How much is this worth

calibre · 06-09-2005 1:21pm #1

I'm thinking of selling my desktop PC. How much do you think it's worth?

Dell Dimension
Pentium 2.4Ghz
1 Gig RAM
80 Gig HD
64MB GeForxe MX420 (I think)
DVD/CD Burner
Zip Drive
Floppy Drive
Firewire card
Network card
Dell 17" Monitor

Cheers

Ri_Nollaig · 06-09-2005 1:31pm

rubbish graphics card, good amount of ram, okish cpu, is the monitor LCD or CRT ? im guessing 400ish

Rollo Tamasi · 06-09-2005 1:34pm

you certainly wouldn't get more than 500 anyway

beller b · 06-09-2005 1:37pm

I say you would get the €500 if the cd/dvd burner was dual layer multi format. Is the monitor TFT?

calibre · 06-09-2005 1:59pm

nope, it's a standard CRT monitor. The PC is about 2.5 years old.

I was thinking €400-€500 would be about right

cheers

beller b · 06-09-2005 2:02pm

I wouldn,t accept less than €400 tbh

unkel · 06-09-2005 2:11pm

You'd have difficulty getting €400 for it here, imho

But I might be wrong, we shall see when you put it up for sale

calibre · 06-09-2005 2:11pm

It cost me about €1700 I think.....just shows you how much PC's devalue over time!

I'm looking to offload it and buy a laptop. Anyone have any experience of the Dell XPS gen 2? (should probably start a new thread on that)

TerrorFirmer · 06-09-2005 2:17pm

The main problem is the Graphics card. A geforce 4 mx in a 2.4ghz, 1gig ram machine is an utter waste of good resources.

Stick either a Radeon 9700 or 9800 in it and you'll jump from a crap last gen pc that won't play any new games to a decent pc that will play Battlefield 2.

With a change of gfx card, you'll get about 500 for the package.

Or off boards, about 600...or even more.

Rollo Tamasi · 06-09-2005 2:35pm

i dont think it is ever a good idea to buy a part for a PC just to improve its price slightly, you'd be better of selling it on as it is and not tempting fate by buying a better graphics card and then finding out that you're actually losing more money!

BigEejit · 06-09-2005 2:48pm

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

i dont think it is ever a good idea to buy a part for a PC just to improve its price slightly, you'd be better of selling it on as it is and not tempting fate by buying a better graphics card and then finding out that you're actually losing more money!

Unless you can get that part cheep cheep cheep ... have a look in for sale, bargins come up now and again

calibre · 06-09-2005 2:59pm

I don't think I'll add anything to it, I'll just let it go as is and the new owner can upgrade if they want.

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