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Help deciding on new pc

bloo · 2009-09-28 08:29:06

Hi, Im looking to buy a new cheap pc mainly for photo editing and design a few games and the usual internet browsing. Ill be upgrading from a 1.6ghz athlon (something or other processor) with 1 gig or ram so id imagine any dual core pc will be a vast improvement. Ive had my eye on these two:…

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28-09-2009 9:29am

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bloo

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Hi,

Im looking to buy a new cheap pc mainly for photo editing and design a few games and the usual internet browsing. Ill be upgrading from a 1.6ghz athlon (something or other processor) with 1 gig or ram so id imagine any dual core pc will be a vast improvement.

Ive had my eye on these two:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173624
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/174022
Obviously ill be getting a new graphics card too but to me these look ok for the money, i just cant decide which is best.

Does any one have any ideas?
Thanks

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#2 29-09-2009 6:31pm
Solitaire

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A few games? Those machines might even struggle with photo editing Good basics for budget machines but (no surpise) they have no graphics, and the fact that the integrated GPU is an ancient GMA3100 instantly suggests some old motherbaords in those You'd need to get a graphics card for any gaming.

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