How much would you sell this used system for?

[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?

 

[Howard Kaikow]

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.

 

[Al Dykes]

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.

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.

 

[Predator]

with no monitor? yeah it is, but if he thinks 200$ is enough take it!

 

[petermcmillan_uk]

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?

The CPU and Memory isn't too bad. I have an Athlon XP 1700+ with
512Mb!

 

[spodosaurus]

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?

Sounds right.

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[Fitz]

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

Fitz

 

[IsaacKuo]

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

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

 

[Patty]

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

 

[Gary J. Tait]

No legal OS ?

Can use Linux. I run a simpler Linux on my spare machine.

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

Case is in that list.

 

[Matt]

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?

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.

 

[Michael Cecil]

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?

No. You need to pay the buyer $4 to take it off your hands.

 

[Patty]

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.

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

 

[Jon Danniken]

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

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

tick...tick...tick....

Jon

 

[petermcmillan_uk]

In my experience, that PSU is a ticking time bomb waiting to take out other
components when it goes.

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 :-(

 

[jacoby]

Put it on ebay and you will find out exactly what it is worth.

 

[Dave C.]

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?

No, it's worth about $70. -Dave

 

[Dave C.]

Put it on ebay and you will find out exactly what it is worth.

Yeah, he'll have to pay to list it several times. -Dave

 

[Hackworth]

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?

Yes, Joe, that sounds about right.

 

[Jon Danniken]

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 :-(

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