Dell 2.4GHz Pentium 4 Desktop Computer (Refurbished)

The hard drive has almost no space. Its very slow and really only good for searching the internet. Just running Office on it basically is all it seems to handle. The DVD/CD drive only works sporadically. The Video card is very, very low.

Specs stated it had dvd rw feature, but no burning software included. Not even sure it's a dvd-rw drive. Missing quite a few essential components. Won't even PLAY a dvd. But i needed a cheap replacement in a jiffy. Works well enough, just not what I thought I ordered. Also, it HUMS quite loudly, at times sounds like a washing machine. The Optiplex 170L I originally had, was perfect, with lots of extras (burning capabilities, microsoft office, etc.), but a severe virus locked it up, no fault of Dell or Overstock. This GX270 is a smaller (in size) version of that and probably wasn't worth the cheap refurbished price afterall.

great product for the price. came in a timely manner. packaged and everything, just needed a few restarts before it got to working properly. has operating systems but no program software, which is no biggie i just use computer for quick browsing and research.

It came with XP Pro SP2, booted up perfectly. I upgraded the computer with 2 Gig of ram and a 160 Gig hard drive, with 2 partitions. I installed VMWare Server also and am running a windows 2003 server machine inside of it. The performance is very good for what I need just to do some testing. The computer is pretty small and does not take up too much space standing up. I hope it will last a few years, I am very happy with it so far. Only negative thing is there are only 2 slots but are half height AGP(1) and PCI(1). It would be a nice DVR but you would have to find a half height TV Tuner card.