Well the guy at best buy said this is good for gaming, I just wanna know if I got robbed or what. Paid if I remember correctly 1,600-1,800 for it, came with a HP vs 17e 17" Flat-Panel LCD Monitor. I'm pretty much a computer noob so I don't know how to get specs, I think those are specs, but if they are not can someone tell me how to get them? And is it going to be good enough to game without much lagg, if not how can I update it and what would the pricing on that be. EDIT - Okay full specs now
It's looks quite good. Nice amount of RAM and also a nice processor. It should be ok for gaming. Also how much did you pay for it because you could make that for around $800
If I remember correctly 1,600-1,800 for it, came with a HP vs 17e 17" Flat-Panel LCD Monitor. If it matters it came with an NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE
you probably got ripped bad tell me the mobo PSU RAM GPU CPU and if the BIOS is locked 7300 LE sucks you got ripped ALOT by like 500 bucks or more
It doesn't look to bad. I think its sorta of a good deal but you paid aleast 100-150 dollars over but the computer good. You should be able to play anything you want on medium settings or even medium high. (Yay I have 300 posts)
How do I find the actual specs BTK, I thought those were, and would I be better off upping this computer up or buying an Alienware. Also, is there anyway to get an Alienware tower thing without having to buy an AW?
WTF?! Thats an awesome comp! Conroe E6400 + 2 GB RAM!!! Its awesome for gaming. Plus, you got a monitor. Trust me, dont listen to these people. You got a great deal. EDIT: OK sorry, I didnt see your GFX card. I saw the E6400 and got excited. BTK is kinda right. 7300LE sucks. If you got a decent card, it wouldve been a good deal, but alas! AND BTW, y dont you ask us BEFORE you bought it??!!
to answer ur question yeah its fine for gaming, but your always gonna get ripped off when you buy a prebuilt pc, its how the company makes its money
you got anal raped 7300LE is utter crap also unless windows is misreporting, it looks like your system is running underclocked witht eh system bus running at 200mhz insteed of 266mhz(and the CPU and RAM running slower insteed) CPU even at that speed is allright though, compareable to a 3GHz Pentium D at 1.6GHz, compareable to a 4GHz Pentium D at 2.13GHz this is what I got for around $1000 though my graphics card is ----. I'm considering adding a 7900GS, an x1900GT, or an 8800GTS to it in about a month and a half. and FYI it's not a misreading, it really is running at 3.2GHz.
No, there is nothing wrong with his FSB. Heres whats happening: youve got something called intel speedstep enabled which decreases your CPU multiplier when the CPU load is low in order to save power. There is nothing wrong with your system...... ........ except the fact that you paid like twice the amount that you could have.
realistically it's around 300-400$ more than if he built it himself. also speedstep doesn't affect the readout from system properties in windows. I've manually edited the multiplier to 6 instead of the standard 8x multi to reduce clock speed by 800mhz and system properties still reads it lower. I have speed step enabled, but after my last BIOS flash CPUz no longer sees a frequency change, but if I disable speed step temps are slightly higher so its working(plus other utilities show the clock speed reduction as being effective as well). http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=150036 100% prime stable... primes at 20FSB higher than that too, but I like my extra margin of error when it comes to stability
OK then, so you think that his BIOS is corrupt? I mean, why would anyone want to decrease the FSB/multiplier on purpose?
i wouldn't say corrupt, the first culprit would be a windows misreading... an easy way to check would be to run CPUz
