday computer company. And, i love Walmart XD
 
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5GB would mean no dual channel, which limits your overall performance. Probably a hitachi/maxtor drive, and 5400rpm at that. Radeon 4200 is not all that good. No mention of motherboard make/model, or RAM make/model, and most importantly, zero mention of a powersupply. eMachines... I've heard some real horror stories about their support.

You can do better:

CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...871&cm_re=athlon_ii_x4-_-19-103-871-_-Product

Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&cm_re=am3_motherboard-_-13-157-191-_-Product

RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...0145260&cm_re=4gb_ddr3-_-20-145-260-_-Product

GPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130572&cm_re=gts_450-_-14-130-572-_-Product

HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2185&cm_re=samsung_1tb-_-22-152-185-_-Product

PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...072&cm_re=seasonic_psu-_-17-151-072-_-Product

Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...m_re=coolermaster_case-_-11-119-203-_-Product

Total: $537.93

You get a quadcore cpu, good amount of fast memory, the fastest and cheapest 1tb drive on the market, a respectable graphics card capable of gaming, and more importantly, A quality motherboard and power supply, the most important components of any computer.

It may cost $40 more, but you won't be replacing it 6 months down the line when the power supply blows up or the motherboard dies, or both.

Plus, all the components are easily upgradable. Get another $500 6 months down the line? Buy another kit of RAM for 8GB, a beefier power supply and a new graphics card, and you have a full blown gaming machine.
 
I agree with Tremmor, $500 for a machine that is essentially only useful for email and surfing the web...

not worth it~
 
true. Now that you mention it, it sounds like their trying to make the comp look good, but actually rip the people off, that is, if someone actually mods them...
 
Emachines aren't designed for gamers--they are for the basic internet use and very basic home usage. Of course the info Linkin gave for a system was close to same price---but where was the OS?? I've had an emachine about 5 yrs ago-was good for the purpose it was designed for.
 
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Emachines aren't designed for gamers--they are for the basic internet use and very basic home usage. Of course the info Linkin gave for a system was close to same price---but where was the OS?? I've had an emachine about 5 yrs ago-was good for the purpose it was designed for.
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Wouldnt be hard to get an OS for little to no money. And until you found that use ubuntu
 
well, you could just buy windows 7 for $100. Then you are set. Ubuntu is great anyway. either way your up and running for less than 800 and have a machine that would kick a prebuilt 1k range systems butt around the block.
 
Also, just about every part in there is generic, meaning it'll go bad in about a year... and then they'll charge you 100$ for a new mobo, 150$ for new memory, and 70$ for a new CD drive (those are the prices I've heard for Dell parts being replaced)
 
Yeah the OS isn't an issue. I mean Microsoft even offers student discounts on Windows 7, meaning you can get the Home premium edition (Which is all 99% of people really need anyway.) for something like $30-$40. Not to mention the computer linkin posted isn't even comparble in performance terms. Its like saying a Porsche and a Toyota are in the same performance bracket. A similarly spec'd system to the eMachines would probably clock in about $300-$350 and still be leagues better in terms of the quality of parts.
 
I don't know about that one particularly, but I've worked on emachines before desktops and laptops and if anything ever goes out on it drivers are nearly impossible to find due to the garbage components they put in them. One laptop I did I never did find a sound driver for it, those machines are a total money pit!
 
Emachines, Acer, and Gateway are all the same company now. They're all awful. Gateway used to be good, but I think they started to go bad around 2003. Now they're terrible. In fact, I'd go out on a limb and say that even HP is going downhill. They've turned Compaq into a joke, and now even the computers they brand under HP are starting to leech over onto the crap side. Dell went bad for a while, and I think they're starting to recover, but IMHO the only brands you can really trust are Asus and Sony. You can also trust Toshiba nowadays, but not any of their ultra-cheap laptops.

/rant :P
 
Acer suffers from bad quality control. The one I have didn't have the video cable properly attached, so I had to fix that.
 
ScottALot said:
Also, just about every part in there is generic, meaning it'll go bad in about a year... and then they'll charge you 100$ for a new mobo, 150$ for new memory, and 70$ for a new CD drive (those are the prices I've heard for Dell parts being replaced)
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I couldn't agree more. I got 2x 2GB Memory sticks for free, put them in.
mobo is fine, the only bad thing is the power supply....It SUCKS
 
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