AMD Athlon 64 Bit 3400+ Review
After four years of owning my PII 800 Mhz Computer, with 512mb of ram and two 60 gb hard drives I decided to go out last week and purchase a new one. A few weeks ago my old computer had virus behavior where if you clicked upon clean up files it deleted everything. All documents, all mp3's, everything on my D: was gone. It would have done the same to the C: I was sure. I had a virus in the system about 8 months ago and I followed the directions to remove it, but I think the virus changed this program to make it do that, so I knew ok time to reinstalled XP, a clean installation later and the computer was running fine. Then a week later the C: went two months out of warrantee. So 100 bucks later say hello to my new 200 G.B. hard drive. Now that would have fixed all the problems and it did flawlessly but I was feeling. I just did all this work on it, why don't I see what's out there.
So this week they had a sale on a different model the 3200 XP+ and I was like that's a great price and looks like a good system, and no doubt it is. I was informed of the price difference between that model and the higher model of the 64 bit AMD 3400XP+ and that was the one I decided upon. For 300 bucks more you get a HP Media Center PC with a DVD Burner and a Geforce FX5200XT. I found out later the Geforce isn't the best one out there, but when I tried out the computer on my games it really flew through them. So I'm super happy that I got this.
The quality of the recordings are suburb and the system runs quietly. Its really amazing and very stable. The Media Center is XP 2005, which has service patch 2 built into it. The recordings are great, and I really like the features of it. I am so happy that I decided to upgrade the system, it’s definitely worth the extra few hundred bucks, because you go from a generation back to the latest.
It handles Windows like it was built for it, and it’s 64 bit so in the future when Windows releases a 64 bit version for the consumer it will be able to handle it without a problem. It’s a real easy decision comparing this to a Pentium 4 and knowing which system is the better decision for now and the future.
Oh yes the Media Center also has S-Video, Cable Out, Firewire and USB 2.0 built into it. It has a remote control for remote control of the media. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a new PC.