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Conclusion
The Spectra 400 is specifically designed for users who are not comfortable with ripping apart and then putting back together their computer since, for a similar price, a more experienced user can put together something that would give them double, triple or even quadruple the performance of the Spectra 400. Plus, as mentioned before, an upgrade product such as the Spectra 400 will never give a user the same performance boost as a regular upgrade with the same processor along with a new motherboard and memory would-and our benchmarks proved that fact quite well. Time and time again, we saw the Spectra 400 give us only a slight performance boost when compared to a computer running at half the frequency of it. For the price--and the hassle, in mine, and I'm sure others', specific cases--the Spectra 400 is simply not worth it.
Pros
- Designed so that user will not have to take apart their entire computer
Cons
- Relatively high price; same price can buy much better components if doing a regular upgrade (-1.0)
- System/motherboard-specific installation problems; not mentioned unless the user runs into the problem and asks technical support (-0.5)
- Poor performance increase (-1.5)
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