Can't see a down side on this deal. How do these hold up?
webazoid
Senior Member
posted: Jun. 13, 2005 @ 12:24p
does this have dvi output?
Nube02
Senior Member
posted: Jun. 13, 2005 @ 12:48p
You can get a deal for about the same price and it includes monitor.Linky
tbogstad
Senior Member
posted: Jun. 13, 2005 @ 12:50p
great deal, almost as good as the sempron 3000+ system for $240.00 with no rebates 3 weeks ago.
i sold all 4 of those already, i might pick up 2 of these to resell for $500.00 a peice.
this is good because this is a 754 socket A64 BASED MOTHERBOARD, most likely a Via Km800 chipset, i will hit the store today and find out.
tbogstad
Senior Member
posted: Jun. 13, 2005 @ 12:55p
Nube02 said:You can get a deal for about the same price and it includes monitor.Linky
that Dell deal is not as good, its the oldass celery 2.4ghz 400fsb, not the celery D, even the celery D is not as fast as a A64 based sempron 3100+. also the Dell only has a 90 day warranty. and no dvd-rw drive, this is a much better deal. unless you are a Intel idiot and have to buy crappy slowass intel computers, because of brain washing buy the 3man group.
legirons
Ancient Member
posted: Jun. 13, 2005 @ 1:43p
crappy slowass intel computers, Now those are words I can understand! I was wondering how that other deal was a better deal. Looks like I'm off to Circuit City! Thanks!
dniksich
Senior Member - 1K
posted: Jun. 13, 2005 @ 1:46p
Please don't turn this into another AMD vs Intel thread.
dentee
Happy Member
posted: Jun. 13, 2005 @ 2:57p
Thanks OP, I got one I think it's a hot deal. I've had an older model emachines for a few years and it's never given me any problems.
kharvel
Senior Member - 3K
posted: Jun. 13, 2005 @ 3:06p
dniksich said:Please don't turn this into another AMD vs Intel thread.
What difference does it make? They run the same operating system, anyway, right?
Brodequin
Member
posted: Jun. 13, 2005 @ 3:22p
I wonder what is in the occupied PCI slot. Probably the modem?
Zdog
Broke Member
posted: Jun. 13, 2005 @ 6:24p
will the Best Buy Kingston 512M DDR 333 for $30 work in this machine?
aero1
Ancient Member
posted: Jun. 14, 2005 @ 9:13a
Nube02 said:You can get a deal for about the same price and it includes monitor.Linky
wrong. the Dell has no agp ie way to efficiently better the video. also the emachines has a dvd writer adn teh Dell does not. that is a $45 difference in favor of the emachine right there
ellory
Thrifty Member
posted: Jun. 14, 2005 @ 11:45a
Picked one up. Now to put in a FAR MadDog AGP card I picked up a while back and to find 512MB of cheap memory
tbogstad
Senior Member
posted: Jun. 14, 2005 @ 11:59a
I picked one up.
it is indeed a K8m800 chipset A64 compatible motherboard, it is a "FIC" I beleive just like the Office Depot $230.00 computer from 4 weeks ago.
It does have a AGP 8X slot. It does not have fireware, or atleast mine does not. the 56K modem is the only PCI card in it, so it has 2 free PCI slots. i did not check the ram yet to see if it is pc2700 or pc3200, it could be either, you would hope it is pc3200, but you never know.
Now if somebody would post a modified bios so this could be overclocked, mose sempron 745 socket cpu's will do 400mhz to 800MHZ above ther rated speed.
probably this motherboard, but i will have to look again.
mugimba
Senior Member - 4K
posted: Jun. 14, 2005 @ 12:08p
Hmmmm...seems pretty good.
tbogstad
Senior Member
posted: Jun. 14, 2005 @ 12:18p
correction, this is indeed the fic motherboard with sata150 raid and firewire.
it is a K8M-800M snd should be flashable with the bios on FIC website. this is getting better all the time.
it also has the exact same pc3200 samsung ram as was in the Office Depot deal a month ago.
so this should be runnig full speed. i still have not booted it up yet, will do in just a minute.
it has a extra case fan on the back for better cooling, i do't know why though cause the sempron 3100+ socket 754 probably runs cooler than the socket A sempron 3000+.
if this thing overclocks well, this will be a awesome deal, for a super cheap start to a gaming rig.
legirons
Ancient Member
posted: Jun. 14, 2005 @ 1:01p
tbogstad, did I read you right that this does have a firewire port? Thanks!
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