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which one of these two PCs would you recommend?

Anonymous
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Which one of the following two PCs would you guys recommend, I’ll be using AC 9 on Win XP Home Edition (really the main difference is the video card and the brand in general)

Dell Dimension 4700
Intel Pentium 4-HT 530, 3.0GHz
128MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon™ X300 SE
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 400MHz (4x256M)

Medion 4210E
Intel Pentium 4-HT 530, 3.0GHz
NVIDIA GeForce 5300 128MB PCI Express
1024MB DDR
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Stephen Dolbee
Booster
The Dell. I'm on my third one-always been satisfied.

Steve
AC19(9001), 27" iMac i7, 12 gb ram, ATI Radeon HD 4850 512mb, OS 10.12.6
Anonymous
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get an AMD !
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
From these two, Dell seems to be the better chioce, as dual-channel DDR2 memory is faster than normal DDR memory.
Also, its graphics card is faster - the ATI X300 is a more recent development than the NVidia 5300.
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AMD Ryzen9 5900X CPU, 64 GB RAM 3600 MHz, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB, 500 GB NVMe SSD
2x28" (2560x1440), Windows 10 PRO ENG, Ac20-Ac27
Anonymous
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Dell, though would recomend at least 2 gig ram, several threads have noticed large difference. Spent a lot of time looking at all of this before buying 2 systems last month. very happy with performance