Quality computer from Sears?

[eqmassa]

I prefer building/custom-ordering computers, but my dad has really good Sears credit and wants to purchase from them. I browsed the website for a while and found these:

Northgate XP2000: http://www.sears.com/sr/product/sum...pid=00366014000

Compaq 2.5: http://www.sears.com/sr/product/sum...pid=00362063000

Compaq 2.4: http://www.sears.com/sr/product/sum...pid=00362053000

Northgate Amd1300:
http://www.sears.com/sr/product/det...to=null&bidsite

Auctions: 2 days: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...item=2744880686


Any suggestions at all would be appreciated. I'm pretty wary of Compaqs; the Presario 5461 I've had for about 4 years has been anything but stable and required a lot of maintenance. However, this is a new model/design so that may not be the case. This computer is going to be used by average users, primarily for song downloads, occassional gaming, schoolwork, etc.



Gaming PC in progress, suggestions welcome

 

[pIII_Man]

none of the adresses work...

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz...

 

[HardWareBoss]

Not the ole dead web site pages.

 

[HardWareBoss]

Thats what he gets for going to sears.

 

[markgun]

<A HREF="http://www.sears.com/sr/product/summary/productsummary.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0027976305.1059885290@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccfeadcimillhfgcehgcemgdffmdflf.0&vertical=ELEC&bidsite=&pid=00366014000" target="_new">
Northgate XP2000</A>

<A HREF="http://www.sears.com/sr/product/summary/productsummary.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0027976305.1059885290@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccfeadcimillhfgcehgcemgdffmdflf.0&vertical=ELEC&bidsite=&pid=00362063000" target="_new"> Compaq 2.5</A>

<A HREF="http://www.sears.com/sr/product/summary/productsummary.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0027976305.1059885290@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccfeadcimillhfgcehgcemgdffmdflf.0&vertical=ELEC&bidsite=&pid=00362053000" target="_new"> Compaq 2.4</A>

<A HREF="http://www.sears.com/sr/product/summary/productsummary.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0027976305.1059885290@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccfeadcimillhfgcehgcemgdffmdflf.0&vertical=ELEC&bidsite=&pid=00366013000" target="_new"> Northgate Amd1300</A>

Whew.

<b>Qui habet aures audiendi audiat</b>

 

[markgun]

<A HREF="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2744880686" target="_new"> Forgot this!</A>

<b>Qui habet aures audiendi audiat</b>

 

[pIII_Man]

the athlon systems will perform better than the celeron systems...

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz...

 

[Flinx]

The games you're planning on playing better not be too heavy.

The NorthGate XP2000, seemed to have an AGP video port, I'd somehow verify this as 100% true.

Many people's frustrations with their systems come when they try and put a graphics card in and realize that only PCI can be installed. There are usually limited choices as well as limited perfromance from the PCI cards.

The loving are the daring!<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Flinx on 08/03/03 06:54 AM.</EM></FONT></P>