is this bundle any good

TALON1973

TALON1973

TALON1973

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i this bundle in a well known electrical store..... did a look for it online and was cheaper instore lol i can get it for just under 140 notes.... but anyway is this any good ? :-

• Voodoo performance gaming motherboard bundle
• AMD Athlon™ 5200 X2 dual core processor
• 2 x 1GB DDR2 667 memory included
• Socket 940 AM2 processor
• ECS GeForce6100PM-M2 motherboard with performance heatsink and fan
• Geforce6100/ nforce430 chipset
• Onboard Nvidia® Geforce 6100GS graphics supporting up to 256MB
• Fast PCI-Express X16 graphics port for future graphics expansion
• AMD® ''Cool ‘n’ Quiet'' technology
• sHyperTransport™ technology
• Supports dual-channel DDR2 533/667/800 up to 16GB
• 6-channel audio
• 10/100 LAN for for ultra-fast networking and broadband
• Expansion slots: 1 x PCI-E X8, 1 x PCI Express X1, 2 x PCI slots
• Supports 4 x SATA devices, RAID 0 and RAID 1
• 1x IDE port for 2 x Ultra DMA133 devices, 4 x USB 2.0 ports
• AMD LIVE ready and Windows Vista ready

i'm upgrading from my aging ahtlon 3700+ .. will be looking to play hi-def movies ...with some gaming ( will probably add g card as well )

is the price good ? its a nice alll in one package but thought i'd ask opinions first :)
 
Ooooo i saw that one yesterday (in a well known shop...) yeah my mate brought one for about half the price (with an E2160 in it) and the board was PANTS! He took it back today as we just could not get it to work (i gave in at half 10 after 4 hours). Anyway conclusion is that its just best to spend a little more and get a real motherboard (they save money on it,...), this also applys to the ram...
 
ECS GeForce6100PM-M2 motherboard with performance heatsink and fan
• Geforce6100/ nforce430 chipset

Old chipset is oooooooold :p

Also ecs, oh my god, we see so many ecs motherboards come back due to faults it's unreal.
 
Edit, just realised epic mistake, wait two tics :p

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there we go!

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Well I just had a look at toms hardware benchmarks charts and it (well I say it, they had only test the e2160 which has a clock speed of 1.8ghz whereas the 2200 I specced you is 2.2ghz so expect higher results from that) beats an athlon x2 3800 (esentially a slightly higher clocked, dual core version of the 3700) by over 50 points in the 3dmark 06 cpu test.

The e2160 got 1556 points

The x2 3800 got 1508 points

and the 3800+ (slightly higher clock than yours but single core) got 959 points :p

Here's the link: http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/...,1318,1317,1285,1313,1312,1277,1315,1283,1282
 
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