How much would you sell this used system for?

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Joseph Corrado

I have a lot of junk/older computer parts lying around, so I decided
to throw a system together and sell it to somebody at work who just
needs a word processing/e-mail computer..

White mid-tower case
350w Deer power supply
AMD XP 1700+
Asrock K7S8X (Sis chipset)
one stick 512 Mushkin DDR333
56x cd-rom
four-year old IBM "Deathstar" 80 GB drive (surprisingly, I have four
of these that have not died yet ;)
ancient Matrox Millenium 4MB PCI video card
56K v92 modem

Is asking $200 about right for this?
 
Have you informed the purchaser that there is likely no warranty on any of
the hardware components?

And that several of the components are obsolete/

I would recommend to the purchaser the s/he buy a new system or pay you to
build one with new parts.
If s/he still wants the old stuff, then at least you have pointed out the
downsides and are legally and morally covered.
 
Have you informed the purchaser that there is likely no warranty on any of
the hardware components?

And that several of the components are obsolete/

I would recommend to the purchaser the s/he buy a new system or pay you to
build one with new parts.
If s/he still wants the old stuff, then at least you have pointed out the
downsides and are legally and morally covered.
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No legal OS ?

Donate it to some organization that can use it and get a tax
deduction. It'll be really hard to get case for it.

It's a fine web browswer/email/word processing machine
all it needs in a NIC card to work fine on a LAN.
 
Joseph said:
I have a lot of junk/older computer parts lying around, so I decided
to throw a system together and sell it to somebody at work who just
needs a word processing/e-mail computer..

White mid-tower case
350w Deer power supply
AMD XP 1700+
Asrock K7S8X (Sis chipset)
one stick 512 Mushkin DDR333
56x cd-rom
four-year old IBM "Deathstar" 80 GB drive (surprisingly, I have four
of these that have not died yet ;)
ancient Matrox Millenium 4MB PCI video card
56K v92 modem

Is asking $200 about right for this?
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The CPU and Memory isn't too bad. I have an Athlon XP 1700+ with
512Mb!
 
Joseph said:
I have a lot of junk/older computer parts lying around, so I decided
to throw a system together and sell it to somebody at work who just
needs a word processing/e-mail computer..

White mid-tower case
350w Deer power supply
AMD XP 1700+
Asrock K7S8X (Sis chipset)
one stick 512 Mushkin DDR333
56x cd-rom
four-year old IBM "Deathstar" 80 GB drive (surprisingly, I have four
of these that have not died yet ;)
ancient Matrox Millenium 4MB PCI video card
56K v92 modem

Is asking $200 about right for this?
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Sounds right.

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I would donate it to a school or other organization and claim &400 charity
as a tax deduction.

Fitz
 
Joseph said:
I have a lot of junk/older computer parts lying around, so I decided
to throw a system together and sell it to somebody at work who just
needs a word processing/e-mail computer.. [...]
four-year old IBM "Deathstar" 80 GB drive (surprisingly, I have four
of these that have not died yet ;)
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Seeing as you're going to be the de facto "computer tech guy"
for this computer, don't put a hard drive in it unless you
ABSOLUTELY trust it.

Isaac Kuo
 
I have to respond here.

I was told by a lady I work with that her elderly stepmother purchased a
computer last year from a "run his computer business out of his house
computer guy". These are the system specs from what I can see:

White mid-tower case
Gigabyte GA-686LX4 motherboard (probably made sometime in 1998)
Intel PentiumII 266 Mhz processor
2 sticks 32MB RAM (64MB total)
Diamond Multmedia SPDSTR A50 AGP (8MB) videocard
Seagate Medalist Pro 2520 2.5Gb hard drive
Goldstar CRD-8322B CD-Rom (probably made sometime in 1999)
Creative CT2950 (Soundblaster 16 Value?) ISA soundcard
Standard floppy drive

I belive she also got a monitor (15-inch), mouse and keyboard.

And, all this for about $200.

System is now dead.

Compared to this, your computer sounds pretty good. I would just make sure
they understand no warranty is given or implied and all the stuff is used.
If they're willing to take that risk, go for it.

Patty
 
Joseph said:
I have a lot of junk/older computer parts lying around, so I decided
to throw a system together and sell it to somebody at work who just
needs a word processing/e-mail computer..

White mid-tower case
350w Deer power supply
AMD XP 1700+
Asrock K7S8X (Sis chipset)
one stick 512 Mushkin DDR333
56x cd-rom
four-year old IBM "Deathstar" 80 GB drive (surprisingly, I have four
of these that have not died yet ;)
ancient Matrox Millenium 4MB PCI video card
56K v92 modem

Is asking $200 about right for this?
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techbargains.com reported a few days ago that Dell had a Dimension 4700
w/ something like: P4, 256MB, 80GB, CDRW, FX5200, XP, Wordperfect, 6 mos
dialup ISP, 17" LCD shipped for $500.
 
Joseph said:
I have a lot of junk/older computer parts lying around, so I decided
to throw a system together and sell it to somebody at work who just
needs a word processing/e-mail computer..

White mid-tower case some generic Super case? $1
350w Deer power supply ugh, Deer? -$20
AMD XP 1700+ AMD? What HS/FAN? $5
Asrock K7S8X (Sis chipset) low end Asus brand used. $5
one stick 512 Mushkin DDR333 $8
56x cd-rom $3
four-year old IBM "Deathstar" 80 GB drive (surprisingly, I have four -$10
of these that have not died yet ;)
ancient Matrox Millenium 4MB PCI video card $2
56K v92 modem $2
Is asking $200 about right for this?
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No. You need to pay the buyer $4 to take it off your hands.
 
techbargains.com reported a few days ago that Dell had a Dimension 4700
w/ something like: P4, 256MB, 80GB, CDRW, FX5200, XP, Wordperfect, 6 mos
dialup ISP, 17" LCD shipped for $500.
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And Dell sells a basic 17" LCD monitor as an upgrade to an existing
computer that you already own for $299.00. That would make the computer
w/software worth $200.00.

Patty
 
Joseph Corrado said:
I have a lot of junk/older computer parts lying around, so I decided
to throw a system together and sell it to somebody at work who just
needs a word processing/e-mail computer..

White mid-tower case
350w Deer power supply
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In my experience, that PSU is a ticking time bomb waiting to take out other
components when it goes.
four-year old IBM "Deathstar" 80 GB drive (surprisingly, I have four
of these that have not died yet ;)
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tick...tick...tick....

Jon
 
Jon said:
In my experience, that PSU is a ticking time bomb waiting to take out other
components when it goes.
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I believe part of the ATX standard states that in the event of a PSU
failing no pieces should be ejected from the casing. From what I've
heard I don't think this is what usually happens though :-(
 
Joseph Corrado said:
I have a lot of junk/older computer parts lying around, so I decided
to throw a system together and sell it to somebody at work who just
needs a word processing/e-mail computer..

White mid-tower case
350w Deer power supply
AMD XP 1700+
Asrock K7S8X (Sis chipset)
one stick 512 Mushkin DDR333
56x cd-rom
four-year old IBM "Deathstar" 80 GB drive (surprisingly, I have four
of these that have not died yet ;)
ancient Matrox Millenium 4MB PCI video card
56K v92 modem

Is asking $200 about right for this?
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No, it's worth about $70. -Dave
 
Joseph Corrado said:
I have a lot of junk/older computer parts lying around, so I decided
to throw a system together and sell it to somebody at work who just
needs a word processing/e-mail computer..

White mid-tower case
350w Deer power supply
AMD XP 1700+
Asrock K7S8X (Sis chipset)
one stick 512 Mushkin DDR333
56x cd-rom
four-year old IBM "Deathstar" 80 GB drive (surprisingly, I have four
of these that have not died yet ;)
ancient Matrox Millenium 4MB PCI video card
56K v92 modem

Is asking $200 about right for this?
Click to expand...

Yes, Joe, that sounds about right.
 
I believe part of the ATX standard states that in the event of a PSU
failing no pieces should be ejected from the casing. From what I've
heard I don't think this is what usually happens though :-(
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The two capacitors that blew up in the Deer supply in question did not exit
the case, but the electrical damage it *did* do took out a motherboard.

I consider myself lucky that nothing else was destroyed; there is a good
reason why Deer supplies are not only considered junk, but also a liability.

Jon
 
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