How would you rate this computer?

Vista Premium (32-bit)

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6GHZ

3GB dual channel (2x1024,2x512)

256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400

250GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive

16X Max DVD+/-R/RW

Integrated 7.1 channel sound

Norton Internet Security

HP stereo speakers with subwoofer and remote (2.1)

HP multimedia keyboard and HP optical mouse

How would you rate this computer?husqvarna

It sounds great, esp. for gaming.

How would you rate this computer?microsoft office

To be honest I'd give it 5陆 because although that's quite a fast system you have there, there are imho a couple of weak areas. The main one I think is the onboard audio, a soundcard such as a SoundBlaster would be a vast improvement over your onboard audio, esp. when gaming.

Secondly, although that's not a bad card, a newer 512mb videocard would also improve your video performance.

And thirdly(sorry to say) Windows Vista. Vista is a massive resource hog and having Googled the results of various benchmarks, in most cases Vista is a lot slower than XP.

And Vista is incompatible with many popular programs such as Nero 7 and hardware such as the popular Soundblaster Audigy soundcard isn't properly compatible with Vista - its EAX surround sound function won't work with Vista.
Top notch, scale from 1-10 I would give it a 8.
On a rating scale of 1-10 I give it a 5 for being a general use workstation.

Not really fast and powerful, but not really slow either.

Not a good gaming machine because of the graphics card %26 that it's running Vista.
Its pretty good, Is that 2 1/2 stars?

The only thing that is kind of behind (not including your processor) is the graphic card. It well play games okay, but more of the bigger games, this won't be good enough.

I wouldn't pay more then $600 for this computer. (give or take any monitor).
As my friend borat says ,

very nice, how much !?!
Sounds like a high quality computer. But the answer depends on how much you paid for it :P