eMachines T6420

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This Review By: Dan Stroman


No matter how you slice it, with low-end PCs, it's all about the bottom line. And no one has mastered the price/features value equation quite like eMachines. As Gateway's budget retail line, eMachines systems are available only through chains such as Circuit City and Best Buy, and only in fixed configurations.

As shipped, the T6420 is a good entry-level or second system, and its expansion options mean it will have a longer lifespan than other budget boxes. Currently eMachines' top-of-the-line system, the T6420 shares a basic black-and-gray aesthetic with its corporate big brother, Gateway. On the system's front panel, you'll find mic and headphone jacks, as well as a single USB 2.0 port and an 8-in-1 media card reader.

Sadly, the T6420 does not include any FireWire ports. Inside the T6420, you'll find 1GB of DDR RAM, a big 200GB hard drive, and a double-layer DVD burner. Two of the four DIMM slots are free, as is a single PCI slot and a PCIe x16 slot for upgrading to an aftermarket graphics card. The easy-to-open case features a fairly orderly interior, but stray cables blocked one of the free drive bays in our evaluation model.

Built on AMD's mainstream 2.2GHz Athlon 64 3400+ processor, the T6420 is not much of a speed demon, but the system is powerful enough for casual use. On the the SysMark 2004 application benchmark, the system delivered scores statistically even with both the Pentium 4 521-based Dell Dimension E310 and the Pentium 519-based Gateway DX200X.

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