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Rick Rizner, John Goddard
The low-cost EMachines T6212 minitower is fine for most home and office tasks, and its $780 price is especially easy on the wallet. But you get what you pay for--in this case, a minimal PC in many respects.
Considering that the T6212 is fitted with a low-end CPU--a 2-GHz Athlon 64 3200+--and 512MB of DDR400 SDRAM, we weren't surprised at its relatively low WorldBench 5 score of 78. However, its performance was better than all but one of the similarly priced systems in our March 2005 roundup of cheap PCs. And the T6212's 160GB hard drive space provides more storage than you would expect at this price.
With its integrated ATI Radeon Xpress 200 graphics relying on system memory, the T6212 posted a comparatively sluggish 43 frames per second in Castle Wolfenstein and 49 fps in Unreal Tournament 2003...