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HP Pavilion Elite d5000t

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Pros
Attractive design
Nice software and BIOS
Cons
Flimsy feel to the case and peripherals

Performance: Very Good: 82
Features: Fair: 66
Design: Good: 79

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

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	342
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	324
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	310
Doom 3 with AA, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	65.07
Doom 3 with AA, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	52.2
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	134.47
Doom 3, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	113
Far Cry with AA, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	118.56
Far Cry with AA, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	79.57
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	197.5
Far Cry, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	137.68
Firefox 2	211
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	331
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	193
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	349
Overall Graphics Score	Poor
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	197
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	199
WorldBench 6 Score	120
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Very Good

WorldBench 6 Tests
Multitasking	235

What You Should Know about the Pavilion Elite d5000t

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.