Weaknesses and Strengths of my PC?

Question

I have a HP Dc500 but I customized it with a ATX gaming case with blue LEDS 320GB hard drive Light scribe DVD burner 450 Watt power supply 2.5 GB of RAM and a 3.20 Ghz Dual core processor yes its over clocked with a liquid cooled heat sink and sound blaster sound card I have integrated graphics with a 22 inch wide screen monitor running at 1680 by 1050 pixels so can someone tell me the good and bad things about this and what it would be best for and worst at?

Answer 1

Weakness: Spending too much on a non gaming rig (integrated video card). Seriously, you do not need liquid cooling for this nor you need to OC your CPU.

Answer 2

integrated graphics suck. get a graphics card. other that that it sounds pretty good. liquid cooling is BA.

Answer 3

450 watt. low but if you don't care about video card then who cares.

2.5 is an odd amount of ram... 2 may be more stable.

3.2 dual core is ok, core 2 duo is faster by a long shot though. and quad core knocks that out of the park

1680 x 1050 is pretty high resolution for someone without a video card

get even a cheap video card, you won't believe the difference, it's like dropping a corvette engine into a civic. i'm not kidding either. it won't only make games great your computer will function a hundred times faster.

check out newegg.com

i've found cards for 40 dollars (the 8600 gt) after mail in rebate and thats a great deal for the amount of power it puts out. and no worries about a new power supply unless you get the bigger video cards. example the 8800 gts or ultra or 9800 series.

but seriously

www.newegg.com look for the 8600 gt you can find it for 40 bucks after rebate.

Answer 4

2.5 gb ram?

Unless you're using two 128mb RAM sticks in there (unlikely), your RAM is probably not running in full DDR mode. It has less read/write bandwidth than it could have.

450W power supply needs at least a solid 20-25+ amps on the 12V rails combined if you plan on using a dedicated graphics card. If you have something like the corsair VX450, you're fine. You do not need to check this if you aren't getting a dedicated graphics card.

would be nice to know the model of your processor. From best to worst: Core 2 Duo, AMD X2, Pentium D.

INTEGRATED GRAPHICS ARE BAD. Get a dedicated card, unless you don't play 3d games. In that case you don't need a graphics card, but that's a weakness.

I assume you know how to properly cool your computer and that the liquid is not leaking.

Answer 5

why worry about any weakness/strength if you're not going to be pushing your computer?

how about explaining what you might want to use the system for.