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Velocity Micro Vision GX (2.2-GHz Athlon 64 3700+)

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Pros
Nice-looking case; very expandable
Cons
Middle-of-the-pack performance

Performance: Very Good: 86
Features: Very Good: 81
Design: Good: 77

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	523
Adobe Photoshop	337
Adobe Premiere	391
Ahead Nero	488
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	271
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	304
Doom 3 with AA, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	29.1
Doom 3 with AA, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	23.8
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	63.8
Doom 3, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	54.6
Far Cry with AA, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	47.11
Far Cry with AA, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	29.09
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	91.2
Far Cry, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	65.93
Microsoft Office XP	545
Mozilla	337
Multitasking	626
Musicmatch Jukebox	476
Overall Graphics Comments	Monitor does not support 1600-by-1200 resolution.
Overall Graphics Score	Superior
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit	144.4
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	137.7
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	119.23
Roxio VideoWave	321
Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit	290.76
Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	270.8
Unreal Tournament, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	187.62
Windows Media Encoder	391
WinZip	389
World Bench 5 Score	100
World Bench 5 Word Score	Very Good

What You Should Know about the Vision GX (2.2-GHz Athlon 64 3700+)

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.