Good or bad deal??

A

araujo3rd

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i currently have a toshiba laptop, and i posted an ad to swap for a desktop pc since i would prefer one as my laptop is not so east to play games etc. i got offered a pc with these specs:

Asus P5PE-VM motherboard

Intel P4 3.2 Mhz processor

1 Gig Ram

400 Gig Hard disk (Hitachi Deskstar 7K400) running at 7200 RPM

Graphics: Tul Radeon 9600 Pro, 256MB

LG 19" Studioworks 900B monitor

Genius keyboard plus optical mouse

Sound, LAN, 6 x USB 2 ports onboard.


And here are the specs for my laptop:

OSHIBA® Satellite Series L300-11Q Notebook - Intel® Celeron M 550 2.0GHz 1MB L2 Cache 533MHz FSB, 1024MB DDR2-667 SO-Dimm Memory (1x1024), DVD Super Multi Double layer optical drive , 120GB SATA 5400rpm Hard Drive, 15.4" WXGA Trubrite (1280x800 resolution) TFT Display, 10/100 Mbit Ethernet LAN, 802.11b/g wireless LAN, 56K Modem, Intel GMA X3100 up to 358MB shared graphics, 2.49 kg, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition


is this a good or bad swap? thanks in advanced
 
Proccessor = better
Screen = better
HDD = better

RAM - its DDR, DDR is getting increasingly hard to get cheaply, but you could still upgrade the RAM. It is also an indicator of the age of the system in general.

Desktop OS?

Do you need wireless?

Motherboard = review/specs - upgrade to Core 2 Duo in the future..? Those CPU's are only going to get cheaper on eBay..?

As for the graphics card - I don't know jack about that side of things so I can't help, and that is going to be one of the biggest contributors to its gaming capability.

My opinion....

Like atentora I would not swap that Laptop for that computer. Laptops are always going to be more expensive for lower specs because they are laptops. I can't put a value on that computer system as I'm in the UK, but if you do the swap you will not be getting value for money. Personally I think you could build a system like that out of second hand parts for $150 perhaps (that is only a rough conversion from a second hand system I built to similar specs in £). Keep your laptop.

Hope that helps.
 
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