eMachines T3304 (2005): A mediocre PC that I... like?
(7 August 2026) Often, we criticise PCs for poor performance in often various aspects, like poor CPU performance or awful battery life. And PCs with a combination of the AMD Sempron 3300+ and Nvidia GeForce 6100 are by no means "good". One is a junky graphics chipset and the other is an AMD Sempron. But I actually find this PC, the eMachines T3304, to be oddly charming and riddled with potential, maybe because I'm dumb or maybe because I'm not. So, how does the eMachines T3304 hold up in 2026?
Software used
- Audacity 3.7.8
- Paint.NET 5.1.12
- Notepad++ 8.9.5 and 8.9.6.4
- DaVinci Resolve 21.0.3
Music (in chronological order)
- Luge by Geographer, YouTube Audio Library
- June by Bobby Richards, YouTube Audio Library
- Swimming Lessons by Bail Bonds, YouTube Audio Library
- Commander Impulse by DivKid, YouTube Audio Library
Works Cited
- [1] "eMachines", English Wikipedia. Last edited 20 July 2026 23:21 UTC, accessed 28 July 2026 14:38 UTC-04:00. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMachines. - paragraphs 3, 6, 8 and 12.
- [2] "The FREE 'Never Obsolete' PC from 2000! eMachines eTower 566ir", Clint Basinger, LGR. YouTube. 23 September 2022, accessed 3 August 2026 14:37 UTC-04:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQo0yOqOb_4. - 1:33 thru 3:38
- [3] "eMachines loses Nasdaq listing", Robert Blincoe, The Register. 25 May 2001 14:20 UTC, accessed 28 July 2026 15:44 UTC-04:00. https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2001/05/25/emachines-loses-nasdaq-listing/1454963. - paragraphs 1, 3-4 and 6.
- [4] "Gateway completes eMachines buy", Ina Fried, CNET. 11 March 2004 23:10 UTC-04:00, accessed 28 July 2026 15:52 UTC-04:00. https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/gateway-completes-emachines-buy/. - paragraphs 2-4.
- [5] "Gateway unwraps new eMachines PCs", CNET News staff, CNET. 22 September 2005 18:11 UTC-04:00, accessed 28 July 2026 14:36 UTC-04:00. https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/gateway-unwraps-new-emachines-pcs/. - paragraphs 1-2 and 4.
- [6] "eMachines Desktops: T3304 Product Details", eMachines. Archived to the Wayback Machine 7 February 2006 1:08 UTC, accessed 28 July 2026 15:01 UTC-04:00. https://web.archive.org/web/20060207010820/http://www.emachines.com:80/products/products.html?prod=T3304.
- [7] "List of AMD Sempron processors", English Wikipedia. Last edited 8 July 2026 22:18 UTC, accessed 4 August 2026 9:09 UTC-04:00. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Sempron_processors. - table 5.
- [8] "DDR SDRAM", English Wikipedia. Last edited 25 July 2026 15:58 UTC, accessed 4 August 2026 9:11 UTC-04:00. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR_SDRAM. - table 1.
Media used
- EMachines_eTower.jpg by Ali West, CC BY 2.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 - via Wikimedia Commons
- Intel_Celeron_2020_logo.svg.png By Intel Corporation - https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/processors/celeron.html, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link
- NASDAQ.svg.png - The logo is from the following website: MARCO ANTONIO LÓPEZ NUÑEZ, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13253529