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Vigor Gaming Force Recon BT

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Pros
Competitively priced for a gaming PC
Cons
Limited specifications

Performance: Good: 77
Features: Good: 78
Design: Very Good: 81

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

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	326
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	350
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	326
Enemy Territory Quake Wars High 1024x768	111.37
Enemy Territory Quake Wars High 1680x1050	102.7
Enemy Territory Quake Wars High 1920x1200	92.67
Enemy Territory Quake Wars High 2560x1600	61.1
Enemy Territory Quake Wars Normal 1024x768	111.4
Enemy Territory Quake Wars Normal 1680x1050	111.17
Enemy Territory Quake Wars Normal 1920x1200	110.77
Enemy Territory Quake Wars Normal 2560x1600	101.27
Firefox 2	185
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	321
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	177
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	392
Overall Graphics Score	Good
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	190
Unreal Tournament 3 Highest 1024x768	97.74
Unreal Tournament 3 Highest 1680x1050	104.25
Unreal Tournament 3 Highest 1920x1200	103.29
Unreal Tournament 3 Highest 2560x1600	79.22
Unreal Tournament 3 Medium 1024x768	154.6
Unreal Tournament 3 Medium 1680x1050	154.94
Unreal Tournament 3 Medium 2560x1600	97.14
Unreal Tournament 3 Medium1920x1200	147.91
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	163
WorldBench 6 Score	127
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Good

WorldBench 6 Tests
Multitasking	206

What You Should Know about the Force Recon BT

Good Amount of RAM for Running Multiple Apps at Once

This computer includes between 1GB and 3GB of RAM, our recommended level for a new PC. This much memory lets you run any modern operating system and comfortably work with quite a few applications open. The more installed memory your PC has, the more programs 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 breeze, but usually it's worthwhile to buy the amount of memory you want preinstalled with the system.

To use more than 4GB of memory on your PC, you need the 64-bit version of Windows XP or Windows Vista. The PCs that you see equipped with 3GB of memory (instead of 4GB) tend to use the 32-bit versions of Windows that are limited to 4GB of addressable memory, the top portion of which is addressed by the various hardware devices on the system.