Home > Consumer Reviews > Compaq Presario SR5410F Desktop PC (1.8 GHz Intel Pentium Dual Core E2160 Processor, 1 GB RAM, 320 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium)

I bought this back when it had a $50 rebate and used a coupon at a different merchant. We use it hooked up to our TV with Windows Media Center. It's great, better than my old TIVO. We can record shows, burn them to DVD, and it's all just super simple. We've been using the default 1GB of RAM and have had some slow application use. Just ordered more to max out the RAM at 4GB (2x2GB). We want to add a PVR card to record a security camera too, but I'm not sure if that'll work, as it's already capturing live TV and recording. If you know, can you leave a comment on this please! Anyway this was to replace our old HP Pavilion Slimline s3020n that lost internet and USB function just outside of the warranty period. I would normally write off the HP/Compaq name after that costly incident, but this was just so cheap (after rebate) that we had to bite. No regrets so far at over two months of continual us.

I bought this computer to replace a eight year old Gateway that couldn't be updated anymore.I considered a Dell but had one of their laptops fry after just three years.I saw this one at Amazon and figured for the price
it was worth a try and I can tell you I am very happy with it.Vista takes a lttle getting used to but the computer hasn't given me one problem,so much faster then my old one.I upgraded the memory to 2 megs of ram it runs quiet and has been very reliable.

This is my first new out of the box pc and I love it!
The Windows Home Vista is great and my computor runs smooth and keeps cool. This computor comes with 2Gb of memory ( 2048 Mb ) and a 500 GB
hard drive. Great Buy and quality parts, which is hard to come by.
Every thing is user friendly. The graphics are great ( NVIDIA GeForce
6150 SE GRAPHICS ) iT COMES WITH A dvd/cd burner and has the light scribe technology which can laser silk screen graphics on to you're discs.
Comes equipted with a AMD Athalon x2 5000 doul core processor and this is every bit worth the money!
I purchased this computor 1 month before this review was made, and paid around 100 dallors less at Best Buy, than what is advertised on amazon.

I ordered this computer from Amazon with delivery being fast and effecient. I was replacing an older HP with this a new upgraded model. New Compaq was noisy, and in general seem to be cheaply made. My first experience at a return with Amazon, they are fantastic! No hassle return via UPS pick up, great experience, I will continue to be a loyal Amazon customer. While Compaq is made by HP, I think HP is worth the extra costs.