Recently i have decided that I need to buy a decent PC as for the last 2-3 years I have been making do with a laptop.
I'm leaning towards a HP Pavilion P6020a as it is cheap and sounds to me to be fairly powerful (although i know next to nothing about computer hardware) and was wondering if I should get it or fork out an extra 5-600 to get a custom built one.
It's specs are:
* CPU - Intel Pentium Dual Processor E5200 2.5GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB, EM64T, Execute Disable Bit, EIST
* FSB - 800MHz
* STANDARD MEMORY - 2048MB DDR2
* HARD DRIVE - 320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive at 7200RPM
* OPTICAL DRIVE - SuperMulti DVDRW LS DL SATA Drive
* NETWORKING ⁄ WIRELESS - Integrated 10⁄100 BaseT network interface (Broadband Ready)
* GRAPHICS - nVidia GeForce 7100
* OPERATING SYSTEM - Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
Vista I can do without, but how does the rest size up? I do have more than enough money to upgrade it as necessary, but would rather not have to.
So, any thoughts?
I'm leaning towards a HP Pavilion P6020a as it is cheap and sounds to me to be fairly powerful (although i know next to nothing about computer hardware) and was wondering if I should get it or fork out an extra 5-600 to get a custom built one.
It's specs are:
* CPU - Intel Pentium Dual Processor E5200 2.5GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB, EM64T, Execute Disable Bit, EIST
* FSB - 800MHz
* STANDARD MEMORY - 2048MB DDR2
* HARD DRIVE - 320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive at 7200RPM
* OPTICAL DRIVE - SuperMulti DVDRW LS DL SATA Drive
* NETWORKING ⁄ WIRELESS - Integrated 10⁄100 BaseT network interface (Broadband Ready)
* GRAPHICS - nVidia GeForce 7100
* OPERATING SYSTEM - Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
Vista I can do without, but how does the rest size up? I do have more than enough money to upgrade it as necessary, but would rather not have to.
So, any thoughts?