Is this a good deal for a 2nd hand computer- help

Ednagold

Ednagold

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Athlon X2 4200+
2 Gig RAM
GeForce 7900 GTOC graphics
160 gb hard drive
Motherboard : Asus A8N-SLI

It comes without a monitor so I need to buy one. I'm paying £150 for it, does this sound a good deal? I might put a bigger hard drive in later
 
Bearing all the above in mind if you look on a certain auction site that price would seem about right. End of the day you will pay the price your happy to pay but always be aware there are people that will pay that price and be happy doing it. Socket 939 stuff is going for what seems to me to be silly prices and people seem happy to pay it so the market is there for it.
 
Ednagold said:
I just want to be able to play left 4 dead and half life 2 etc
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It'll play them no problems :)

Wouldnt pay more than £100 for that really (though the x2 939 chip is some what desirable)

I ended up giving away my old 939 pc though (a mate was on his old xp 1300 based pc and it was driving me slightly insane haivng to use it....)
 
As said, individually because socket 939 stuff still makes good money, the kit would probably make £150 or even more.

As to whether it is worth buying for £150 is another matter though.

I'm sure I saw a c2d mobo, cpu and ram sell for under £50 recently on MM. Throw in a 7900Gt for £24 or even a 8800GT for £35 now (yes, really that is all they are selling for now), a cheap case and psu you could have a far superior system for mush less than £150 plus upgrade potential to boot.

On that basis alone my offer would be under £100.
 
This thread makes me want to cry, that's pretty much my spec that I've had for almost 4 years now, I can hardly believe it's worth so little.
 
yeah I just got rid of a similar specced rig - Athlon 64 X2 6000+, 4Gb RAM, ATI X1950Pro... all for £125! Gutted it went for so little but that's the way of it at the mo.
 
FaceplantSi said:
yeah I just got rid of a similar specced rig - Athlon 64 X2 6000+, 4Gb RAM, ATI X1950Pro... all for £125! Gutted it went for so little but that's the way of it at the mo.
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Mines an X2 4200+
2Gb RAM
X1800XT
A8N-E
160Gb HDD

Well that's what it started as, the processor alone cost me £350 when I got it.
 
lol

It's definately NOT good idea to pay 150 quids for such computer. You can complete very similar rig for about 100 pounds on Ebay (for example), or better for 120-130. Used.
For such games like HL2 it's sufficient, but price is too high.
Advantage is motherboard equipped with SLI technology, but graphic card is a bit obsolete (DX9), so SLI with second, similar one card doesn't have sense.

So if you are not computer-games maniac and your expectations are not too high, you can buy it, but for upto 100 pounds.
But if expect a bit more than simple launch HL2, try to buy something better, DX10-based.
 
As said from MM recently:

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8ghz
Asus P5B Motherboard
1GB DDR2 PNY 5300 (one stick)

£45

650W Black Silent Modular PSU with 24 Pin, SATA, PCI-e (Super silent EZ cool, ATX-650JSP, 2.03 version) - £15

RAM: OCZ Gold XTC v2 2048MB (2x1024MB) PC2-6400 DDR2 (5-5-5-15) - £18 (as 1gb is not enough IMO)

512MB NVIDIA Geforce 8800 GT PCI-Express £35

Asus Case http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-036-AS&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat= £26.44 (can't be bothered to source a 2nd hand case)

Total Cost: £139.44

For operating system put windows 7 on. Job sorted.

Okay you'd have to throw a tenner more as you would want a dvd drive but hopefully you see my point?


£150 you can have a half decent Intel dual core system with a graphics card which blows the 7900 away and supports dx10 and future upgradability as well.
 
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