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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but definately not the best
To the user reviewing this before me. This computer is by far not the best. It's GeForce FX5600 is definately a disappointment, a Radeon 9800 Xt/Pro or a GeForce FX5950 Ultra would make it alot better. 200 GB drive is nice, but I would replace it with 2 10,000 RPM WD Raptors in a Raid Array. 512 MB of SD RAM? What were they thinking? Clearly Double Data Rate memory is...
Published on January 5, 2004

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1.0 out of 5 stars Why do I do this to myself!
Found what I thought to be a good deal online for a home PC... till I had to deal with HP tech support. I won't get into all the details... But I do buy several PCs a year for my business & dumped both Compaq & HP, due to their poor support, in favor of Dell years ago (evidently when two companies w/poor support merge the service gets even worse!). Let me just...
Published on March 31, 2004 by ondamtn


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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but definately not the best, January 5, 2004
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This review is from: HP Pavilion Media Center m390-b Photosmart PC (3.20-GHz Pentium 4 (Hyper-Threading), 512 MB RAM, 200 GB Hard Drive, DVD+RW/CD-RW Drive) (Personal Computers)
To the user reviewing this before me. This computer is by far not the best. It's GeForce FX5600 is definately a disappointment, a Radeon 9800 Xt/Pro or a GeForce FX5950 Ultra would make it alot better. 200 GB drive is nice, but I would replace it with 2 10,000 RPM WD Raptors in a Raid Array. 512 MB of SD RAM? What were they thinking? Clearly Double Data Rate memory is better, so why even bother with the Synchronous RAM, oh well. Good computer with the software bundles, but could use some help and fine tuning.

Good for the average gamer or video editor, but by no means a dream machine for a hardcore gamer.

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Why do I do this to myself!, March 31, 2004
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"ondamtn" (Flagstaff AZ) - See all my reviews
This review is from: HP Pavilion Media Center m390-b Photosmart PC (3.20-GHz Pentium 4 (Hyper-Threading), 512 MB RAM, 200 GB Hard Drive, DVD+RW/CD-RW Drive) (Personal Computers)
Found what I thought to be a good deal online for a home PC... till I had to deal with HP tech support. I won't get into all the details... But I do buy several PCs a year for my business & dumped both Compaq & HP, due to their poor support, in favor of Dell years ago (evidently when two companies w/poor support merge the service gets even worse!). Let me just say this, HP is fantastic on their printer and scanner support. They seem to continually update drivers for new operating systems and while under warranty have fixed the very few problems I have had. On their PCs arrrrggghh it's like the PC division is the evil twin of the printer division! Tech support and warranty service is aggravating & I know from experience you will NEVER find updated drivers when the time comes to change your OS. It's no wonder that HP has given away their market share to Dell and Gateway .. when you make trash and don't support it that will happen. I guess every few years I need to relearn this lesson ...
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars BEST COMPUTER EVER!, December 30, 2003
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This review is from: HP Pavilion Media Center m390-b Photosmart PC (3.20-GHz Pentium 4 (Hyper-Threading), 512 MB RAM, 200 GB Hard Drive, DVD+RW/CD-RW Drive) (Personal Computers)
THIS IS THE BESt COMPUTER ANYWERE! This is perfect for anyone who is into gaming, editing, music, etc. The tv out function and capture drive are extremely helpful. Automatically plays videos on your tv enev wen the video isnt maximized. The media center software is the best of the best. With the movie link, cable guide, and being abble to access your music, videos and pictures, all throught the media center, it cant get any better!
This is the perfect computer
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