130 dollar pc?

omega pwned · 10-08-08, 08:48 PM

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...Specifications

i know most of the people here would rather buy a new gfx card but for this cheap somebody might find it fun to play around with :P

start calling up your local walmarts lol

smokie mcpott · 10-08-08, 08:54 PM

that would make one sweet firewall box

nd4spdbh2 · 10-08-08, 09:14 PM

dang! thats a pretty damn good price if you ask me for a full pc... pop a copy of windows xp on the thing and you got yourself a perfectly good web normal use box.

kellygtp · 10-08-08, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by smokie mcpott

that would make one sweet firewall box

no doubt

ghost_recon88 · 10-08-08, 09:49 PM

for a Via CPU!

MadMan007 · 10-08-08, 10:01 PM

That's a good deal really if you're looking for a small low-powered PC, I'd get it and strip out the guts and put them in a tiny case if it's mITX.

WarriorII · 10-08-08, 10:07 PM

VIA C7....... well, ok.

Make a good box for granny maybe.

Email & web surfer.
Don't know if it's powerful enough to run a M$ OS or not.

but for $130......

Ben333 · 10-08-08, 10:16 PM

Yeah, XP runs just fine on a C3 that I have. This is a good little box for basic use but for around $300 you can always slap together a Core Duo rig on newegg with 2 gigs of ram, a shuttle barebone case and a 640 GB HDD...

Nice find anyway.

nd4spdbh2 · 10-08-08, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by WarriorII

VIA C7....... well, ok.

Make a good box for granny maybe.

Email & web surfer.
Don't know if it's powerful enough to run a M$ OS or not.

but for $130......

definitely powerfull nuf for xp... i run xp on my p3 850mhz mobile cpu when on battery at 350mhz... xp still runs pretty snappy.

krhspeedy · 10-09-08, 12:07 AM

That would a good pc for little five year olds who want to play Disney channel games.
Or web surfing. Id buy it for my g/f but i would diffidently put xp on it.

smokie mcpott · 10-09-08, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by krhspeedy

That would a good pc for little five year olds who want to play Disney channel games.
Or web surfing. Id buy it for my g/f but i would diffidently put xp on it.

LOL, not my 5 yr old
hes running an e7200 on an ECS board
2 gb ram
120gb xp drive
40gb ubuntu drive
OCZ powerstream 520w
Coolermaster Stacker
8800gts 640mb
audigy 2zs
and a dvd burner

and he helped build every bit of it. he loves learning linux and he can tell you what every part is in the computer and what it does

he HAD a cheap-o rig....but he got tired of it being too slow for him...

nd4spdbh2 · 10-09-08, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by smokie mcpott

LOL, not my 5 yr old
hes running an e7200 on an ECS board
2 gb ram
120gb xp drive
40gb ubuntu drive
OCZ powerstream 520w
Coolermaster Stacker
8800gts 640mb
audigy 2zs
and a dvd burner

and he helped build every bit of it. he loves learning linux and he can tell you what every part is in the computer and what it does

he HAD a cheap-o rig....but he got tired of it being too slow for him...

WTF damn kid has a sweet lil rig there! LEARNING LINUX AT 5 JEZUS!

Mortis03 · 10-09-08, 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by smokie mcpott

LOL, not my 5 yr old
hes running an e7200 on an ECS board
2 gb ram
120gb xp drive
40gb ubuntu drive
OCZ powerstream 520w
Coolermaster Stacker
8800gts 640mb
audigy 2zs
and a dvd burner

and he helped build every bit of it. he loves learning linux and he can tell you what every part is in the computer and what it does

he HAD a cheap-o rig....but he got tired of it being too slow for him...

Thats how I hope my 5 year old will be... hehe, someday maybe... when I have kids.

But seriously, not too bad of a deal at all, imho.

ShadowPho · 10-09-08, 02:40 AM

Walmart site down lol...

Mpegger · 10-09-08, 06:39 AM

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Originally Posted by ShadowPho

Walmart site down lol...

The underpaid sweat shop worker in the giant hamster wheel powering the generator must have passed out.

ghost_recon88 · 10-09-08, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Mpegger

The underpaid sweat shop worker in the giant hamster wheel powering the generator must have passed out.

Sig worthy

MadMan007 · 10-09-08, 09:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WarriorII

VIA C7....... well, ok.

Make a good box for granny maybe.

Email & web surfer.
Don't know if it's powerful enough to run a M$ OS or not.

but for $130......

Another good use would be as an audio server front end which was my first thought. Naturally it wouldn't be great for video, maybe SD DVD would be ok, but if it's mini ITX it's really quite cheap considering you get everything needed aside from a display. The total cost is about the same as what a mini ITX mobo+CPU alone go for.

doublejack · 10-09-08, 10:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smokie mcpott

LOL, not my 5 yr old
hes running an e7200 on an ECS board
2 gb ram
120gb xp drive
40gb ubuntu drive
OCZ powerstream 520w
Coolermaster Stacker
8800gts 640mb
audigy 2zs
and a dvd burner

and he helped build every bit of it. he loves learning linux and he can tell you what every part is in the computer and what it does

he HAD a cheap-o rig....but he got tired of it being too slow for him...

Haha, great minds think alike! My six year old daughter has a similar setup, which she helped me build for her birthday in June.

A Celeron 430 on ECS mobo, BSEL modded to 2.4GHz
2gb ram
80gb xp drive
40gb Edubuntu drive
Corsair VX450w PSU
DVD-rom / CD-RW drive
15" LCD

The total cost to build her computer was $220, including the LCD which was used. The best part is I painted the case in Disney colors. The primary paint is called Pretty in Pink, and I used a purple shade called One Enchanted Evening as an accent color. As a final touch, we put several Disney instant stencils of her favorite princess characters on the case - Belle, Cinderella & Aurora. It came out quite nicely.

MRD · 10-09-08, 10:27 AM

That could run Win 2K for sure, or even XP (not as well). Vista... Lol...

They made some mistakes. First, they are offering GOS (Google OS for those that don't know) which is a Linux distro. However, they bundled it with Via Unichrome graphics, which have virtually no support in Linux still, meaning that you will have to likely run in Vesa mode, which is horribly slow, or add a graphics card (not sure it even supports that).

Web surfing today is one of the most computationally demanding things people do. It's all the flash in every web page. I'm finding Athlon XP's too slow to web surf on now (ok, they aren't really SLOW but they aren't fast anymore either... the flash puts some strain on them).

That PC would be great as a Linux box running w/o a GUI, e.g. file server, router, etc. It's even overpowered for a router, and the low energy use is great.

ziggo0 · 10-09-08, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Mpegger

The underpaid sweat shop worker in the giant hamster wheel powering the generator must have passed out.

That's inaccurate.

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MRD Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: CT	That could run Win 2K for sure, or even XP (not as well). Vista... Lol... They made some mistakes. First, they are offering GOS (Google OS for those that don't know) which is a Linux distro. However, they bundled it with Via Unichrome graphics, which have virtually no support in Linux still, meaning that you will have to likely run in Vesa mode, which is horribly slow, or add a graphics card (not sure it even supports that). Web surfing today is one of the most computationally demanding things people do. It's all the flash in every web page. I'm finding Athlon XP's too slow to web surf on now (ok, they aren't really SLOW but they aren't fast anymore either... the flash puts some strain on them). That PC would be great as a Linux box running w/o a GUI, e.g. file server, router, etc. It's even overpowered for a router, and the low energy use is great.
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