HP Pavilion P6210F Black Desktop PC (Windows 7 Home Premium)
HP Pavilion P6210F Black Desktop PC (Windows 7 Home Premium)
A Lot of PC at a Affordable Price!
I brought this as a Debranded PC through a competitor for $249 (It only came with the Keyboard, Mouse, AC Plug, and NO O/S) to be used to replace an old P4 Desktop that was getting to a point were it was starting to get to loud, wrong color and size for the intended entertainment center, and most importantly it was starting to become unreliable (There is a slight short that would turn it off for no reason). So I started looking and found this Model it was the right size, color, quiet, and most importantly cost effective. Since I did not need the monitor, speakers, or OS (Thank God For Technet)so I brought it and was one of my best decesions ever made.
Not only is it great what it was intended for (Being a Media PC) due the upgradable specs of the board I was also able to turn it into a secondary Virtual Server as well (Running VMWare Server 2.0.2).
Worked first time up with no issues.
I changed out the processor that came with it to a Athlon ll X4 (P) 635 2.9 GHz (95W) processor witch gave it a Windows 7 index rating of 7.3 (It gave it a 6.0 with the old processor, see my system spec below) I hate to admit but even through my Primary Home Server that runs Intel Quad Core 2.66GHZ with 6mb L3 cache and 2mb L2 cache is rated better I found that this processor actually performed slightly better than my other one. With the less power consumption and performance of this processor I can create many different virtuals and still run it as a Home Media PC with neither one conflicting and lower running cost that my Intel Quad Core Home Server.
Swapped out the memory from 2GB PC5300 to 8GB PC6400, That changed the Windows 7 Index rating from a 5.3 to a 7.3 (Can be upgraded to 16GB and yes the RAM is obtainable).
I put in a ATI PCI-E Video Card 512mb x1650 that I had laying around that brought the Windows 7 Index rating from a 3.5 to 4.6 (Since this is not being used for gaming this is more than acceptable).
You can not go wrong with this PC for the price, great on price and overhead for running it and it is actually doing a little more than what had been orginally intended for.
System Specs: Debranded HP Pavilion p6210y
Windows 7 Ult (64 Bit)
VMWare Server 2.0.2 (Virtual Server)
300W Power Supply
500GB Hitachi Drive
8GB PC6400 Dual Channel Ram (2 GB PC5300 previously)
Athlon ll X4 (P) 635 2.9 GHz (95W) processor
(Previously Athlon ll X2 (P) 620 2.5 GHz) processor
512mb ATI X1650 Video Card (took place of intergrated 256mb GeForce 9100 Video Card)
Rosewill 1GB PCI-X (1) Nic Card (took place of
intergrated nvidia 100mb NIC Card)
High Definition 8-channel audio ALC 888S chipset
DVD-RW Lightscribe Burner
6 USB2.0 ports.
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great computer
I read a few reviews about the incompatibility with itunes. I would just like to say that I've ran itunes and synced multiple devices with this computer and have not had any problems. When you DL Itunes, make sure to get the x64 bit version.
I recommend this computer wholeheartedly, its a great deal for the price.
Read More About HP Pavilion P6210F Black Desktop PC (Windows 7 Home Premium)
A Lot of PC at a Affordable Price!
I brought this as a Debranded PC through a competitor for $249 (It only came with the Keyboard, Mouse, AC Plug, and NO O/S) to be used to replace an old P4 Desktop that was getting to a point were it was starting to get to loud, wrong color and size for the intended entertainment center, and most importantly it was starting to become unreliable (There is a slight short that would turn it off for no reason). So I started looking and found this Model it was the right size, color, quiet, and most importantly cost effective. Since I did not need the monitor, speakers, or OS (Thank God For Technet)so I brought it and was one of my best decesions ever made.
Not only is it great what it was intended for (Being a Media PC) due the upgradable specs of the board I was also able to turn it into a secondary Virtual Server as well (Running VMWare Server 2.0.2).
Worked first time up with no issues.
I changed out the processor that came with it to a Athlon ll X4 (P) 635 2.9 GHz (95W) processor witch gave it a Windows 7 index rating of 7.3 (It gave it a 6.0 with the old processor, see my system spec below) I hate to admit but even through my Primary Home Server that runs Intel Quad Core 2.66GHZ with 6mb L3 cache and 2mb L2 cache is rated better I found that this processor actually performed slightly better than my other one. With the less power consumption and performance of this processor I can create many different virtuals and still run it as a Home Media PC with neither one conflicting and lower running cost that my Intel Quad Core Home Server.
Swapped out the memory from 2GB PC5300 to 8GB PC6400, That changed the Windows 7 Index rating from a 5.3 to a 7.3 (Can be upgraded to 16GB and yes the RAM is obtainable).
I put in a ATI PCI-E Video Card 512mb x1650 that I had laying around that brought the Windows 7 Index rating from a 3.5 to 4.6 (Since this is not being used for gaming this is more than acceptable).
You can not go wrong with this PC for the price, great on price and overhead for running it and it is actually doing a little more than what had been orginally intended for.
System Specs: Debranded HP Pavilion p6210y
Windows 7 Ult (64 Bit)
VMWare Server 2.0.2 (Virtual Server)
300W Power Supply
500GB Hitachi Drive
8GB PC6400 Dual Channel Ram (2 GB PC5300 previously)
Athlon ll X4 (P) 635 2.9 GHz (95W) processor
(Previously Athlon ll X2 (P) 620 2.5 GHz) processor
512mb ATI X1650 Video Card (took place of intergrated 256mb GeForce 9100 Video Card)
Rosewill 1GB PCI-X (1) Nic Card (took place of
intergrated nvidia 100mb NIC Card)
High Definition 8-channel audio ALC 888S chipset
DVD-RW Lightscribe Burner
6 USB2.0 ports.
Read More About HP Pavilion P6210F Black Desktop PC (Windows 7 Home Premium)
Buying HP Pavilion P6210F Black Desktop PC (Windows 7 Home Premium)
great computer
I read a few reviews about the incompatibility with itunes. I would just like to say that I've ran itunes and synced multiple devices with this computer and have not had any problems. When you DL Itunes, make sure to get the x64 bit version.
I recommend this computer wholeheartedly, its a great deal for the price.
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