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ABS Awesome 3450

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AMD Athlon XP

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Installed memory	1024 MB
Memory technology	DDR-SDRAM

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Bottom Line

The ABS 3450 is a good fit for speed-fixated power users who are more concerned with price than having bleeding-edge features.

CPU Is One of the Oldest Athlon Processors

This system contains one of AMD's oldest Athlon processors, and though the chip offered "eXtreme Performance" in its day, those days are long gone. The Athlon XP is only a single-core CPU, and it lacks 64-bit capabilities. Don't buy a new system containing this CPU; if you buy used, however, there's no reason to avoid it. Just don't pay much for it, or expect the latest technology to accompany it (the Socket A motherboards it works with are no longer produced).

A PC With Little Included RAM Can Do Light Work

This system offers less than 1GB of memory, which is the bare minimum that any full-featured new computer should include. Whether this amount of RAM is optimal for you depends on the PC's operating system: Windows Vista and Apple's Mac OS X don't run well with less than 1GB, Windows XP is fine with 512MB and not too bad with 384MB, and Windows 98 is good with 256MB. Depending on the distribution, Linux can run with as little as 128MB, but most Linux users are better off with at least 512MB--and 1GB is better.

The more installed memory your PC has, the more applications you can run smoothly at once, and the better the system will perform. Upgrading memory in a desktop after you purchase the PC is a snap, but usually it's worthwhile to buy the amount of memory you want preinstalled with the system.

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