Just bought A New Home PC.. (i think i paid too much)
 

I just went to hp.com and said fuck it and bought a new PC for the Home. $2700.00
P4 3.6 Ghz


Compaq Presario SA4000T series customize desktop PC
- Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Home Edition
- Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 560 with HT Tech (3.6 GHz)
- 2 GB DDR2-533 RAM / PC2 4200 (4 DIMM)
- 320 GB RAID 0 (2 x 160GB SATA HDDs) - Performance
- 160 GB 7200 rpm HP Personal Media Drive
- Double Layer 8X DVD+RW/+R drive
- 48X max. CD-ROM Drive
- Front USB, Firewire and Audio Ports
- 3.5 in. 1.44MB Floppy Drive
- 256MB DDR ATI Radeon X600 Pro with TV-Out and DVI
- Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS card w/Front Audio ports
- Compaq Home Professional Keyboard and Opt Mouse
- KLIPSCH ProMedia 2.1 Speakers
- Microsoft(R) Works 7.0/Money 2004/MSN Encarta Plus
- hpshopping in-box envelope

Memory Speed is 4200

only thing that suck is the video card, otherwise, great pc!

For what you got the price seems decent (since you didn't build it yourself). Now compare what you have to Alienware www.alienware.com and you'll feel better about how much you spent.

nice machine! did you order mine too?

The price isn't too bad for what you got, but I wouldn't have gone with a Compaq.

nice just expect the cd rom to go out in about a year

naw thats pretty good. its a shitload of ram and a big vid card.. that machine should last a wile withough haveing to to alota upgrades... my only complaint is its a compaq. other then that looks good

That's not bad Bone, especially with the X600 (still not up too much on the PCI-E cards)

I think you got a decent deal.

I paid about 3k euro for mines but i'm in Holland :thumbsup

I had my card out.. I was gunna put $1000.00 into my sportsbook account , but said fuck it, and went to hp.com instead and bought a PC instead.

I feel kinda proud of myself.


I still have no idea how im gunna handle Vegas next week.

I have a feeling Ill be buying a lot of shit to keep me from gambling.

Ill take my camrea and pics of all the toys and crap I buy while im there.

Should be intresting.

Does that video card suck?? Is that the same as the graphics card?? I paid extra for that, got the most expensive one on the list..

Is it bad?

I knew you paid too much the instant I saw Compaq...

I've had more trouble with them than any other computer I've had or tinkered with.

Yeah fuck those guys..

Ive bought from em before.

Im not a newbie.

Yeah I bought one back in 2001 back when PC's were breaking that 1 Ghz barrier.. Paid 1500.00 for it, didnt like it and then gave it away..

For free I gave it away..

Gave it to dank.

15 months later he threw it in the river, becasue he thought the FBI was after em and his hard drive would be looked at.

LOL.


This one better not be like that one in 2001.

But My current home PC will still be around, and I bought a nice Fujitsu laptop 2 weeks ago for 2k that is unreal... I love it.

I just hope this new one is a beast.

bp,


it depends on what you are going to do with that PC


When you are going to use 3D studio Max and when you want to do some video editing then i would have taken a different card but it's a nice configuration


The 2Gb RAM is kinda useless because Win XP only uses 1Gb of it max


My :2 cents:


tb

Serious??

I use mine as a cupholder on my current PC and it still works fine

sounds like you got a good deal.

Great..

Yeah i used to own one in 2001 and said id never buy one again.

But back then it was a totally different company.

I also have some warranties on this one unlike before

Well fuck...

Why didnt these mother fuckers tell me that?

It cant use the 2 gig?

The ProMedia line from Klipsch doesn't come cheap, even for just the 2.1 system (which I prefer anyways)

Yeah i noticed that.

Its double or tripple the price of any other speaker system. Way more than the competition's 5.1 speaker systems.

But it seems its way more powerful.. 200 watt on the 2.1 alone.

Shit better be good.

Id rather have 3 powerful quality speakers than 6 or 7 or whatever the fuck those other speakers come with.

I dont want speakers all over my office. I want quality and power with fewer speakers and this is supposed to be the BEST.

Can anyone else confirm for me the 2 gig of RAM thing??

That Win XP can only use 1 gig max anyhow so i just wasted my 200.00 or so bucks on getting 2 gig?

I remeber hearling this back in the day with the older PC's and operationg systems but thought XP could use it?

good setup.

http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/images.../2twocents.gif

Do you edit video? because that is a lot of HD space

That's one expensive Compaq.

I have 2 gigs running right now, XP SP2. Both Home and Pro can handle up to 4 gigs.

Yeah i want to..

Thats why i bought this shit.

I hope to learn. ... But im so fucking lazy and i never get around to it.

Maybe this will get me goin.

I hope.

well you cant go wrong with HP support. They own Dell, Gateway, ALienware, any1 in the support arena... they are really good.

Yeah but the dude in the above post was saying XP cant utilze more than a GIG of RAM.. So 2 Gig is a total waste since it cant even break the 1 gig barrier.

True?

Yeah thats why i bought it...

My old Home PC is Alienware, and the other is HP..

The HP is what I love. Been using hp at home since 1999.

False. See my edit above, it can support up to 4 gigs.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p.../features.mspx

See "Scalable memory and processor support"

hp > *

Nice setup, I didn't know those 3.6 CPU's were even available yet. If I'd have seen that I might have bought it as well. Your system will smoke for video work with the RAID 0.

XP can use 2gigs of RAM no problem. Most boards can only support a maximum of 4 so the limit is the hardware not the OS.

I just ordered a P4 Extreme Edition 3.4 CPU which I intend to clock up to 3.6. At these speeds the Intel chips are the fastest available.

Ahhh..

Thanks man.

You're fine. Right click on My Computer and click properties. Does it say you have 2GB of ram? I bet it does :)

Yeah i didnt know the 3.6 was out yet either...

I was just surfing around and saw it.. The other PC sites didnt have em for sale yet. Just compac.. SO i got it.

it will work fine with 2gb in it but i don't think you will ever use more than 1gb exspecially with win xp home running.





btw is it 2 x 1gb or 1 x 2gb


Because when you have 2x 1gb you have at least dual channel (faster use of your memory)



Tb

muthafucka , he just bought a comp for 2.7k , gimme your old pc ! :glugglug

I dont have it yet. I just bought it..

Wont be delivered till late next week.

Ahh, I see.. Well like everyone said above, 2GB is fine with XP home.

Fuck not sure?? Damn.. I know its expandable to 4 gig.
Shit, does that mean that it has 4 slots and they put in 4 512's???

2 GB DDR2-533 RAM / PC2 4200 (4 DIMM)


Is that bad?

k i was only trying to tell you it's unlikely you are are to use more than 1Gb of that memory (your system will work fine with 2gb)



only while doing high scientific calculations or high end video editing your going to break that 1Gb of used memory


Sorry about scaring you bp :)



TB

It has to be matched sets. So it is either 2x1 gb or 4x512. I have 4x512 and it rocks.

Windows itself only uses roughly 1gig max, but other applications cna use the rest no problem.

btw the link was about win xp Pro and you have home


wait bp i'm going to check hp about that slots question

windows itself 'alone' will never use 1gb

my :2 cents:

HP specs wrote


so they filled the 4 slots with 512Mb RAM


Good job because then the dual channel (faster access to the memory) can be used

so they did good?

that's a pretty powerful pc. It made me think about upgrading mine shortly :glugglug