How much is my computer worth?

10-01-2006 7:04pm

Hi,

I'm thinking about renewing my laptop and i'd be grateful if you guys could help me estimate my machine's worth. I've read the charter and i know that i have to take it to the for sale forum for the actual sale.

The machine was built on 22/10/2004. I'm away from home at the moment so i can't take any pictures right now. Laptop is in great condition and the battery is as new as i have really only used it away from the mains 4-5 times. Here are the specs.

Dell Inspiron 8600c
1Gb DDR 333 Memory
60GB 7200rpm hard drive
DVD + CDRW combo 24x
Intel Pentium M, 1.7Ghz, dothan core, 2MB L2
Windows Xp Home, licenced.
Geforce 5200go with 64Mb memory
BATTERY, PRIMARY, 11.1V, 9C, LITHIUM, SONY
56K modem
100Mb Network
Intel 2200BG Wireless Lan
15.4 inch TFT widescreen 1680* 1050, perfect

Sorry if i left anything out, just let me know. Thanks.

plonk · 12-01-2006 12:48am

plonk wrote:

ok ive got a dell dimension 8250
cpu: P4 2.66ghz
Ram: 512 rd ram
HD: 60gb
Graphics 64mbge force 4 agp
cd-rw

Selling this to a friend hiw much should i ask for
Masterofarealm said 400 but i think thats a bit on the optmistic side
And hes a good friend

shortys94 · 12-01-2006 9:22pm

What would this be worth

Dell Dimension 4600
Pentium 4 Windows XP SP2
3.06ghz (Never Overclocked) 1GB RAM
Nvidia Geforce 5200 graphics card
DVDRW
CDRW
Floppy drive
80 gb HDD
17 inch flat panel monitor(not sure about specs but its a good one:))

Dr. Dre · 13-01-2006 12:14am

gline wrote:

id say 400 maybe

Hey thanks. Sold it to a mate for 200!

TerrorFirmer · 13-01-2006 10:12am

plonk wrote:

plonk wrote:

ok ive got a dell dimension 8250
cpu: P4 2.66ghz
Ram: 512 rd ram
HD: 60gb
Graphics 64mbge force 4 agp
cd-rw

Selling this to a friend hiw much should i ask for
Masterofarealm said 400 but i think thats a bit on the optmistic side
And hes a good friend

It's not a bad pc really. Another 512 ram and something like a second hand 9800 pro and you have a decent enough gaming pc. I'd sell it to him for about 350 - the potential is there

shortys94 · 13-01-2006 8:28pm

any quote on mine?

Nforce · 16-01-2006 9:32pm

Nforce wrote:

Right folks.....sold the fx55 powered one .Any idea for the other system ?

TIA

Smeone must have an idea ?:(

ianmc38 · 18-01-2006 4:36pm

shortys94 wrote:

any quote on mine?

i'd estimate abiut €400-€500 on boards. Maybe slightly more via buy ands ell.

ianmc38 · 18-01-2006 4:38pm

Nforce wrote:

Smeone must have an idea ?:(

I'd price the other one at around €1600.

gline · 18-01-2006 5:09pm

shortys94 wrote:

What would this be worth

Dell Dimension 4600
Pentium 4 Windows XP SP2
3.06ghz (Never Overclocked) 1GB RAM
Nvidia Geforce 5200 graphics card
DVDRW
CDRW
Floppy drive
80 gb HDD
17 inch flat panel monitor(not sure about specs but its a good one:))

"never overclocked" LOL, thats because its a dell and you cant overclock with dells hehehe

because of the 17" tft id say u could get about 600-700 for this rig, at most, but in reality id say less

Coillte_Bhoy · 18-01-2006 6:38pm

Totally at aloss as to what my pc might be worth and appreciate any figures?

Dimension 4500 P4 2.4GHz/512k, Integrated sound, Integrated floppy drive

256MB 266Mhz DDR RAM Memory (1*256MB)

80GB IDE (7,200rpm) Hard Drive

32X IDE DVD/CDRW COMBO DRIVE

SW DVD Decoder for XP

ATI Rage 128 Ultra (16MB) Video Card

Harman 206 speakers

Scanner Bundle Epson MG 1650 UK

Lexmark Z35 printer

Any ball park figures? Thanks

galwaydude18 · 18-01-2006 6:42pm

prob around 100 - 150 as it has no screen!

gline · 18-01-2006 6:47pm

Coillte_Bhoy wrote:

Totally at aloss as to what my pc might be worth and appreciate any figures?

Dimension 4500 P4 2.4GHz/512k, Integrated sound, Integrated floppy drive

256MB 266Mhz DDR RAM Memory (1*256MB)

80GB IDE (7,200rpm) Hard Drive

32X IDE DVD/CDRW COMBO DRIVE

SW DVD Decoder for XP

ATI Rage 128 Ultra (16MB) Video Card

Harman 206 speakers

Scanner Bundle Epson MG 1650 UK

Lexmark Z35 printer

Any ball park figures? Thanks

300 or less

shortys94 · 18-01-2006 6:58pm

hey the 3.6 ghz has gotta make it a tad more valuable:):)

Endurance Man · 18-01-2006 7:01pm

baz8080 wrote:

Hi,

I'm thinking about renewing my laptop and i'd be grateful if you guys could help me estimate my machine's worth. I've read the charter and i know that i have to take it to the for sale forum for the actual sale.

The machine was built on 22/10/2004. I'm away from home at the moment so i can't take any pictures right now. Laptop is in great condition and the battery is as new as i have really only used it away from the mains 4-5 times. Here are the specs.

Dell Inspiron 8600c
1Gb DDR 333 Memory
60GB 7200rpm hard drive
DVD + CDRW combo 24x
Intel Pentium M, 1.7Ghz, dothan core, 2MB L2
Windows Xp Home, licenced.
Geforce 5200go with 64Mb memory
BATTERY, PRIMARY, 11.1V, 9C, LITHIUM, SONY
56K modem
100Mb Network
Intel 2200BG Wireless Lan
15.4 inch TFT widescreen 1680* 1050, perfect

Sorry if i left anything out, just let me know. Thanks.

On boards, i reckon around 800-900

.

gline · 18-01-2006 7:04pm

shortys94 wrote:

hey the 3.6 ghz has gotta make it a tad more valuable:):)

u said 3.06ghz not 3.6, what socket is it? 478 or 775?

shortys94 · 18-01-2006 9:01pm

o yea sorry, nevermind

18-01-2006 9:09pm

Thanks endurance man, I just bought another gig of ram for it so i might hold onto it for another year - i thought i had the cash for a full upgrade but i dont due to a bad creditcard bill

ianmc38 · 19-01-2006 11:41am

Coillte_Bhoy wrote:

Totally at aloss as to what my pc might be worth and appreciate any figures?

Dimension 4500 P4 2.4GHz/512k, Integrated sound, Integrated floppy drive

256MB 266Mhz DDR RAM Memory (1*256MB)

80GB IDE (7,200rpm) Hard Drive

32X IDE DVD/CDRW COMBO DRIVE

SW DVD Decoder for XP

ATI Rage 128 Ultra (16MB) Video Card

Harman 206 speakers

Scanner Bundle Epson MG 1650 UK

Lexmark Z35 printer

Any ball park figures? Thanks

I would say 100-200 tops.

Nforce · 19-01-2006 9:03pm

ianmc38 wrote:

I'd price the other one at around €1600.

For this ?? !!!

Dragon case (in green)
green neon fans
PC Power and Cooling Turbo Cool 510 ATX psu
Asus A8N sli deluxe motherboard
Vantec chipset cooler
4x 512mb PC3200 ram
AMD 4800+ dual core processor
Creative Audigy 2 zs soundcard
2x EVGA Nvidia 7800 GTX overclocked 256mb pci-e graphics card's
36gb Western Digital Raptor 10,000 rpm Hd (for os)
400gb Hitachi hd
Nec 3540 dual layer DVD burner
Plextor PX712 DVD burner
9 in 1 media reader

not a chance !!Since changed the raptor for a 74gb ,the nec for a 3550 and the plextor for a 716 .

Headshot · 20-01-2006 7:32pm

its a hp pavilion t335
and has lcd monitor,Hp pavilion f1523 {one dead pixel}

Operating System
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600)
Processor a
2.07 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Drives
80.00 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
46.40 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

ASUS CRW-4824AH [CD-ROM drive]
IDE-DVD ROM 16x [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
Conexant HSF V90 56K PCI Modem

HP Pavilion 061 DT032A-ABU t335.uk 0gT0211RE101FOCUS10
System Serial Number: CZB345075G GB340
Main Circuit Board b
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7N8X-LA Rev 1.xx
Serial Number: X312345678
Bus Clock: 166 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 3.07 10/15/2003
Memory Modules c,d
512 Megabytes Installed Memory

this what belarc said

what i really want to know how much is this pc worth if i was going to sell it

cabla · 21-01-2006 9:56pm

hey my friend has the following:
Dell XPX 600
He was too lazy to make his own
Windows XP Professional
Intel Pentium D 830 3.2Ghz dual-core processor
2x250GB SATA in RAID 1
2x1024MB@667MHz Ram
2X7800GTX in SLI
19'' Flat Panel
Nvidia DXG051 motherboard with 16x SLI and 8X PCI
Plextor DVD +R DL/+-R/RW/+-CD R/RW
Sony +- CD R/RW
Creative X-Fi 7.1 Sound Card
Floppy Drive/wireless keyboard+mouse/ext 120 GB HDD/digcam/webcam/Creative speakers/Tv Tuner card/Media card reader/writer/8USB ports/3Firewire

he is thinking of putting in Ram 2 x 1024MB@667MHz, another 500GB SATA HDD, another dvd dual layer, more cooling, new processor, maybe a 3.2 GHz Intel Extreme Edition 840

Madong · 23-01-2006 5:22pm

Think about selling my pc and wanna get your views on how much I should look for it :-

P 4 3.2 prescott at 3.8 (zalman cooling led 9700 cpn)
2 gb PAtriot RAM
BFG 6800 Ultra OC (AGP)
Asus skt 478 p4p800 Delux
Termlatake Shark Case
25o gb Sata HD

Advice apprciated..................

segasega · 23-01-2006 7:09pm

How much do you think this is all worth? I got it 2 years ago, thinking of selling it but just wondering how much I would get for it?

AMD Athlon XP2400+ 2.0 GHz

MSI KT4AV-L Mainboard Socket A Retail
KT400A, ATA/133, ATX, USB2.0, AGP 8X,LAN

MSI CD-burner IDE 52x/32x/52x

Sony DVD drive 16x/40x ATAPI

GlacialTech CPU-Vifte Socket A/370/FCPGA
Igloo Silent Breeze 462 II XP3000+

Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 120GB 8MB
IDE ATA/133 8MB cache 7200RPM

Sapphire Radeon 9200SE AIW 128MB DDR
AGP, ATI All in Wonder 9200SE, Retail

Corsair Value S. PC2700 DDR-DIMM 1024MB
Kit w/two matched Value Select 512MB

All in a iCute case, also added a firewire card.

netwhizkid · 23-01-2006 8:26pm

Anyone give a guess on what this rig is worth?

Dell Dimension 8400 Details
PROCESSOR: Intel Pentium 4 Processor 550 with HT technology
SPEED: 3.4GHz
MEMORY: 1024MB DDR400 RAM Dual Channel Memory (2x512) 1MB Cache
STORAGE: 160GB (72QQrpm) SATA Hard Drive,
MULTIMEDIA: 128MB PCI Express ATI Radeon TM X300SE
MODEM: V 90 Data Fax Modem Ireland/Spain
DISPLAY: 17” TFT LCD Monitor Flat Screen
OS: Win XP SP2 Home
MEDIA DRIVES: 16x max DVD+/-RW and 16x DVD, Two Drives one reader and burner. 3.5" Floppy Drive

I paid a smidge under €1500 for it last year, I'm interested to see how much depreciation has occurred since.

bobbly · 24-01-2006 2:06am

netwhizkid wrote:

Anyone give a guess on what this rig is worth?

Dell Dimension 8400 Details
PROCESSOR: Intel Pentium 4 Processor 550 with HT technology
SPEED: 3.4GHz
MEMORY: 1024MB DDR400 RAM Dual Channel Memory (2x512) 1MB Cache
STORAGE: 160GB (72QQrpm) SATA Hard Drive,
MULTIMEDIA: 128MB PCI Express ATI Radeon TM X300SE
MODEM: V 90 Data Fax Modem Ireland/Spain
DISPLAY: 17” TFT LCD Monitor Flat Screen
OS: Win XP SP2 Home
MEDIA DRIVES: 16x max DVD+/-RW and 16x DVD, Two Drives one reader and burner. 3.5" Floppy Drive

I paid a smidge under €1500 for it last year, I'm interested to see how much depreciation has occurred since.

mine is a fairly similar system to this, but 2.8ghz and 512 ram, and i paid 1800 3 years ago for it :eek:

dazberry · 24-01-2006 8:21pm

Could anyone give me an idea with this is worth?

Dell Poweredge 2500 Server
P3 933 CPU
512mb ECC RAM
2x37GB SCSI (10K) RAID
FDD, CDROM
Tapedrive

No software, monitor etc.

Thanks

D.

ianmc38 · 25-01-2006 2:09pm

netwhizkid wrote:

Anyone give a guess on what this rig is worth?

Dell Dimension 8400 Details
PROCESSOR: Intel Pentium 4 Processor 550 with HT technology
SPEED: 3.4GHz
MEMORY: 1024MB DDR400 RAM Dual Channel Memory (2x512) 1MB Cache
STORAGE: 160GB (72QQrpm) SATA Hard Drive,
MULTIMEDIA: 128MB PCI Express ATI Radeon TM X300SE
MODEM: V 90 Data Fax Modem Ireland/Spain
DISPLAY: 17” TFT LCD Monitor Flat Screen
OS: Win XP SP2 Home
MEDIA DRIVES: 16x max DVD+/-RW and 16x DVD, Two Drives one reader and burner. 3.5" Floppy Drive

I paid a smidge under €1500 for it last year, I'm interested to see how much depreciation has occurred since.

I've a similar system, just with a higher spec. I'd say buy and sell you'd be lucky to get €1000. On boards probably €750 or so.

TerrorFirmer · 25-01-2006 2:14pm

bobbly wrote:

mine is a fairly similar system to this, but 2.8ghz and 512 ram, and i paid 1800 3 years ago for it :eek:

That's deprication for you. a 2.8 with 512 ram is now worth about....300 maybe?

Netwhiz, its a nice pc apart from the shoddy graphics and could be a decent gaming pc if upgraded a bit. I'd say here you'd get about 700, Buy and Sell easily 900-ish...

netwhizkid · 25-01-2006 7:36pm

MobileInfantry wrote:

That's deprication for you. a 2.8 with 512 ram is now worth about....300 maybe?

Netwhiz, its a nice pc apart from the shoddy graphics and could be a decent gaming pc if upgraded a bit. I'd say here you'd get about 700, Buy and Sell easily 900-ish...

Yeah I remember I cut the graphics budget well to come under €1500 last year, The graphics card had performed admirably only once or twice failing to perform on the Simulator game "Railroad Tycoon 3" What exactly would a good card be? I wouldn't mind upgrading it maybe, They told me when i bought it that the system as a whole was very future friendly and if invested in sometime during the future could live possibly for 10yrs :eek: I hope they are right! I'd love to find out what is a good graphics card and which is a great card ! I could budget up to around €300 but I'm not really into gaming still I'd love to have "that perfect rig" :rolleyes:

Atlas_IRL · 28-01-2006 1:30am

Dunno if this is allowed but i need to know the price of a gc i want to sell

radion 9800 pro (agp)

might sell it in the for sale forum... what would be a good price i'd get for it?

TerrorFirmer · 30-01-2006 12:39pm

Atlas_IRL wrote:

Dunno if this is allowed but i need to know the price of a gc i want to sell

radion 9800 pro (agp)

might sell it in the for sale forum... what would be a good price i'd get for it?

Anything from 80-95 ish....

gline · 30-01-2006 12:45pm

Atlas_IRL wrote:

Dunno if this is allowed but i need to know the price of a gc i want to sell

radion 9800 pro (agp)

might sell it in the for sale forum... what would be a good price i'd get for it?

il pay 80-90 for it, pm me if u want a quick sale without posting it on fs section

LegacyUser · 31-01-2006 8:32pm

8000 euro! I,m not joking.:D

riptide · 01-02-2006 2:05am

mr. X wrote:

8000 euro! I,m not joking.:D

You're a fool!

rsynnott · 01-02-2006 2:27am

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3549 tbh

CyberGhost · 02-02-2006 10:47pm

Sorry DP

CyberGhost · 02-02-2006 10:49pm

Dell Dimension 4600

P4 2.8GHz HT 800MHz
512MB 400MHz
40GB IDE
Nvidia FX5200
TV Tuner
Audigy 2
CDRW
Floppy
Dell 17" TFT (No dead pixies)

Experts please ... B&S price and boards.ie price

steveland? · 03-02-2006 2:11pm

Just out of interest how much is this worth:

Motherboard:

Board: http://www.abit.com.tw/ AT7-MAX2(VIA KT400-8235) 1.x
Bus Clock: 166 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 01/08/2003

Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2800+
RAM: 2 x 512Mb RAM
DVD RW: RICOH DVD+RW MP5240
3.5" format removeable media
HDDs:

IC35L120AVVA07-0 [Hard drive] (123.52 GB) -- drive 1
Maxtor 6Y080L0 [Hard drive] (81.96 GB) -- drive 0

Wireless Microsoft Standard Optical Mouse and Keyboard
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (Microsoft Corporation) [Display adapter]

TerrorFirmer · 03-02-2006 2:24pm

CyberGhost wrote:

Dell Dimension 4600

P4 2.8GHz HT 800MHz
512MB 400MHz
40GB IDE
Nvidia FX5200
TV Tuner
Audigy 2
CDRW
Floppy
Dell 17" TFT (No dead pixies)

Experts please ... B&S price and boards.ie price

B&S, you'd get probably 600 or so, it's not a bad pc for your run of the mill family pc for general light use, pretty poor for gaming though, I'd say maybe 400 on boards, very weak gfx, small hard drive, no dvd drive, etc...tft really brings up the price though. For the base unit by itself, about 220-250 on boards.

There is upgrade possiblity there though. Swap the fx5200 for a 6600, up the ram to 1024 and throw in a dvd drive, you're grand for another while.

Steveland that's a decent pc besides the fx5200. Worth about 350/400 on boards.....probably get 600 on B&S for the tower alone. If you swapped that 5200 for a 6600 or even a 6800 you'd be sorted for playing fairly recent games at a nice level.

Canis Lupus · 03-02-2006 3:05pm

Just a quickie.

If I was selling 3 components: an xp2600 with hsf, an asus a7n8x mobo and a Hercules 9800XT what would be a rough figure to ask for it? I know it wouldn't be much but just looking for a ballpark figure.

Cheers for any advice.

PS I live in London so I can't sell to any boardsters. Sorry.

RuggieBear · 03-02-2006 3:11pm

If i wanted those components i'd pay

40 for the cpu, 40 for the motherboard and 120 for the 9800xt

TerrorFirmer · 03-02-2006 3:14pm

RuggieBear wrote:

If i wanted those components i'd pay

40 for the cpu, 40 for the motherboard and 120 for the 9800xt

120 is probably a tad steep for a 9800xt.....I'd say more 100ish

RuggieBear · 03-02-2006 3:31pm

HavoK wrote:

120 is probably a tad steep for a 9800xt.....I'd say more 100ish

well i just sold a 9800pro on boards for 100 euro plus P&P...admitedly with a brand new vga sliencer

gline · 03-02-2006 3:39pm

RuggieBear wrote:

If i wanted those components i'd pay

40 for the cpu, 40 for the motherboard and 120 for the 9800xt

sounds about right, though maybe 100 for the 9800xt

Canis Lupus · 03-02-2006 5:00pm

Thanks for advice

SeantheMan · 03-02-2006 7:16pm

How much do you reckon i could get for this

Please bear in mind it would be BRAND NEW, never used.
Obviously price would be lower if 2nd hand, but say it was Brand New. how much are we talkin ??

Mobo - EPoX EP-9NPA+ SLI,nForce4 SLI,Socket-939 ,ATX,S-ATA2,GbLAN,Firewire,DDR, PCI-Ex16

Cpu - Amd 3700+ 2.2Ghz
RAM- 2048Mb, DDR PC3200
HDD - 200 Gig
Sound - Audigy Soundblaster Live! 24Bit
GFX - XFX 6800GS (SLI compatible)
CD-R/W
DVD rom
Cool case with 3 Fans + Led screen
Genuine Editon of Windows XP Home
No monitor

dvdfan · 04-02-2006 1:50am

How much would i get for this???

Celeron 2.4Ghz (2400Mhz) Processor

256mb ram

40gb hard drive

CD drive

FDD NIC USB

Win XP Pro COA

Matching Dell 17" colour monitor, keyboard and mouse

and all with Dell's on site parts and labour warrant till August 2007

Also how much if the memory was 1gb instead of 256mb

gline · 04-02-2006 2:14am

dvdfan wrote:

How much would i get for this???

Celeron 2.4Ghz (2400Mhz) Processor

256mb ram

40gb hard drive

CD drive

FDD NIC USB

Win XP Pro COA

Matching Dell 17" colour monitor, keyboard and mouse

and all with Dell's on site parts and labour warrant till August 2007

Also how much if the memory was 1gb instead of 256mb

id say u'd get about 200-250 for that machine

TenLeftFingers · 04-02-2006 12:41pm

Dell Inspiron 4000 (laptop)

PIII 850 Mhz

320 MB Ram

60 GB 7200 Hard drive

8 X DVD+/-RW drive

U.S.Robotics wireless network card 5400 ( PCMCIA )

14.1" display ( 1400 x 1050 ) Battery life of 8 minutes! This thing needs to be plugged in all the time. The battery just gets me from A to B around the house and saves the machine if theres a power cut. This thing is actually surprisingly nippy. My mate has a new laptop with a pentium M 1.6 Ghz and 512 ram. The difference is there, but you have to look for it.

How much is my computer worth?

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