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Sony VAIO VGC-RB54G Pentium D 820 2.8GHz

Thursday, April 27th, 2006 | Desktop Computer Reviews, Reviews

Coming in at a reasonable price, this sony vaio computer comes into a range closer to that of what I would like from a home entertainment system PC.

With the usual array of parts, like DVD burner, DVD-ROM, flash card reader, USB, and remote control, what makes sets this model apart from the others in its range?

The Pentium D 820 processor runs a little slower than the 3GHz version of the same cpu, buts allows a much lower price. The premium paid for the fastest is ridiculous at times and I’d rather go for the slowest in the range, than go for an older processor.

The layout of this model is a little more plain. Other models have extra audio/visual ports at the bottom of the front panel, whereas this one does not. There are still the usual ones at the back for the permanent connections you have.

One great thing is that this one comes standard with 2 hard drives in a RAID 0 setup. What this does it set the two drives up together, with the data being split over them and being managed by the onboard controller. The allows much faster speeds as things can be written to either of the drives saving a lot of time. This comes in handy when recording video as it requires a lot of information to be written very quickly to the drives.

The 1GB of DDR2 memory will do the trick and the 128MB ATI graphics card will give you all you need to connect it up to your television and get things running smoothly together.

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