Editorial Product Review:Amazon.com Item Description:Whether intended for a business or leisure environment, the Compaq Presario 6370US Desktop is right at home. You'll need to purchase a separate monitor and speakers, and you may want to eventually upgrade the video card (particularly if you're a fan of complex 3-D applications), but the Presario 6370us is otherwise a capable rig at a palatable price point.
Compaq has selected a powerful 2.53 GHz Pentium 4 processor for the Presario 6370US, and complemented it with 512 MB of fast SDRAM memory and a 64 MB NVidia GeForce MX420 graphics card. This system 'engine' is more than enough for virtually any application currently on the market, although ardent gamers or 3D animators may want to add a faster graphics card at a later date.
Sporting a massive 120 GB hard disk, the unit offers plenty of on-board storage room for all your programs, files and downloaded MP3s. If you need even more space, you can backup and archive your files on the integrated 40x (Write) 10x (Rewrite) 40x (Read) optical drive, which also allows you to listen and burn audio CDs and enjoy the latest cinematic releases.
The Presario 6370US is packed with amenities to enhance your everyday computing, including six USB 2.0 ports for plug and play peripherals, two IEEE 1394 FireWire ports for interaction with external devices such as digital camcorders, and serial and parallel 'printer' ports. Communication options include a 10-Mbps/100-Mbps Ethernet connection, Wi-Fi Wireless Ethernet, and an integrated 56K low-speed modem.
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Awsome!!the best computer yet
THIS COMPUTER ROCKS!it starts up really fast(3sec) the system is soo quiet u cannot even hear it when its on.The modem seems alot faster then my old computers modem JUST BUY THIS ONE ITS GREAT !!
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Very good system
This is a great choice for anyone looking for a mid to high end PC. This system has a nice array of components and Compaq's reliability is pretty good. If you are a heavy 3D gamer you may have to upgrade the graphics within a year or so, but that's true of most of the systems sold today.
Let look at what's included:
CPU: P4 processor 2.53GHz - Excellent, plenty of CPU horse power no matter what you want to do.
RAM: 512MB DDR-SDRAM - The Amazon specs list this as plain old SDRAM but is really 266MHz DDR-SDRAM. There is faster ram out there if you are a power user who wants to push the edge. However DDR-266 is a perfect fit of speed and reliability for most users.
Hard Drive: 120GB - More than enough storage for just about anyone.
Other drives: CD-RW (40x write/10x rewrite/40x read), and 16x max speed DVD-ROM. Perfect. Don't expect a 40x write speed when creating audio CDROMs. For reasons too involved to go into here, it doesn't work out that way.
Graphics: 64MB DDR GeForce4 MX420 w/ TV out - Good card but not cutting edge. If you are a cutting edge gamer you will want to upgrade this within the year. The good news is that a good upgrade doesn't have to cost you more than 100 bucks.
Ports 10/100 Base-T Fast Ethernet; 56K ITU v.90 flex modem, lots of USB 2.0 - Compaq did a good job of loading this up with all the ports you could want.
Software: Windows XP (great!), MS Works (okay), and all the usual stuff like anti virus and photo editing software.
Overall this is a good package loaded with just about everything you need. It doesn't have speakers (most bundled speakers aren't worth your time anyway). If you are looking for a LCD monitor to go with this system it is important you get one that supports an analog input. This system does not have a digital DVI output. My advice: buy a LCD monitor that supports both analog and digital inputs and upgrade your computer in a year or so with a video card that has a digital DVI output. The digital output quality is superior to the analog output quality; especially on Nvidia based graphics cards.
