LOOKIN FOR A NEW COMPUTER

[DFresh77]

I got a free computer the other day..

HP Pavillion 794c

Intel P4 3.06 HTGHz


533 MHz high performance system bus (FSB)


250GB HD

1 Gig Ram DDR

128mb Nvidia video card



I did a small job out in Danville and the dude was gonna throw it out cuz he said his windows had too many viruses..

so i brought it home...threw windows 7 on it and it's running like a champ..

 

[Fucky McFuckerson]

I got a free computer the other day..

HP Pavillion 794c

Intel P4 3.06 HTGHz


533 MHz high performance system bus (FSB)


250GB HD

1 Gig Ram DDR

128mb Nvidia video card



I did a small job out in Danville and the dude was gonna throw it out cuz he said his windows had too many viruses..

so i brought it home...threw windows 7 on it and it's running like a champ..

Even with the GB of RAM? Im surprised.

 

[DFresh77]

Shit...i was surprised when I got it running...

I'm not a big fan of HP PC's ..but this PC is pretty fast...there's no slacking on it and I like it...he was throwing away the monitor too, 17 inch flat screen monitor...

 

[ESFCE]

Even with the GB of RAM? Im surprised.

Windows 7 is designed to work with computers with lower specs like that. completely different than Vista.

 

[MKB]

Shit...i was surprised when I got it running...

I'm not a big fan of HP PC's ..but this PC is pretty fast...there's no slacking on it and I like it...he was throwing away the monitor too, 17 inch flat screen monitor...

I got my parents old dell for free it sounds about the same P4 3.0GHZ, 1gb ram no video card though just on board. The computer had a bunch of junk and viruses on it so I just re-formated the HD installed XP and hooked it up to my tv. The computer is hella fast now because I kept it simple and only installed what I needed. I use it to play emulators and watch movies. I tried to stream movies from my main computer but my router is way too slow.

 

[MKB]

If you haven't shopped at Newegg.com prior, I recommend you try them out. Even if something isn't working properly (DOA), their return service is among the best. I ONLY shop at Newegg for my PC parts. I have had ONE bum part EVER in my 4 years using them (DOA PSU)[*knocks on wood*], and i build computers fairly frequently for work.

Yeah I got a hard drive that was DOA (actually turned out to be a messed up SATA cable) I sent it back and they even paid the shipping and refunded the money, I ended up getting a 1TB drive instead of the 750GB that didn't work for almost the same price.

 

[FATAL NYGHTMARE]

Its onboard, but unless you plan on making a DVR box or playing vide games, you only need your video card to display whats on the screen...nothing more.

Nah what i meant was onboard graphics cards frequently take a shit. In my experiences, anyway.

 

[FATAL NYGHTMARE]

Even with the GB of RAM? Im surprised.

One of my laptops only has 1GB of RAM and it runs Windows 7 very smoothly.

 

[DFresh77]

I tried to stream movies from my main computer but my router is way too slow.

google TVersity and download the free version...

it should stream movies from your pc to your PS3/360 and it's not slow..

 

[MKB]

I ran that program to check it out but I don't have a wireless adapter for my Xbox. I might be geting a better router for free and either use it as an access point for my Xbox or replace the 2wire router/modem I have now and see if it streams faster to the computer. I am not too worried about it right now I just put the movies on my flash drive if I want to watch them.