Comments | orochiyamazaki: Lots of RAM Makes Me Happy!

orochiyamazaki

Lots of RAM Makes Me Happy!

Feb 26, 2009 13:41

I've recently picked up a new day-to-day task workstation, at my main office, and it's a pretty good system for the price. $260 (including tax & shipping) for a recertfied system featuring a dual-core Intel 1.8GHZ socket 775 CPU, 2 GB PC2-5300, GeForce 6200 with 256mb, 350GB 7,200RPM SATA hard drive, DVD±RW dual layer drive, onboard 5.1 audio & ( Read more... )

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yoric February 26 2009, 20:57:01 UTC

Where did you get this? I'm hopeing to get a new pc sometime after finances level out after the wedding, and any recomendations would be good.

orochiyamazaki February 26 2009, 21:38:29 UTC

I get a volume discount at Tigerdirect.com, through my client. But, their regular prices are really low, anyways. Last holiday season, I helped several employees pick out modest PCs for their kids. We got 5 refurbished HP small form factor desktop PCs, similar to this HP dc5100 desktop, but with a lower-end CPU and slower hard drive, for $99. I upgraded the RAM to 1GB, so they could play some newer games. It came with a fresh install of WinXP Home SP3. To buy a WinXP CD costs almost as much as the computer did ( ... )