Pros
- Includes TV tuner; 19-inch LCD screen
- DVD drive can write labels to discs
Cons
- No room for extra internal hard drive
At A Glance
Media-centric system performed very well for a value PC; with its TV tuner, it could replace your living-room DVR.
The Specs
| Pricing | |
|---|---|
| Part Number | RF169AV |
| Inventory Number | 25432 |
| Processor | |
| Processor type | Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 |
| Processor speed | 1860.0 MHz |
| Memory | |
| Memory size | 1024.0 MB |
| Display | |
| Included monitor | No |
| Display size | 19.0 inches |
| Monitor model number | HP vs19 |
| Display type | LCD |
| Graphics | |
| Primary Graphics Chipset | Nvidia GeForce 7300LE |
| Video Bus | PCI Express |
| Video Memory Type | DDR2 |
| Storage | |
| Raid type | none |
| Drive size | 160.0 GB |
| Other storage |
|
| Expansion slots | |
| Open PCI Express X16 Slots | 0.0 |
| Open PCI Express X1 Slots | 0.0 |
| Number of PCI slots | 3.0 |
| Number of PCI-Express Slots | 1.0 |
| Green | |
| Energy Star compliant | 0.0 |
| Optical Drive | |
| Optical Drive Speed | 16.0 |
| Optical Drive Type | DVD±RW/-RAM |
| Included Drives | 1 |
| Storage Media | |
| Compact flash | Yes |
| SD card | Yes |
| Memory stick | Memory Stick |
| Smart media | Yes |
| XD picture card | 1 |
| Included Software | |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition |
| Ports and Connections | |
| Ethernet Type | Ethernet (10/100 Mbps) |
| Available Interfaces |
|
| Slots | 2 |
| Parallel Port | No |
| Case | |
| Chassis style | Tower (Midsize) |
| Internal Drive Bays | 1 |
| External Drive Bays | 2 |
Performance
| Overall Rating | |
|---|---|
| World Bench 5 Score | 108 |
| World Bench 5 Word Score | Good |
| Office Productivity | |
|---|---|
| Mozilla | 364 |
| Multitasking | 442 |
| WinZip | 331 |
| Microsoft Office XP | 506 |
| Content Creation | |
|---|---|
| ACD Systems ACDSee | 559 |
| Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL | 316 |
| Discreet 3ds Max DirectX | 300 |
| Adobe Photoshop | 313 |
| Windows Media Encoder | 276 |
| Adobe Premiere | 378 |
| Roxio VideoWave | 258 |
| Ahead Nero | 462 |
| Musicmatch Jukebox | 500 |
| Gaming | |
|---|---|
| Overall Graphics Score | Poor |
| Doom 3 with AA, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit | 3.5 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| Doom 3 with AA, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 4.5 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| Doom 3, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit | 13.3 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 16.63 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| Far Cry with AA, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit | 4.28 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| Far Cry with AA, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 8.19 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| Far Cry, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit | 15.59 Frames per second (higher is better) |
| Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 28.72 Frames per second (higher is better) |
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