How much is this computer worth?

[John Corn]

I have a buddy that wants to sell me his puter, whats a reasonable offer for this?

Case:
Antec Super Mini Tower
8 drive bays
300 watt ATX 12v power supply
1 80mm exhaust fan
1 80mm intake fan

Motherboard:
MSI K7T266PRO2 Motherboard
4 x AGP
200/266 Front Side Buss w/ BIOS Stepping
Integrated Hardware Sound Blaster/Direct Sound AC97 audio
UDMA 33/66/100 master mode PCI EIDE controller
5 PCI slots – 3 available
4 rear/2 front USB 1.1 ports

Processor:
AMD Athlon 1800 (1.53GHz)
(Artic Silver Thermal Compound Used)
Antec Quite Cool Premium CPU Cooler/Heatsink

Memory:
(512Meg) = 2 DDR 256MB 266Mhz (PC2100) 184Pin Memory, Non-ECC
(2) 20Gig Maxtor HDDs w/Win98 & all updates loaded

Video:
Nvida GeForce2 MX 100/200 32 Meg (PCI)


52X Multi-Read CD-Rom Drive
3.5” Floppy

[James_F]

I'd say less easily less than $300. Look what you can buy with $600 from Dell with a 2 year warrenty and a 19" monitor.

http://www.dell.com/us/en/dhs/offers/specials_3x_special61.htm

I'm sure HP, Gateway, Sony, IBM all have similar deals.

The case is really cool, but can you take advantage of all those PCI slots and drive bays?

[Chris Blount]

You should be able to get around $250 or $300. The Motherboard and chip are pretty much the best part of the system but it really needs a newer hard drive and better video card to perform to it's fullest.

[CoriBright]

I would say about $200. Hard drives are a bit on the small side for today's apps. No burner, No DVD..... and Windows98. Sounds like it would run XP quite nicely though.

[John Corn]

After talking with him again, it seems he wants $300.00 for it.:confused:

I'll offer him $250.00 and go from there.

[gcutler]

In January I tried too sell a Dell Dimension 4100 (P3/1GHz, 512MB Ram, DVD-ROM, 24x CD-RW, Network Card, Modem, 20GB HD, 17" Sony trinitron monitor, WinME, MS Works 2002, original boxes and SW, etc) Tried $400, Tried $300, maybe because of christmas but had no takers above $200.

I decided to string a RJ-45 cable upstairs and just installed it in the bedroom.

[George_F]

$250 - $300 sounds reasonable to me, I certainly wouldn't want to pay much more than that.

[Richard King]

Wow these things depriciate fast. Ah, technology. I am typing this message on a 733Mhz Celeron and it still works fine for my applications. In my office I am using the old 500Mhz Dell that came with my Starband beta system. I just ripped apart an old (very old) 486 machine (probably about 33Mhz or so) that had just been taking up space here unused for years. I wonder what the processor would bring on the open market. :D I ended up just throwing away most of the machine. I still have my original PC around here somewhere, a 4.9Mhz(?) 186 (yes, a 186) in a flip top desk top case. I had to replace my 20Meg hard drive in this thing once at a cost of $695.

[Bogy]

Rking, I'm typing this on my P200MMX. My wife uses another P200MMX, my son has a P100 and my laptop is a P133. I've got my mom set up on a 486DX66 for email. After my wife graduates with her master's in May I'll start the upgrade process. :D

[Chris Blount]

Originally posted by Rking401
Ah, technology. I am typing this message on a 733Mhz Celeron and it still works fine for my applications. I know what you mean. Up until about 3 weeks ago I was using a 750MHZ AMD Athelon. Most regular applications ran nice and fast until I started doing video. I soon got tired of the machine taking 8 hours to encode 1 hour of DVD quality video. I was also having some minor problems capturing analog video. Lots of skipped frames.

So now I'm using an AMD 2100 XP. Works much better and those 8 hour encoding sessions are down to about 3 hours. Very nice!

[Richard King]

Eventually I am going to have to upgrade since I would like to get into the video thing one of these days. I have about 4 hours of raw newsfeeds off my old C/Ku dish of a hurricane that went through here the summer before I moved here, but after I had bought property here. It would be handy to turn this into a DVD.

[firephoto]

I'd say $200 on that system would be a good price, but if you can get it for $250 it's not that bad of a deal.

My main computer at home was a 200mmx until last july when I put together this Athlon 1800/Abit. Worked fine because all I used it for was surfing the net and listening to music. My video editing that I am getting into now is almost making me need something faster or else something just to let the encoding do it's thing on constantly. :)

I still have a couple of old Zenith Data Systems laptops around here somewhere. 8086's with 720k floppy and I think they have 5mb hard drives. :lol: They worked the last time I tried them, but I think they will only work with DOS 3 or lower (maybe 2?). Hard drives aren't the most reliable things either.

Apple 1 computer is going up for auction again here.
http://www.vintage.org/special/apple-1/
High bid was $12,000 last time, but the reserve was $16,000. Saw it on TechTv the other night.
Maybe if I hold out my ZDS's will be worth something someday. ;)