OT: Do I go for this system?

[Neil Barras]

Hi all, it's me again,

I have had an offer from a colleague at work to buy (one of his many) PC's.
The spec are as follows:

P4 Prescott @2.8GHz,
Asus P5GD1-Deluxe (I think),
512MB PC3200,
80GB SATA HD,
128MB PCI-E GeForce6600GT,
400 ColorsIT PSU,
NEC DVD+-RW,
Gd ol' Floppy!
Alien Green Zorro Case with Window and Neon.

He bought and assembled it for £570 not long ago, and has offered it to me
for £450. Do I say yes?

Cheers,

Neil
--
Gaming Rig in development = P4 Prescott @2.8GHz, 512MB PC3200, 80GB SATA HD,
128MB GeForce6600GT, 400 ColorsIT PSU, Alien Green Zorro Case with Window
and Neon.
Desktop = P4 Northwood @ 2.6GHz, 512MB PC2100, 120GB HD, 256MB (I now
realize this is overkill!) XFX GeForce5500, Stock 350w PSU
Oldest Laptop = 486 @ 75MHz, 20MB RAM, 1.4GB HD, Unknown Integrated Graphics
Old Laptop = P3 Coppermine @ 600MHz, 192 PC100, 12GB HD, ATi Rage Pro 4MB
New Laptop = PM Dothan @ 1.6GHz, 512 PC2700, 80GB HD, 64MB ATi Mobility
Radeon 9200
All still in use!

 

[Inglo]

Hi all, it's me again,

I have had an offer from a colleague at work to buy (one of his many) PC's.
The spec are as follows:

P4 Prescott @2.8GHz,
Asus P5GD1-Deluxe (I think),
512MB PC3200,
80GB SATA HD,
128MB PCI-E GeForce6600GT,
400 ColorsIT PSU,
NEC DVD+-RW,
Gd ol' Floppy!
Alien Green Zorro Case with Window and Neon.

He bought and assembled it for £570 not long ago, and has offered it to me
for £450. Do I say yes?

Cheers,

Neil

You could buy all that stuff new for about the same price. Is the HDD
blank or is it completely set up for what you want to do with it? It's
not a terrible deal but I'd offer £400. I'd personally never spend more
than $500 USD (£275) on a used computer.

 

[Neil Barras]

You could buy all that stuff new for about the same price. Is the HDD
blank or is it completely set up for what you want to do with it? It's
not a terrible deal but I'd offer £400. I'd personally never spend more
than $500 USD (£275) on a used computer.



--
"I don't feel tardy"

Steve ¤»Inglo«¤
www.inglostadt.com

Configured on Novatech to a similar/damn near equivalent system, the whole
price comes in at £580! That's £580 and then the time-cost of building it;
as opposed to having it all setup beforehand. The system has been hardly
used, as it has only been in an office of a high street PC repair centre. I
am completely competent in formatting and doing my own setup on the HDD, so
that isn't a problem.

Thanks for your input,

Neil

 

[Alex Devlin]

Configured on Novatech to a similar/damn near equivalent system, the
whole price comes in at £580! That's £580 and then the time-cost of
building it; as opposed to having it all setup beforehand. The system
has been hardly used, as it has only been in an office of a high street
PC repair centre. I am completely competent in formatting and doing my
own setup on the HDD, so that isn't a problem.

Thanks for your input,

Neil

It sounds like you're happy with the price and the system, so go ahead and
buy it. If it does all that you want it to do then there's nobody else to
convince but yourself.

 

[Aloe]

snip>>> You could buy all that stuff new for about the same price. Is the
HDD
still seems a little expensive considering the tech in it is pretty dated.
personally i think £300 is more of the mark, but if you cant build a pc,
then that figure is meaningless really.

 

[Phil Weldon]

And the warranty is how long? Do the warranties transfer? And your
colleague wants to sell it why? Don't get into a situation where each of
you ends in thinking he has done the other a favor.

And, the following

1. Prescott 2.8 GHz |at only 2.8 GHz, a Northwood would give you a cooler,
quieter, more overclocking friendly, and possibly more capable (for most
purposes) CPU

2. Asus P5GD1-Deluxe ~

3. 512 Mbyte PC3200 ~ not much headroom if you were to overclock

4. 80 Gbyte SATA HD ~ sorta small compared to today's drives

5. 128 MByte PCI-3 GeForce6600GT |good unless you are willing to spend
MUCH more

6. 400 ColorsIT PSU |?

7. NEC DVD+-RW |OK,

8. Gd ol' Floppy |Might as well

9. Alien Green Zorro Case with Window and Neon |sorta fancy for a system
otherwise plain vanilla.

10. What OS, what sound card, what amplifier/speaker system?

On the other hand, Dell UK offer the Dimension 8400 for £479, inc. VAT;

Pentium 4 530 (3.00 GHz)
Windows XP Home
MS Works
512MByte Dual Channel DDRw RAM
15" LCD Monitor
160 GByte Hard Drive
48X CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive
ATI Radeon X300SE 128 MByte PCI-Express
Dell 215 Stereo Speakers
1 year warranty
Colour printer

The Dell may not be what you want, but it IS a starting point for
negotiation.

Phil Weldon

 

[MP]

I have had an offer from a colleague at work to buy (one of his many)
PC's. The specs are as follows: <snip>

Lessee...£450 (GBP?) = $815.71 USD. Sounds reasonable to me. Might want to
add another 512MB stick of RAM, and the HDD *is* Serial ATA - that's a plus.
Decent graphics card, too.

Plus, if anything goes wrong, you know where he lives.

Mark

 

[First of One]

You say "£400".