Good deal?

[Texicon]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4492004&CatId=332

[ThaMan]

Wow, look at that wimpy power supply. Only 650 watts. What the hell are they thinking, and with 4 hard drives.

/sarcasm off

I think it looks pretty good. The hard drives are worth $400, so the rest is well worth $300. Hitachi Hard drives are IBM Hard Drives. I've NEVER had an IBM drive fail before 5 years of use, and they were raid, running 24/7.

[Freejack]

You didn't mention what you wanted it for. In general terms, I'd say the motherboard, video card, CPU, and RAM are all weak. I don't understand the need for 4TB of hard drive storage. IBM hard drives are historically bad, (remember the old DeathStar *cough* DeskStar drives?) but are probably better now.

I don't know, it looks to me like they're trying to shovel out old inventory they've had trouble moving... possibly a benefit to you, but again, it depends on what you need it for.

[ThaMan]

I didn't even notice it had video. Guess it didn't come into the equation for me. I still think it's a good deal. You could always add a video card if you want a gaming system. Onboard video is NEVER any good for games.

[Texicon]

It would be a decent upgrade CPU and HD space wise. I was in the market for a new tower and do some swapping to have 2 desktop pc's.

[ThaMan]

I don't understand the need for 4TB of hard drive storage.I would NEVER use a 1T drive or above without Mirroring it. I can't imagine loosing that much data without some kind of backup, and it's not like you could back it up to tape. All my drives in my systems are mirrored, except for my laptop.

[Urthh]

Look at the specs for the MB only supports max 4gb ram also only has from what I saw 1 slot for a vid card. May not seem important but limited expansion is murder later on.

[Amond]

didn't see any optical drive or floppy. Maybe hard to load drivers or OS without them.