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iBuypower Gamer 531-GN AMD Gaming Computer - AMD Phenom x4 9500 Quad-Core Processor, 2GB DDR2-800, 500GB, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT 512MB, DVDRW, DVD-ROM, Card Reader, Gigabit, 580W, Vista Home Premium
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iBuypower Gamer 531-GN AMD Gaming Computer
Introducing the iBUYPOWER Gamer 531-GN gaming machine. Customized and tuned to have the best value and performance with AMD Phenom x4 Quad-core processor and NVIDIA 8800GT 512MB graphics card, this gaming desktop computer is crafted for enthusiasts looking for more graphics and processing power in their next PC. iBUYPOWER’s standard silent cooling solution and enthusiast chassis allow for more upgradability in the future and the standard Microsoft Windows Vista Premium 32-bit Edition is the next generation platform for DirectX 10 gaming. Show you gaming PC off with a clear side panel, and a preinstalled neon light which accents the gamer’s graphics and internals. iBuypower ships all systems with professional cable management, providing the ideal tunnel for airflow within the system.
 Ultimate Gaming Solution
For over 10 Years, iBuypower has been providing configurable Gaming Desktops and Notebooks with the latest technology in order to stay ahead of the competition. iBuypower Gaming systems are equipped with flexibility, superior quality, and competitive pricing. Choosing iBuypower is your best choice!
Specifications
- AMD Phenom x4 9500 Quad-Core Processor
- Asus M2A-VM Mainboard
- 2GB High-Speed DDR2-800 Memory
- 20x DL DVD+/-RW Drive
- 16x DVD-ROM Drive
- 500GB SATA Hard Drive
- Onboard Audio, LAN
- NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT 512MB
- NZXT LEXA Blackline Gaming Tower + Red Color Lighting
- 580 Watt PSU
- 12-in-1 card reader/writer
- Keyboard/Mouse
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Detailed Features
A Closer Look
This Bundle Includes
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NZXT LEXA Blackline Chassis
Introducing the newly modified NZXT Lexa Blackline, designed with a menacing Black and Red theme, the Blackline comes equipped with two RED led 120mm fans running at 23dba and a top 80mm fan. The front is touched with an piano black finish and the chassis is reinforced by an 1.0mm steel chassis. The Blackline is also pre-drilled for external water-cooling and sports an complete screwless installation for 5.25", 3.5" and PCI-E.
- nVIDIA 8800GTX Compatible
- Screwless installation
- Pre-Drilled holes for Water Cooling
- 1.0mm Thick Steel chassis
- Stealthed clear side panel
- Three temperature display meter
- Glossy Piano Black Finish
- Low noise 1100 RPM@23dba Fans
- Removable Dust Filters for Dust Prevention
- Cable Organization via Rear Cage
- Ext. Ports: 2 x USB 2.0, Mic, IEEE 1394/FIREWIRE
- Headphone Jack |
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AMD Phenom x4 9500 Quad-Core Processor
AMD Phenom processors offer multi-core performance for life-like gaming, crystal-clear digital media and serious megatasking.
- Socket: AM2+
- L2 Cache Size (KB): 512 x 4
- Frequency: 2.2 GHz |
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500GB Serial-ATA-II Hard Drive
- Capacity (GB): 500GB
- Speed: 7200RPM
- Interface: Serial ATA
- Cache: 16MB |
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2GB DDR2-800 Memory
DDR2 is the next-generation evolution of DDR memory technology. DDR2 memory features faster speeds, higher data bandwidths, lower power consumption.
- Memory Size: 2GB
- Memory Speed: DDR2-800 |
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Asus M2A-VM AMD Motherboard
Enjoy DVI Supported Playback of HD DVD and Blu-ray Discs
- The first integrated VGA MB supports Playback of HD DVD and Blu-ray Discs with HDCP compliant
- Support Dual-VGA output(DVI-D&RGB) and SurroundView
- Support AMD Socket AM2 CPU
- AMD 690G Chipset
- Integrated ATI Radeon X1250-based graphics
- PCI Express architecture
- Gb LAN
- DDR2 800
- 4 x SATA 3Gb/s RAID 0,RAID 1, RAID10
- Max RAM: 8GB
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NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT 512MB:
Extreme Gamer, Technology Enthusiast
Feature:
- Full support for both Microsoft® DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 for unparalleled levels of graphics realism and performance
- NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology provides unsurpassed Blu-ray and HD DVD movie picture quality
- NVIDIA 8 Series graphics processors are essential for accelerating the best Microsoft® Windows Vista™ experience
Benefits of a GeForce Graphics Processor
- An exceptional visual PC experience
- Smoother videos, vibrant photos, lightning fast gaming
- Improved overall PC performance by up to 42% |
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20x Dual Layer DVD±RW Optical DriveThe internal DVD RW drive reads and writes all DVD, dual layer and CD formats. It's easy to install even for inexperienced users.
- Type: Internal
- Color: Black
- Speed: 20x
- Interface: ATAPI / EIDE |
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16x DVD-ROM Optical Drive
- Type: Internal
- Color: Black
- Speed: 16x
- Interface: ATAPI / EIDE |
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Latest Owner Reviews
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| REVIEW BY: jammck Reviewed
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| this pc is great!excellent performance and good price.great shipping ordered on sunday got following friday.everything was up and running out of box.2 thumbs up for ibuypower and tigerdirect |
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What You Should Know
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Even The Best Hard Drives Die.
Do You Back Up?
Businesses of all sizes
are witnessing an explosion in the volume of data they hold. Whether it is
the result of the Internet, email, or increasingly heavy and media-rich
application software, there is a massive growth in the volume of data all
around. Conservative estimates place data growth at approximately 80% per
year. Data is increasingly being recognized as one of the real assets of a
company, and losing this data would cause severe damage to any organization.
Data loss can be very costly, particularly for
organizations in the small and medium business (SMB) market where the
difference between survival and closure can rest on the ability to recover
from a disaster. At the very least, critical data loss will have a financial
impact on companies of all sizes:
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Data type |
Time to re-create 20 MB |
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Sales and marketing |
19 days |
$17,000 |
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Accounting |
21 days |
$19,000 |
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Engineering |
42 days |
$98,000 |
The financial impact on a company is a combination
of loss of business, low productivity, legal action, and the cost of
re-creating data. A study showed that the cost of re-creating just 20 MB of
data can be extensive!
Your best solution, is an external drive as a
backup. You can have multiple drives, and it is much easier restore
from a portable external drive, as opposed to CDs or DVDs.
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Why Do I Have
Less Drive Space?
Your hard drive may show less space than the published specifications due to
a number of reasons.
- The way size is calculated and
displayed.
- Any "Partitions" on the disk will
change the total in a specific partition.
- Hidden files and folders decrease
available space.
- Compression increases the apparent
size, but not the physical size.
- Drives larger than the OS or Drivers
natively supports.
 First, the definition of a megabytes
(or gigabytes) is a unit of data storage capacity measured in 1,048,576
bytes (or 1024KB). The larger the numbers, the more apparent the size
difference will be when listing the size as megabytes (or gigabytes) versus
bytes. Actually, both numbers are correct. The noticeable difference is due
to the 1024KB definition of a megabyte. This is why a 95.3GB hard drive can
also be listed as having 102 billion bytes of total space. Just think
of it as "round off" In the screen shot at right:
The first number is the total number of bytes,
the second number is based on the number of megabytes or gigabytes.
Second, some computers have a
non-DOS hard drive partition that is used for features such as Save to Disk,
Hibernation, or Recovery. This partition is not normally reported by the
operating system, although it can be viewed using a disk partition utility.
This is very common on desktops and laptops. NOTE:
Partition information will be created or
formatted automatically during initial system setup and a system recovery.
Third, by default, all system files
are hidden and cannot be seen. This may adversely affect the reporting of
available hard drive space. You can set your Folder Options so you view
system and hidden files and folders, but do be careful as changes to system
files can adversely affect your system.
Fourth, if you turn on Compression
for a drive, it will increase reported free space and used space, but since
compression is based upon the actual contents, this number is not fixed, but
will change as files are added or changed.
Fifth, older operating systems did
not support some of today's larger drives, so the total space reported may
be much smaller than the drive specifications.
It is also worth noting that bad sectors
are corrected by your operating system and can change the total drive space,
free space, or used space as well.
So as long as a drive is reporting a value
approximately close to the specification value, you can be comfortable that
you received the right drive and that you are getting to correct data
storage. Of course, tuning of your drive's partitions and options can
yield optimal values, but this is not something for the average user to
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Got Enough
Memory? Bet You'll Need More!
Windows Vista and today's software
applications make much greater demands on your system's memory. Adding
peripherals, like webcams, USB hard drives, and complex Internet pages, all
take memory. Watching DVD movies, or watching videos on the web, or
playing PC based games demand increased memory. So take full
advantage of your system's potential, your operating system's enhancement
and entertainment capabilities, and your software's productivity by expanding
your system memory!The best time to
add more memory is when you buy your system! Get the memory that's
right for your computer, whether laptop, desktop, or All-In-One.
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Memory? Or Where Did My Memory Go?
Your computer uses memory to run your
Operating System, applications, peripherals, and to generate and display
graphics on your computer monitor. Video memory is a form of RAM, and is
either built into your motherboard; or on a graphics card (video card).
Depending on the motherboard's configuration, and that of the video card (if
separate or built-in to the motherboard), your computer may have to draw on
its own RAM memory to meet its video memory needs. This creates shared
memory, where your computer’s RAM will be shared between its own Processor
(CPU) and its graphics chip.
The result is that some systems will have
shared memory, some will not. If you have 2GB (for example) of system
memory installed, you may notice that your system reports significantly less
memory. This is because your system is using shared memory for your
video.
What can you do about this?
You can actually configure this shared memory through your computer’s BIOS
settings. However, this is a setting best left alone, since it is
typically optimized for display performance, and making changes may impact
display resolutions, and other video capabilities.
The simplest solution is usually to either:
increase your system memory; or to upgrade the video hardware. By
upgrading to a new video card with built-in video memory, then turning off
shared memory, you will free your system to use it's maximum potential
memory, and provide your system with much more robust video features.
Click Here for our Memory Options »
Click Here for the latest Video Cards » |
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Memory Do You Really Have?
When you look at the specifications for a computer, it will display the
installed memory, and typically the maximum memory that can be installed.
However, while these are real values, they represent a potential useable
memory. The actual useable memory may be different from these values.
The reason is simply that a computer may configured to use shared memory,
which reduces the amount of RAM that is available to the CPU by using
some of it for other purposes, such as for video memory. In some
cases, you can control the maximum useable memory through system settings,
and by upgrading to a video card that has internal onboard video memory.
But always
remember, that the amount of memory that your system reports, is not always
the amount of actual installed memory. If you find that you need more
memory, we suggest expanding your system memory, since this is the most
effective performance increase, and the one that is easiest to perform .
Click Here for our Memory Upgrade Options » |
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Limited Warranty
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Manufactured by:
iBUYPOWER
Mfg Part No:
531-GN
UPC No:
Box Size:
( Length:
22, Width:
9, Depth:
20 )
Shipping Weight:
42.0000 pound(s)
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12 months parts;
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I455-5310
TigerDirect.com
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