Is this a decent pc at a decent price ?

[Abarbarian]

Specification

- AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2 x 2GHz processor

- NVIDIA® nForce® chipset

- 1GB DDR2 Ram Memory

- 160GB Hard Drive

- 56K Fax/Modem

- 10/100 Mbps built-in Ethernet

- DVD Rewriter ±R/±RW. Dual layer

- Integrated 7.1 sound solution

- NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Graphics with up to 256MB shared video memory

- 6 USB 2.0 ports (2 on front), 1 Serial, 1 Parallel, 2 PS/2 and Audio-In & Out plus 2 Firewire ports

- 1 x PCI Express graphics slot, 1 x 1X PCI Express, 2 x PCI

- Supplied with Keyboard & Mouse

- Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Centre Edition Software, Symantec Norton® AntiVirus 2006, Adobe® Acrobat® Reader®, 7.0, Cyberlink® Power DVD 6, NTI CD-Maker™ Gold, Self Burn, Recovery, Acer Empowering Framework, Acer eRecovery Management, Acer eDataSecurity Management, Acer ePerformance Management, Acer e-Mode, Acer e-Console.

- Acer open boxed product, package as brand new and supplied with 1 Year Warranty.


£ 249.00 ex VAT ( £ 292.58 inc VAT)

Subtotal: £ 249.00
Shipping: £ 16.00
VAT (17.50%): £ 46.38
Order total: £ 311.38

 

[Alf]

im asumming that the mobo is a nForce 4?
at that price i would think the video card to be a bit more 'flashy' . like a 6600 or even a 6800
other wise i think its about right.

 

[Abarbarian]

As far as I can tell the graphics are on -board ,


"However the on board Nvidia GeForce 256Mb 6100 GPU will give you plenty off time until you get a proper additional PCI-E 16x Graphics Card... the advantages are above, but you will also get back an extra 256Mb of system memory that the on board GPU takes from you 1GB DDR2 RAM, so I thought it was important for you to know that".

 

[Alf]

Is this what you are upgradeing too?
or is this just asking?

 

[V_R]

If you can you could ditch the 56k modem.

From Acer? Hmmm Gotta lnk?

 

[Abarbarian]

Was looking at it for a friend , seemed pretty good value for what you get . Its a MSI MCP61SM mobo which I think is an Acer oem board and I can't seem to find any more info than that about it .
Was half thinking of buying it and replacing the one I've just built .

Links here ,

http://www.computerbargains.co.uk/store1/customer/product.php?productid=16784&cat=255&page=1

 

[Harry5]

Yeah decent! Id buy it if I was looking to buy a pc within that price range