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eMachines T5026; eMachines tech support

Jan 14, 2005 3:40AM PST

Has anyone had any experience with the T5026, which just came out? It comes with DDR RAM (PC 2700) - do you know if it can it accept DDR2 RAM? Can you swap out the video card?

Has anyone had experiences (good or bad) with eMachines support?

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Integrated graphics are OK for not playing the
Mar 21, 2005 5:52AM PST

current high powered games. The newest Integrated Graphics, GMA 900 (Intel Graphics Media Accelerator), is greatly improved over the "Intel Extreme Graphics 2, Intel Extreme Graphics, and Intel Integrated Graphics.

It offers sufficient performance such as office work & applications, word processing, spreadsheets, web browsing, and the like. However, as mentioned above, not exactly recommended for high end gaming. Also, it may be limited where HD Video playback is concerned.

I almost always suggest to someone getting a computer to get one that has at least an AGP slot to upgrade their graphics if they happen to get a computer with integrated graphics. The companies selling without an AGP slot will most likely not mention that aspect and in many cases avoid the graphics completely in their advertisements. These companies are saving aprx $60 by buying mobo/chipsets without AGP (or PCI-Express x16). And if they pay a little more & get a mobo with integrated graphics and an AGP slot, will not pay the extra $ to put in a AGP Video card...such is the business of making a dollar off the low priced computers.

Applications such as Word, PowerPoint, Photoshop or Acrobat won't run any faster on a bleeding-edge high-end card than on a mainstream offering.

Reason I strongly recommend an AGP or PCI-Express x16 capability, is that even when someone says "I'm not a gamer" so, this cheapo computer is fine, they later may realize that 'junior' is growing up and say "Dad, why can't I play Doom3 on your computer. Then again, like me, I was in my late 60's before a nephew showed me a game he was playing, and I said WOW, I gotta get a game like that for me & the grandkids, it looks like fun.

Thanks for the comments Dogberry.

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No
Feb 5, 2005 4:19AM PST

DDR2 will not work in a standard DDR slot.

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However...
Mar 21, 2005 6:24AM PST

Emachines T5026 has the 915GV motherboard which supports DDR2.
Roger

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Hi damasta ....
Mar 21, 2005 7:39AM PST

Do you have a link for that?
The emachine site shows the T5026 as:

512MB Dual Channel DDR 333

The 915GV chipset at Intel indicates:

Dual-Channel
DDR2 533/400
DDR 400/333

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PS.....
Mar 21, 2005 7:48AM PST
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Hmm...
Mar 21, 2005 8:24AM PST

I don't know, i can't find any sites that says it can run DDR2, but on the inside of the computer, there are 4 slots, 2 of the things that hold the ram in are black, and the other 2 were white, so i assumed the 2 unused were for DDR2. Also in the BIOs, the memory speed of the ram says 400Mhz and that it has 2 256 400MHz. I don't know what to believe anymore.

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That's to show...
Apr 11, 2005 12:04PM PDT

what slots you put the memory in for dual channel, not for DDR and DDR2.