Buy New Comp, Enough power ?

[Nomar]

ok I am about to buy this but I wanted to run it by you guys first. Does this have enough power to play 2 games run poker tracker watch a movie download porn and surf 2+2 AT THE SAME TIME ?

ThinkCentre A55 Tower - 1 Year Depot Warranty
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Ships within 1-2 weeks** $1,243.50 $1,243.50

Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core E2160 Processor (1.8GHz 800MHz FSB 1MB L2)
Genuine Windows Vista Home Basic[12]
Mechanical Package Tower 4x4 no FDD
4GB PC2-5300 SDRAM (2 DIMMs)[8]
ATI Radeon X1300 256MB ( S-Video,DMS-59)
500GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200RPM Serial ATA[4]
DVD Recordable SATA No Software / No Royalty for VISTA Models ONLY[23]
Integrated Gigabit Ethernet
1 Year Limited Warranty[7]
Processor Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core E2160 Processor (1.8GHz 800MHz FSB 1MB L2)
Operating system[12] Genuine Windows Vista Home Basic
Operating system language Genuine Windows Vista Home Basic - US English
Form factor Mechanical Package Tower 4x4 no FDD
Total memory[8] 4GB PC2-5300 SDRAM (2 DIMMs)
Video adapter ATI Radeon X1300 256MB ( S-Video,DMS-59)
Display support DMS59 to Dual VGA Dongle
Audio adapter Integrated SoundMax w/SPX Audio (ADI 1986 HD)
First hard drive bay[4] 500GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200RPM Serial ATA
First optical device bay[23] DVD Recordable SATA No Software / No Royalty for VISTA Models ONLY
Second optical device bay DVD Recordable SATA No Software / No Royalty for VISTA Models ONLY
Networking Integrated Gigabit Ethernet
Keyboard Lenovo Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Kit - US English
Pointing device Lenovo Optical Wheel Mouse USB
Power cord Line Cord - US
Publications pack Language Pack - English
Microsoft productivity software preload Microsoft Office 2007 Basic - US English KEY

any thing I forgot ? anything I absolutely dont need and never will ?

[Beavis68]

you will get a better bang for the buck by upgrading the processor to a Core2 Duo over the RAM upgrade.

[Nomar]

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you will get a better bang for the buck by upgrading the processor to a Core2 Duo over the RAM upgrade.


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can i do both ? is it worth it ?

[Nomar]

ok how is this now ?

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6700 Processor (2.66GHz 1066MHz FSB 4MB L2)
Genuine Windows XP Home Edition[12]
Mechanical Package Tower 4x4 no FDD
4GB PC2-5300 SDRAM (2 DIMMs)[8]
ATI Radeon X1300 256MB ( S-Video,DMS-59)
500GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200RPM Serial ATA[4]
DVD Recordable with WinDVD Software[23]
Integrated Gigabit Ethernet
1 Year Limited Warranty

[Beavis68]

That E6700 is pretty damn good. You could probably get an E6400 and be pretty happy with it too.

Do you realize that you will actually only be able to use about 3.2GB of the 4GB of RAM unless you are running a 64-bit OS? 2-3GB will be plenty of RAM.

[TomHimself]

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That E6700 is pretty damn good. You could probably get an E6400 and be pretty happy with it too.

Do you realize that you will actually only be able to use about 3.2GB of the 4GB of RAM unless you are running a 64-bit OS? 2-3GB will be plenty of RAM.

[/ QUOTE ]beavis ive seen u post this a couple times but im pretty sure u dont need a 64 bit OS to operate the whole 4gb

[Beavis68]

u do, it has been explained everywhere, google it.

I am not the only one that has posted it either. A 32-bit OS can only address 4GB, but the system uses memomory addresses for things other than RAM. I have seen results from 3.2GB to 3.5GB of usable RAM. It will still function, you just can't access it all. Which really isn't a problem because 4GB is overkill for most people.


http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000811.html

[TomHimself]

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u do, it has been explained everywhere, google it.

I am not the only one that has posted it either. A 32-bit OS can only address 4GB, but the system uses memomory addresses for things other than RAM. I have seen results from 3.2GB to 3.5GB of usable RAM. It will still function, you just can't access it all. Which really isn't a problem because 4GB is overkill for most people.


http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000811.html

[/ QUOTE ]then why do people have 8gb desktops, say mac pros?

[Beavis68]

64 bit OS or system virtualization.

The mac pro is dual quad core processors. Each processor can be viruatlized as it's own system and each can address 4GB. I doubt that the full 8GB is usable.