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Small Form Factor PACKARD BELL iMedia A2620

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by electroboy, 25 Jan 2010.

  1. electroboy

    electroboy What's a Dremel?

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    Looking around to pick up a cheap,but decent little PC for my girlfriend. I came across this Packard Bell. I owned a packard bell bout 15 years ago, so just wondering what sort of rep they have now for decent PCs?

    Also what do you think of the spec for the price on this PC?

    AMD Athlon II X3 425, clocked at 2.7 GHz
    3GB DDR2
    NVIDIA GeForce 9200
    320 GB SATA, 7200 rpm HDD

    €289

    She will just it mainly just for surfing the web, but will also use photoshop just for resizing photos and correcting colours etc, no huge files or anything.

    http://www.pixmania.ie/ie/uk/4029791...-a2620-uk.html

    Cheers!
     
  2. electroboy

    electroboy What's a Dremel?

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    Any help would be appreciated!
     
  3. jbloggs

    jbloggs What's a Dremel?

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    I'm sure it will do everything she wants to do, but I would be loathe to spend that money on something from PB due to quality of components etc, I would buy the hardware components (a cheap AMD setup) and build one...
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  4. electroboy

    electroboy What's a Dremel?

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    Do PB have a bad rep for components then? It uses a DTX board that would be a pain to find if I had to replace it.
     
  5. Otis1337

    Otis1337 aka - Ripp3r

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    i had a PB pc a few years gota, hardware wise it was ok, used a decent gigabyte mobo and so on, but the OS was rammed with useless trial crap

    i would say PB are ok for home/media entry level computers.
     
  6. jbloggs

    jbloggs What's a Dremel?

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    A friend of mine got a PB imedia given to him last year and I put a new PSU + graphics card into it for him, the PSU was of an extremely poor quality rated @ 250w, the case was really flimsy with poor cooling etc..it was a very poor attempt by PB to make a desktop...

    You could maybe build something like this:

    Asus M4A77D AMD 770 (Socket AM3/AM2+) - ?60

    AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 240 2.80GHz - ?47

    Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 - ?71

    XFX ATI Radeon HD 4650 512MB - ?46

    Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB - ?40

    Corsair CX 400W - ?39

    Coolermaster Elite 334 Midi Case - ?28

    Sony Optiarc AD-7240S - ?18

    ?349 + del

    + operating system of your choice

    Possibly go for a cheaper motherboard/graphics card..

    I'm sure others could spec you a budget system as well...
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