Strange brands, internet & graphics cards...

[Dan]

I have quite a few questions needing quite fast answers: I was mooching around my local PC World last night and I have the opoetunity to buy an ex-demo P4 3.06GHZ 256DDR RAM machine with 15in TFT monitor, all for

[JBaymore]

The price sounds too good to be true for the specs........ so likely it is  ;D.

Never heard of them either.

Shared graphics cards are no good for FS work.  You'll likely have to disable it and install a good agp graphics card.  (It DOES have an agp slot, doesn't it?  What speed..... 4X, 8X?)  Shared graphics seems to me to be the hallmark of a "cheap" machine.  WHY it is set up that way in a machine with those basic "high end" specs is a REAL question for me.  

Caveat Emptor.

best,

....................john

[Dan]

Right.... I will check the AGP spec... The internet question was: I have my ISP running this PC fine. Can I run it on another PC, in the same house without being charged more?
Dan

[Delta_]

I have heard of Medion, my friend has a comp built by Medion.  The quality is pretty good, and he has had it for 1.8 years now, so they last aswell.

[Stratobat]

The internet question was: I have my ISP running this PC fine. Can I run it on another PC, in the same house without being charged more?

Yes, you can create a LAN session, that way one PC is used as the host PC for the internet and the other PC "piggy-backs" off the connected PC. I'm not 100% sure how to do it though, but I know it can be done.

Regards,
Stratobat

[congo]

Dan,

Shared graphics card = Onboard graphics chip = junk gaming!