CompUSA PII-333

CompUSA's PII-333 has a great price for a Pentium II-333-powered PC, but everything else about this machine spells generic. Shipped with a network card, this midtower is best suited as an inexpensive, fairly quick, and very simple small-business machine. Its speed is slightly below average for its class, both the graphics and sound chips are integrated onto the system board, and the speakers are Altec Lansing's low-end models. The internal expansion slots are accessible, but you're limited to a single PCI slot. CompUSA provides a one-year warranty and round-the-clock toll-free service, but we were not especially impressed with the quality of its technical support. Though most of the help we received was accurate, one technical support representative was not only condescending but also gave us wrong information.

SUMMARY

PRO: Bargain price, network ready.
CON: Low-end components, phone support quality needs improvement, shorter-than-normal warranty.
$1400; 168 PC WorldBench score, Pentium II-333, Windows 98, 512KB of secondary cache, 64MB of RAM, 3.2GB hard disk, 14X-32X CD-ROM drive, 17-inch monitor, integrated ATI 3D Rage Pro graphics card, integrated Crystal sound chip, 3Com 10/100 Network card.

CompUSA
888/226-6772
www.compusa.com

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