emachine pc is good or bad?

[jammw69]

i heard emachines are good for there price. i have heard of people buying emachines and upgrading motherboards and other hardwear. i prefer to build my own pc. so let me know what your opinion iare on emachines or other brands.:burn:

[Arkaine23]

Emachines are a pretty good value, but you don't get much as far as high performance stuff, space inside the case, PSU, or cooling. Its usually better to buy parts and assemble a PC yourself, just choose bang-for-buck value hardware and you shouldn't out price an Emachine by too much, although you will probably out-class it by a good measure.

I'm about to convert my dad's old emachine into a webserver... should be interesting. I'll probably post a few distress calls in Alt OS as I struggle to setup a SUSE/FreeBSD dual-boot. This thing is pretty dinky on hardware IMO, so I'm going to have to do some work.

[larva]

Emachines, while possibly acceptable for some users, are the absolute cheapest collections of hardware available. While virtually anything that will lift windows off the hard disk will suffice for basic tasks, there is no room for terms like performance and upgradeablility in the same sentence with emachines.

[woods]

emachines are garbage!!! I know this because I used to work at (I know you guys are going to make fun of me ) Best Buy and even the guys selling them would take bets on how long it would be before it came back for repairs. Like said above Quote from larva *are the absolute cheapest collections of hardware available.* I tried to upgrade one of my friend's emachines with a mobo/cpu combo and it would not even fit unless I moded the drive bays! build it yourself and have fun.

[ed8150]

i havnt had any personal experiance with them but ive heard many horror stories about them, esp psus flaring up:
http://www.emachinessuck.com/
your best bet will always be the computer you build for yourself for the very simple fact that you are in it for yourself, while emachines, dell ect are in it to make a buck, with quality componets, for probably about the same price as an emachine. myself and the rest of the guys on this forum would be more than happy to help you learn how to buildd ( and perhaps overclock) a quality computer.

[woods]

i love that site.LOL.

[The Overclocker]

with making your own computer - you know what you are getting in it and you know what you will be able to do with it in the future - this alone makes it better then a emachine

[Kinerry]

emachines are a bad area to go into, just build your own

[Kinerry]

strike that, you can get a nice athlon emachine system and just upgrade the mobo and be set

[twinkie]

EMACHINES ARE NOTHING MORE THAN THE PACARD BELLS OF THE LATE 1990'S:)

[grunjee]

Originally posted by twinkie
EMACHINES ARE NOTHING MORE THAN THE PACARD BELLS OF THE LATE 1990'S:)

More like the PB's of the *early* 90's -- they were even worse.