[GRLUG] Hardware question

[Casey DuBois]

Topher,
That HP Looks nice and the price is right!
The pci-e makes adding graphics a great option (I may even have a
spare card lying around).
I'm running several HP's and am pretty happy with them.
Casey

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 11:10 -0500, Topher wrote:
>> I really suck at hardware.  I don't follow what's new, I have no idea what
>> makes one processor better than another blah blah blah.
>> That said, does this look any good?
>> http://www.staples.com/HP-Pavilion-p6710f-Desktop-PC/product_918389
>
> For the price point the machine looks pretty nice.
>
> On caveats are that the Athlon II isn't a terribly impressive CPU
> <http://www.cpubenchmark.net/common_cpus.html> and the ATI series of
> GPUs can be a irritating with regards to compatibility;  Nvidia is
> always a safe bet.
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