Is an eMachines T6544 worth keeping?

Question

I received an eMachines T6544 PC for Christmas, and I'm wondering if I should keep it or exchange it for something better. It's replacing a Dell (ack!) Dimension desktop with Windows XP Home Edition only 254MB of RAM, a bad integrated 64MB Intel video card, 37GB of hard drive space, and a 2.4GHz Celeron processor. The eMachines is superior in every way except for the processor speed. The eMachines has a whopping 250GB of hard drive space, an NVIDIA GeForce 6100, DVD+RW drive, a gigabyte of RAM, and runs on the Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system (which I want). The only thing I'm worried about is that the eMachines has AMD Athlon 64 processor that runs only 2.2GHz. I have another Dell that's newer and is superior to the one mentioned earlier, and it is inferior to the eMachines except for its Pentium 4 2.8GHz processor. I'm primarily using games like The Movies, BF2142, and I'm just worried that the eM's processor is going to have a significant effect on their performance.

Answer 1

Woah, you've been tricked by the famous "Megahertz Myth." An AMD Athalon 64 is significantly, I believe more than doubally, more powerful than a Celleron processor.

First off, comparing Intel Gigaherz to AMD Gigaherz is like comparing apples to elephants. They numbers simply can not be used to compare the processor's performance at first glance. The way to see if one processor is faster than another is to look at "benchmarks." Processor "benchmarks" are real-world tests to see how different processes compare in different applications.

I myself had a similar confusion, and a similar upgrade. I went from a 2.6 GHZ celleron to a 2.2GHZ Athalon 64. The 64 with a gigabyte of ram encoded my iPod videos at about double the speed of my old celleron.

Another fact to consider is that the AMD is 64 Bits. In simple terms, this means that it is faster and preforms better.

Thanks for asking this before trading, I would hate for you to waste a very capable computer.

Remember to user Firefox for browsing on your new computer to keep it from getting slow. The reason that computer get slow over time is because people use IE for their browsing, which exposes the computer to spyware and other malicious software that slows down computers. I reinstalled Windows and have only used Firefox for web browsing, and the computer is almost as fast as the day that I bought. I was able to put it to good use in my father's office, while I get to enjoy my Athalon 64.

Also, the fact that it is eMachines makes no difference whatsoever. Brand in computer nowadays matters very little, as most of the computer manufactures use the parts from the same factories in China anyways. Just because someone has bad luck with a computer does not make that computer a "bad brand." Computers just break, its a fact of life.

Please email me with any questions!

Answer 2

Be careful when going by clock speed. There are other technologies (hyperthreadding, L2 cache and Code pipelining are some) that can speed processing. An AMD 64 processor usually faster than an Intel 32 bit processor. AMD gives you a compariable speed with the cpu's title, a 3800+ will run equvialently to an 3.8Ghz procesor. Biggest bang for your buck is always RAM memory at this point in history.

Answer 3

ok never keep a eMachines! they always suck, exchange it. there cheap in $$ and are poorly built, and always slow. parts, and there designed for people in collage who need a school computer and dont know any butter, prople at wal mart and circut city trick people int buting them, i over herd a conversation about somone asking circet city to set up a wireless network and they were going to charge them an extra 45 bukt to sucure it!
ya the specs on it suck, mine was free and it has 512 mb ram, 38+ gig hdd, 2 ghz, and came with 64 mb sis intagrated video and got a 100 mb graphix card from my friend.

Answer 4

There should be no performance drop between your two machines. If anything the faster bus and better video card and increased ram should actually improve it. That is actually a very nice system.....

Answer 5

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