E-Machines?

[Ritts]

I was asked by a friend to look into a computer that he is thinking of buying, but i don't know much about E-Machines. Here are the specs.

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.2 ghz, 1 gig ram, 160 gb hd. He is upgrading to the ATI x700 ex.

What do you guys think, what is the general read on e-machines in general.

Thanks

Ritts

 

[lhuser]

It's good, but E-machines....it makes it worse

 

[Ritts]

What, are they a young company, or where do they lack that other prevail?

 

[lhuser]

none of thes, but the way they build their comps...it's poor hardware based and sometimes, after one year, the whole computer just dies out.

If it's $600-650ish, don't even go there...it's poorly hardware designed machine

 

[Ritts]

Thank you. I will follow up with what he follows through with.

 

[lhuser]

It's his choice...but, it may work more than a year though. E-machines has the bad reputation of modding a mobo and making crap out of it...And they're ASRock based...the worse mobo ever

 

[MikeReiner]

me personally, I advise against buying brand computers at all (unless they are laptops)
A relative of mine bought an e-machines, and it died about 9 months later.
and as for ASrock being the worst, I wouldn't know.. A friend of mine built one with an ASrock motherboard, and it seems to work just fine... *shrugs*

 

[lhuser]

He's lucky...mine blew off in flaming bits