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CeleryMan
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:40 am Post subject: Used Desktop: How Can One Verify Processer/CPU Juice? |
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Folks,
Forgive my ignorance but how can one verify the CPU/processing power of a CPU? Here's the spec seller provided:
CPU: AMD BORTON 2500+, RAM: PC 2700 DDR 512 RAM, UGA: GEFORCE FX 5600, HDD: 120 GIGS. SOFTWARE: WINDOW'S XP and MS OFFICE
Would you dish out 200,000 KRW for this? Is this a fairly robust system?
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:32 am Post subject: Re: Used Desktop: How Can One Verify Processer/CPU Juice? |
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| CeleryMan wrote: |
Folks,
Forgive my ignorance but how can one verify the CPU/processing power of a CPU? Here's the spec seller provided:
CPU: AMD BORTON 2500+, RAM: PC 2700 DDR 512 RAM, UGA: GEFORCE FX 5600, HDD: 120 GIGS. SOFTWARE: WINDOW'S XP and MS OFFICE
Would you dish out 200,000 KRW for this? Is this a fairly robust system?
Thanks |
Athlon XP-M 2500+ 1867 MHz 512 KiB L2cache FSB266 MT/s
Think Pentium 4 "Northwood" 1.7GHz as a comparason. The chip dates back to 2003 / and is 5 years old. The video is outdated and won't play any of the new generation games and would probably have problems playing HD movies.
If you just want it for websurfing and word processing, it is fine.
You can verify the processor and RAM:
Start
control panel
performance and maintainence
system
It will show"
the O/S
CPU / cpu speed
memory.
click on the tab for "hardware"
then the button for "device manager"
and then you can check the video adapter and HDD specs. |
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chevro1et
Joined: 01 Feb 2007
Location: Busan, ROK
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:33 am Post subject: |
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Its about 4 years old... what are you looking to do with it? Be okay for internet/ word processing, watching d/l tv/ movies. Might come up a little short for some online streaming multimedia content (pandora tv/ gomtv/ ppv events). Be okay for really light gaming.
EDIT: beat to the punch by ttompatz |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 1:51 pm Post subject: Re: Used Desktop: How Can One Verify Processer/CPU Juice? |
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| CeleryMan wrote: |
| Would you dish out 200,000 KRW for this? Is this a fairly robust system? |
75,000 maximum from me. It's barely worth that in my opinion. |
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CeleryMan
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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If I understand you guys correctly this desktop should be "better than average" if my goal is to downloand MP3 files, access MS applications, etc.
When you refer to "streaming multimedia" does this apply to Youtube? Will it be difficult to watch youtube content?
Anyways, thanks greatly for everyone's feedback!
PS. Torn between this used Desktop vs. an IBM R40. I wonder which is the better buy based on my 2 primary usage objectives |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| CeleryMan wrote: |
If I understand you guys correctly this desktop should be "better than average" if my goal is to downloand MP3 files, access MS applications, etc.
When you refer to "streaming multimedia" does this apply to Youtube? Will it be difficult to watch youtube content?
Anyways, thanks greatly for everyone's feedback!
PS. Torn between this used Desktop vs. an IBM R40. I wonder which is the better buy based on my 2 primary usage objectives |
It would be fine for youtube, downloading/playing mp3s and office 2003 applications. It would begin to choke on the office2007 apps.
Also you may find the HDD is a bit smallish but easy to upgrade or put a 2nd one in if you run out of room downloading music and multi-media files.
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CeleryMan
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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So, how much would you personally pay for this used desktop.
Thanks again ... |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| No monitor? 50,000 |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| spliff wrote: |
| No monitor? 50,000 |
40 max! |
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