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This has been great so far. I am not a computer buff, but this has worked well for me so far and have loaded most of my prgrammes in without problem. Price was good and shipping was reasonable.
My son-in-law suggested and even ordered this HP for me. He explained his confidence in Amazon and HP and I bought. I now am TOTALLY happy and confident in choosing Amazon for purchases and HP for their products.
Vista works like a charm, as I have said there have been no problems with it. The case is just over one foot deep and 1.5 foot high. It plays Assassin's Creed, COD4, The Orange Box, Counter Strike: Source, World In Conflict, Company of Heroes and countless other games on the full Audio and Graphical settings with little or no lag. After installing an nVIDIA 8600GT Overclocked Edition I can power through Crysis with full medium level graphics with select ones on high (physics was set to Very High).
Drives such as that are meant to be opened and then closed. The system is setup for surround sound though and getting a simple 2 or 3 piece system to work is difficult. It hasn't failed me yet, no crashes, no freezes, nada. I have a Logitech G15 V2, Logitech G9, Ideazon FANG and a Logitech headset wired to the rig and the drivers have installed fine on Vista while the ports from the PC have powered my devices (the headset among all of the others are USB items). It's only about 5 inches across.
On the case of the thinness of the drive, it should not break off and if it does you should not own a computer. After installing the card I have found that it lines up with many 1 grand medium level gaming rigs at only a cost of around 700 bucks. The build quality is outstanding and the case is very stylish when matched with black accessories. The computer is not a cheap crappy thing as I expected either for the price and the specs.
I have owned this PC for about a year now and I am very proud with it's performance. The inside of the case is kind of messy but if you snip of a zip tie the wires easily part for your new installation. The CD tray is not very thick and requires you manually push the tray in to make it withdraw which slightly bothers me. The card readers work very well and quickly and the CD drive spins quickly. although the answer was e-mailed to me through YAHOO. It's all very new and works with everything (except an old Saitek joystick from somewhere around '97). This makes a statement about both the card and the PC.
I highly, highly recommend this product for everyone buying a new computer. The HP tech support is beyond helpful, I talked to a tech on the internet about a problem with a Ubisoft (I asked about the game's problem, not the computer) and the tech still helped me find a few sites to check out (kudos Geroge S. nearly a month later). It is best to simply by a stereo headset or a set of surround sound speakers. It is fast, big (in storage, not size), stylish, functional, practical, and best of all very inexpensive.
HP Pavilion A6330F Desktop PC (AMD Athlon 64 X 2 Dual Core 5600+ Processor, 3 GB RAM, 500 GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium) This computer is great and works very much to my satisfaction.
This computer (and a Toshiba monitor) replaced my Gateway system. So far it does everything I need and it does them well. I was worried about Vista but the 2gb of memeory seems to be handling it. Great DVD setup, and the price is right.
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