Wintergreen AMD Sempron 2400+ (1.66GHz)
This AMD based Computer offers a fair amount of value for the money you pay, especially with the rebates that are offered. The specification is good, but will leave something to be desired from those looking for a high powered computer. This cheap desktop computer does well as a day to day work machine, but does not manage well out of the range of surfing the net and typing documents.
Now, a breakdown of the system and it’s components.
It’s an ATX tower case, with 4 CD-ROM size expansion bays and two floppy drive sized ones. There is a free AGP slot inside as well as 3 PCI slots if you plan to expand.
Audio is built in, handled by the motherboard, and it has both LAN support and USB support.
The processor is a respectable AMD Sempron 2400+/1.66 GHz. These processors are now the low end of the AMD scale, rivalling the Intel Celeron chips on pricing, but outdoing them in terms of performance.
The bus speed on this computer is 667MHz, which means that the RAM can run up to 333MHz, and the internal clock of the chip will be running at 166MHz.
There have been reports of the computer shipping with the wrong memory, but don’t expect to get more than the 256MB of DDR333/PC2700 that comes with it. There seems to have been a typing error on advertising before saying that DDR400/PC3200 RAM memory was included.
The hard drive is a 40GB, 7200RPM drive. This is on the small side, but still enough for a whole lot of information. The optical drive is a CDRW. It is as fast as they get, but has no support for reading or writing DVDs. There is an included floppy drive.
Graphics are handled by a video card built into the motherboard. Respectable, but not good at high performance things like new games.
The included power supply is said to be a 450W power supply, which is quite surprising. Sometimes computers in this range can have power supplies that are under 300watts. Good spec.
It also comes with a mouse and a keyboard. Unfortunately reports have it that the keyboard bends, even under the pressure of pushing the buttons, and one consumer has reported that the mouse is about the worst he has ever used.
There are a mixed batch of reports from consumers on this computer. Good reports are always worth reading, as they help to pinpoint the good parts of the system. Most things go right most of the time, but it’s how things go when they are not alright that really sets one computer and computer company apart from another.
The WintergreenSys company lets down in this department. There have been more than a few reports of computers that are shipped without being assembled properly. Screws missing, and memory not installed properly. Extras that are supposed to come with the computer being left out of the package. Also little problems like power switches not working, and computers randomly restarting are not uncommon. It’s the most negative reports I have seen since I’ve been doing review of desktop computers.
So if you are looking for a system that will start and work from the word ‘go’ I think you need to look elsewhere. You might need to open the computer and put parts back in properly to get this thing working. It’s a good deal, but very poor is you do find something amis.