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I'm supposed to be getting one from my dad soon. Its a PC2100 and is Pentium 4 or the AMD equilvalent. It has 512 Ram.

Is this a good machine?
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It's that old?

Well it's an improvement over this one. It's 98. It had 98 on it(XP now) and its Pentium 2 320MHz 320 RAM.
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The best it can do is your basic computer activities such as browsing the internet and typing up assignments. You also have to hope it doesn't die on you while you're using it.
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Depends all on what you want to do with it really. Unfortunately though most things will have you hard-pressed for resources. Modern Operating Systems use up a good amount of the power you have there in themselves, so I'd suggest you use Windows XP on it if that's an option at all. Imo XP is a great OS anyway so you're all set there. Basically what the above said; limit yourself to browsing the internet or doing some work in Office and you're set. But good luck with multitasking, playing games, or being creative. :x
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I don't play games. I make them and stuff like that. If I can kinda do that on this machine I should be able to pull more off on the other.
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Those specs would work fine just to surf the internet. xD;

Honestly, if you can save up around $300 you can get an eMachines tower that has a 600 GB harddrive, and 4 Gigs of RAM. That's their typical price for them, and it's a pretty decent deal. I remember when comps like that used to cost around $1,000.


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Yeah too bad I dont have a job. But its free so I can't complain. Besides this computer can do some of the things I want to accomplish, I'm sure the other one could do them better and a little more.

Time will tell. I'm getting it sometime next week.
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Sounds like a pretty old machine there (no offense). You can just use it for surfing the web and working on school assignments. Unfortunately, you can't try out your favorite game there, because that may eat up most of your RAM and the computer won't handle it.

As far as the actual computer goes, an EMachine computer is an alright computer. I never had any problems with it. As you mentioned, you could pull off more than what this computer currently has.

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Sounds like a pretty old machine there (no offense). You can just use it for surfing the web and working on school assignments. Unfortunately, you can't try out your favorite game there, because that may eat up most of your RAM and the computer won't handle it.

As far as the actual computer goes, an EMachine computer is an alright computer. I never had any problems with it. As you mentioned, you could pull off more than what this computer currently has.
Yeah this is old. I've updated from times. I built it when I was in 5th grade(just finished High school now). So its been here for awhile. The drives may randolmy make a noise and become un-operable. I think it's the machines fault. I have both drives running on low power because high power it crashes for some reason(never did that until I had a nasty virus and had to install XP over 2 times)

But at times its not that bad, I just want to do more. Hopefully eMachine gives me want I want. Alot of good things run with Pentium 4, it's just that I have to upgrade RAM when I get the chance. DDR is more expensive than DDR2 so I shouldnt have a problem finding RAM for DDR. It only has two slots where this one has 3 or 4 I believe. That's the only downfall.
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My philosophy on something like this would be that if what you have is getting you by with no problems, then the one you're getting will probably be more than good enough for what you need.

Also, I remember when a system with a 5GB HDD, 400MHz processor, and 128MB of RAM used to be upwards $2,000. It's amazing what you can get in a computer for less, now.


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Yes it's getting me by, but it has limitations.

The only thing I'm worried about on this next one is that I heard eMachines PSU's are faulty/cheap and break more easliy. I don't want to have to move everything over and start on a nice fast clean state only to have to end up replacing the PSU or motherboard(if it just so happens to fry in the process).
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What is the model of this eMachines PC? The only results I'm getting are for RAM sticks for an eMachines PC when I search for "eMachines PC2100" in Google. That's probably the RAM type it comes with, not the model.

Also, most manufacturers give their machines underpowered power supplies (which, quite frankly, sucks), though I think 350 watts is plenty sufficient for your system if you're really worried about that, but if your PC happens to be a special form factor, the price of a power supply is going to be just as much as replacing it with a newer system entirely.

And the reason DDR is more expensive than DDR 2 is because it's an older technology and it's not selling as much due to that.

That all said, I wouldn't pay more than $50 for the system you're eying.
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I didn't say that was the model, just pointing it out.

I honestly don't know the model. My dad lives 2 hours away and it got shipped today from fedex ground. It probally shouldn't take more than 2-3 days. I'll know than, but I'm going to open it and check it out. I might use the one supplied in this one(that might be a bad idea, not to mention I don't know the wattage) it could fry it before hand if it can't keep up with Pentium 4.

Quick question.
I have a G4MX440 MSI Nvidia card lying around. Never used it because it doesn't fit in this machine. I'm currently using Nvidia TNT Riva 2 model 64 pro. Dispite the fact the first card has TV out support, which card is better?
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I didn't say that was the model, just pointing it out.

I honestly don't know the model. My dad lives 2 hours away and it got shipped today from fedex ground. It probally shouldn't take more than 2-3 days. I'll know than, but I'm going to open it and check it out. I might use the one supplied in this one(that might be a bad idea, not to mention I don't know the wattage) it could fry it before hand if it can't keep up with Pentium 4.

Quick question.
I have a G4MX440 MSI Nvidia card lying around. Never used it because it doesn't fit in this machine. I'm currently using Nvidia TNT Riva 2 model 64 pro. Dispite the fact the first card has TV out support, which card is better?
"Its a PC2100" reads like your saying that's the model.

You're probably better off using the PSU that comes with it.

Depends. How much video ram does your Riva 2 have?

Though it won't matter if your Riva 2 doesn't actually fit into your new computer.
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It has 32Mb, not sure about the other card.

The eMachines usually have intefrated gfx chips so I probally wont be able to insert one anyway. I hope that isn't the case. I'd really like to hook it up to my TV.
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The other card has 64 MB of video RAM.

As long as it has the right expansion slots on the motherboard, you should be able to fit it in, as long as the form factor of the card matches the form factor of the case (which it probably will, considering it's an eMachine PC).
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the riva 2 isnt meant for my machine and barely fits in all the way and works fine. even though the 64mb has more ram i dont think it makes it better, graphics may be worse right?
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the riva 2 isnt meant for my machine and barely fits in all the way and works fine. even though the 64mb has more ram i dont think it makes it better, graphics may be worse right?
Having more RAM means it has more space to load the video data onto, which allows it to process the graphic data faster, which, since both cards are quite old, means that the one with more RAM is likely also the one with a faster on-card GPU. For video, the better measurement is typically the amount of RAM on the card.
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wow, thanks for the info. you can never know to much about machines. anyway, i'll be sure to post updates of the computer when it comes.
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yeah but they're all i have. i have a crappy ati graphics card from 98, its so crappy that it doesn't deserve to be a component.
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yeah but they're all i have. i have a crappy ati graphics card from 98, its so crappy that it doesn't deserve to be a component.
I didn't mean to talk them down, I was just making it clear that although the MX440 flattens the TNT2, I didn't want you to expect much from it.

For basic use, the MX440 will be fine.

Did you work out what CPU it had? Out of pure curiosity. :D

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just got it. its a model t3042, i think i heard bad about it.
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