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(More customer reviews)Impressive Value! ... Though the 2.6 GHz Athlon II 620 Quad-Core with 2.6 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache may not be the fastest Processor one can buy at this price level, a second look at the rest of the components this desktop sports will justify the purchase and the enterprise.
With this configuration, You can tell that I am neither a gamer nor a professional film editor; hence a lightning fast firing processor was not what I was after. But my typical work session would include sending and receiving email, uploading, editing and processing photos in Photoshop, downloading movies and watching them, and occasionally using Skype while surfing the net, and at the same time, cleaning and defragmenting the hard disk in the background all at the same breath!
Such seemingly mundane tasks, while appearing innocuous enough, exact a heavy toll on the processing core of the chip; so a lightning fast dual only core would behave like a clueless cheerleader with two left feet; on the turf, she is cute and nimble because she memorizes her routine well, but on the dance floor, she is a klutz who can't chew gum and synchronize her dance movements with her dance partner at the same time!
Enter Quad Core processing power 2.6 GHz; though not the extreme speed that you might want if you were a gamer, it has a superb capability for multi-tasking with ease and agility; and that is where this powerhouse comes in handy; enough speed for most if not almost all applications, and enough multi-tasking processing power for four fraught applications simultaneously with ease and without klutzy performance or staggered inter-lapping allocation of processing power.
The 2 MB level2 cache proved readily and immediately, upon initial use, that it is crucial for the smooth procession of processed data throughout 4 cores, thereby augmenting the capabilities of the processor.
And the 6 GB of memory are the beauty behind this simple yet elegant power-capable configuration, while the fact that the motherboard is capable of handling 16 GB memory expansion put my mind at ease against design obsolescence when faced with Microsoft's unpredictable quirks for memory hungry OS development.
The NVIDIA GeForce 9100 Graphics Card, though integrated as is the custom in this price range, is another extra component that adds to the performance by freeing the processor from the burden of handling power-hungry graphics. An independent graphics card rather than integrated would probably have added about one point to the overall performance rating at about $50.00 added to the price, but then if you had no need for it, it would be an unnecessary expense. I am of the opinion that if your primary use includes a lot of photo and video editing it may be of benefit to you to spend about $50.00 for a powerful graphics card and install it yourself; it is a 5-minute simple job, otherwise the machine as configured is plenty powerful.
All in all, unless you are a gamer, my initial use has convinced me that this machine is very well designed, capable and indeed far superior for the typical workstation user than almost anything else out there within $100 price range, give or take, and bang for the buck, it is a hard act to follow.
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