A Powerful PC for Less: The eMachines T5082 Refurbished Desktop PC
We showcase computers on our TigerDirect news site all the time. From fast ones to ultra-portable PCs, we’ve done it all. But one category that I feel gets neglected is bargain PCs that actually pull more than their fair share of the load.
A cheap PC is one thing, an inexpensive PC that has the features, functions, and power to do almost everything (albeit with a little tweaking on your part) is quite another. I’d like, therefore, to take the time to introduce you to just such a Desktop—the eMachines T5082 Refurbished Desktop PC.
This computer is making quite a stir around the TigerTV labs. Yes, we’ve seen more powerful CPUs (We saw the Intel’s Quad Core’s the minute they got off the truck, after all) and Yes, we’ve seen prettier computers. But looks and newfangled components aren’t everything—the eMachines T5082 has got an
Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz processor , for pete’s sake. Unless you’ve got something very processor intensive, you’re not going to need more than 3.0Ghz of CPU power. And that’s not all, either.
The T5082 is cheap—well under $300.00 American Dollars. For that, you get the obligatory keyboard and speakers—but there’s a ton of features to this little desktop that make it well worth the price. A 160GB hard drive will store all of your data, documents, and multimedia. And you’ll have a whole lot of Multimedia—this thing has a 15-in-1 media card reader mounted flush on the front of the tower. The reader is finished in glossy black, in fact as towers go, this is not the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen. The T5082 is actually easy to look at, though it lacks flashy, pointless attributes like see-through side panels and flashing lights and alien eyes, etc. Did I mention it comes running Windows Vista Home Basic? I’m sure I didn’t.
There’s
512MB of DDR2 memory . That can be expanded in most cases for less than 50 US dollars, and 512MB is still enough to boot up and get this puppy motoring around the Internet. (It’s a series of tubes, after all.) And as long as we’re talking about upgrades and expansion (We are. I said so.) It behooves me to point out that the inside of the T5082 desktop PC has 2 PCI slots, 1 PCI Express x1 slot, and a singlePCI Express x16 slot .Strap one of our
8800 graphics cards into this tower, and it’s going to resemble the graphics equivalent of a Ford Pinto with a 5.0 Mustang engine dropped in it. If you get the reference, drop me kudos. There’s also multipleSATA connections , should you decide to install multiple screaming-fast data storage devices…I think you get what I’m getting at here.
Whether you need another computer to go in the living room (Your kids can download their brains out without filling your PC) or want to get a cheap start on a truly impressive build or mod, the eMachines T5082 is an incredibly inexpensive place to start. We’re promoting the tar out of this machine, so if you want one, you’d better get a move on. Because this is a Refurbished Model, we may not get any more once we run out. Check out the TigerTV video on the eMachines T5082 above or surf to the site below: I promise it’ll be worth your while, and worth your money.
[..YouTube..] Very first!!!
[..YouTube..] Very first!!!
[..YouTube..] e is for evil, go to ibuypower and get a true pc.
[..YouTube..] i’ll take 2cd =P
[..YouTube..] e is for evil, go to ibuypower and get a true pc.
[..YouTube..] P4 and 512MB for Windows Vista? I just can’t agree with that .. I’d recommend at least 1 GB for running Vista as it’s meant to be.
[..YouTube..] or cyberpowerpc, or better yet buy the parts and put it together :D
[..YouTube..] great deal for only 269 etc and you need at least 1gb of ram for Vista, I wonder if this baby comes with its own gpu card?
[..YouTube..] responce to zombie112: IBUYPOWER!!!!!
[..YouTube..] 8 or 9 yr old?
get em a fucken book, have them read not be playing flash games or have them on youtube like some folks
[..YouTube..] Vista on 512 RAM? It will crash under its own bloat.
[..YouTube..] 8 or 9 yr old?get em a book, have them read not be playing flash games or have them on youtube like some folks
[..YouTube..] That’s probably true.
[..YouTube..] Trash, don’t bother. Too much CPU for so little graphix and mem. eMachines are cheap crap anyway. PUTTING VISTA ON TRASH ALWAYS MAKES FOR A BAD IDEA.
[..YouTube..] Emachines are nothing but pieces of shit.. unless you just want to get online… but that’s just too little RAM.
[..YouTube..] Emachines are nothing but pieces of crap.. unless you just want to get online… but that’s just too little RAM.
[..YouTube..] not really ultimate uses 600+MB of RAM.
gateway=emachines and I got a gateway…and it runs vista very smoothly.
[..YouTube..] not really ultimate uses 600+MB of RAM.gateway=emachines and I got a gateway…and it runs vista very smoothly.
[..YouTube..] people are always saying emachines r shit?!! there not.Okay.fist things first.ALL computers r shit as they have there standard components as you buy them.people are saying that something like a dell is better.but it aint.computers are computers.unless you have say what…. 1GIG of RAM mabye 2, a decent graphics card, probably the ATI brand,decent enough space, processors running at a good speed,probably 3.0 GHz just basically upgrading your PC parts
[..YouTube..] people are always saying emachines r crap?!! there not.Okay.fist things first.ALL computers r crap as they have there standard components as you buy them.people are saying that something like a dell is better.but it aint.computers are computers.unless you have say what…. 1GIG of RAM mabye 2, a decent graphics card, probably the ATI brand,decent enough space, processors running at a good speed,probably 3.0 GHz just basically upgrading your PC parts
[..YouTube..] this computer is great!!! i ordered this from Tigerdirect and installed my Nvidia BFG Geforce 6200 OC video card on this machine and it ran COunter Strike Source smoothly!! no laggs!!!
[..YouTube..] what the hell?!!!! i paid $500 for mine!
[..YouTube..] just downgrade to xp. then you dont need more ram
[..YouTube..] ROFL You paid to much!
[..YouTube..] We don’t buy non-laptop/notebook computers anymore, we just build ‘em! Yeah it might cost more, but at least you know what you’re putting in, and you don’t have to deal with cheap power supplies and such!
The old machine I had before was probably better than this! (Even though the motherboard overheated one too many times).
[..YouTube..] funny video! I have my WEB CAM live running most of the time, the link is in my profile, I am doing a strip show
[..YouTube..] Crazy video, look at my sexually explicit profile, I have a link to it, in my youtube profile.
[..YouTube..] Could i run Team fortress 2 on this, anybody?