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Good value, but don't be fooled by this

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3 May 10th, 2004 

13 Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful

Advantages:
Fairly good spec for price, good room for updating in the future

Disadvantages:
Deceptive price  - many peripherals not included .  Also apart from processor spec not amazing

Recommendable No:

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A friend from work recently purchased this PC, due to its low cost and fast speed, however after buying the PC was very disappointed. At first glance this seems like a great buy, however the fast processor is really the only high spec. component of the PC, and this may trick potential buyers into believing that it maintains that standard in all aspects.

Lack of monitor, poor graphics card, low amount of RAM, below par sound system and general absence of any other required peripherals such as mouse and keyboard mean that much more money would have to be spent to make this PC usable by a home or inexperienced buyer. Overall this means they would probably be better buying a complete PC for a few hundred more.

However the PC isn't all bad -to a user upgrading their previous PC this may be useful as you already own all the missing equipment and any of the lower specs could be upgraded with your own hardware, as a plus side to this PC is that there is plenty of room to upgrade it without having to buy a new motherboard in the future.

In conclusion my friend found that after he'd bought all of the components required to make this PC work, it turned out more expensive and still lower spec than some other PCs on the market, however as I stated before it could be a good buy in some circumstances. 

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Comments about this review »

heather_cromp 10.05.2004 20:08

Good first review! Welcome to Ciao! Heather xx

Don_Rustone 10.05.2004 19:27

chomply good review, shall not be buying this in the future- thanks



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