Author Topic: emachines (Read 409 times)

2Slow · « **on:** June 08, 2004, 09:22:06 PM »

Item # 479472
Office Depot has this machine on sale for $387. If I add my ASUS Geforce FX5200 to it, will it play well with AHII?

Manufacturer #
manufacturer eMachines
model name T2742
processor type Intel Celeron
processor speed 2.7 GHz
system bus 400 MHz
secondary cache size 128KB
memory 256MB
maximum memory upgrade 1.0GB
memory type DDR SDRAM
hard drive capacity 40GB
video card memory 64MB shared
video card model name integrated Intel Extreme Graphics 3D
audio card model name AC '97 audio
internal modem type 56K ITU V.92
included integrated drives DVD-ROM; CD-RW
ports 1 Ethernet (RJ-45); 1 parallel; 2 PS/2; 1 serial; 6 USB 2.0; 1 video (VGA)
peripherals included keyboard; mouse; speakers
operating system Windows XP Home Edition
software included MS Money 2003; MS Works 6.0; Norton Anti Virus
warranty 1-year limited

2Slow

Grimm · « **Reply #1 on:** June 08, 2004, 09:49:50 PM »

Iv had a few Emachinces and liked them well, but they have been used as secondary machines for me. Iv been impressed with the reliablity of the ones Iv had.

The problem will be weather or not it has an AGP Slot for your video card. my guess is it does not. There for it probably wont work out like your thinking.

The best thing a guy can do, is learn to build his own box. Then you can build something that can easily be upgradable.

2Slow · « **Reply #2 on:** June 08, 2004, 09:55:46 PM »

Assuming it has AGP, does this one have enough horses to pull the AHII wagon?

Of course, I would check it for the AGP before buying it.

ALF · « **Reply #3 on:** June 08, 2004, 10:10:31 PM »

I prefer the Athlon emachines over the celrons myself, but they are both great bargains. Add an aditional 256 or 512 memory and a good AGP card (I use an old Geforce 4200ti) and you have an amazingly cheap machin that runs gr8.

I took my emachine to the con last year, cause Im not moving my main game rig

acetnt367th · « **Reply #4 on:** June 09, 2004, 06:00:48 PM »

emachines is ok for the cost ---dont buy the celeron..........buy the athlon xp - you will not regret this
only problem with emachine is that it comes with a restore cd and not an original copy of win xp. This may be a pain if you want to reinstall just the operating system..

Acetnt

Furious · « **Reply #5 on:** June 09, 2004, 06:22:26 PM »

AH is cpu intensive. Get a decent one.

What power supply?

2Slow · « **Reply #6 on:** June 09, 2004, 07:48:26 PM »

Arrrgggg!!! Damn thing does not have an AGP slot, nor the next model up. The emachine with the Athlon 3000 does, but it cost $569. Perhaps I will build the Screen Savers $500 gaming PC.

tactic · « **Reply #7 on:** June 12, 2004, 02:37:44 AM »

do it yourself, and for $500.00 to $600.00 you can put together one bad arse computer....... better the any- ANY e-mach, dell, gw, or for that matter, better then any store bought computer, no matter the cost.. dont let them convince you that getting a monitor, keyboard , and mouse and a few programs that you'll never use with it, is a bargain. ... its not for sure in the long run. and its not that hard to do yourself (incase you dont know), good deals on pc parts all over.. worth looking into for sure.
here mine.. at the cost of $575.00. +-. best part is.. i built this pc 5 months ago, so this same computer is now cheaper to build probley. 50.00 75.00 +- cheaper to build.... or better/faster computer for same money..

p4 2.6 800 fsb
intl perl motherboard 800fsb 8x agp
ram pc 3200 ddr 256mb (can run duel channel too)
nvidia gf 5200 128 mb (90 fps+- in ah)
120 gig wd hd
1st time ever used on board sound (works great)
creative modem
cdrw
nice tower
a-drive
400 watt ps

Tactic

2Slow · « **Reply #8 on:** June 12, 2004, 10:47:59 PM »

Will have to build my own, have done so in the past. Will go with XP OS. I like the Pentiums, never has anything fail to work on one. I know others think the Athlon is the way to go. I have always shied away from them. In the early days one had too many issues with Mobo chip sets and such. I know it is much better now, but I will still go the Intel route.

I think I shall wait until Nov - Dec time frame. New Mobo's with the PCI extended should be fairly stable by then. Don't want to paint myself into a corner with AGP Mobo and card.

buzkill · « **Reply #9 on:** June 15, 2004, 08:29:13 AM »

look in newegg.com.....its where i got all my parts like raidmax gaming tower/w power supply for $54, asus mobo for $70, amd 2400xp+............$675 total and the most expensive parts were 2 512m 2700 ram(bought locally....incase it was d.o.a)

2Slow · « **Reply #10 on:** June 15, 2004, 10:55:12 PM »

Thanks. I will give it a look.