do you think hp pavillion desktop is a good buy with shader 2 inside .need help badly as got dell at moment and rubbish wont play any dtp games or any of the new games out

Shader 2 is old now. The current Shader is 5.

Matty, I don't know that all HP Pavilions have integrated graphics cards but mine did and it sucked. It was really unhappy playing newer, more demanding games.

Gil.

Matty

It's not just the brand name of a computer you look at when buying a system. Your best bet is to look at what you can put into the system like the most RAM you can, a good video card, good sound card, large Hard Drives etc etc. You need to look at the specs and go from there.

Consider that any of the well know PC builders all share a great many of their components. They don't make their own hard drives, or RAM, or video cards, and motherboards; they build from stock stuff and use chipsets from NVidia, ATI, Creative Labs to name a few.