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Thread ID: 89187	2008-04-23 09:15:00	Value of this PC	jwil1 (65)	PC World Chat

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661938	2008-04-23 13:20:00	hmm.I thought it was a pentium 4.lol Oh well.... now I will likely to pay $50	Ninjabear (2948)
661939	2008-04-23 13:26:00	You will have a hard time selling it with a 15" monitor. Do you have an under $50 section in the classifieds section of your local newspaper? If you place an ad saying you want a free 17" monitor then you might just get one & it will make the computer a lot easier to sell (as long as it doesn't need shipped anywhere - then you are better off just ditching the monitor) You still wouldn't get more than $200 for it though. My pain computer is still a P3 600Mhz, 320MB, 20GB, DVD Reader on Win2k, Office 2k. A laptop, 12 inch screen :D Just higher priorities at the moment. Plus I want to wait for 64bit to be better and more motherboards that support 16GB of RAM. It does everything for clerical to internet and email. 2 months back I even processed RAW images on the computer. The laptop screen is even calibrated with a Colorvision Spyder for color accuracy for photographic work ;)	Nomad (952)
661940	2008-04-23 21:50:00	How much would this PC would get on TradeMe or otherwise? Pentium III 1GHz 512MB RAM 20GB Hard Disk Windows 2000 Pro Office 2000 Pro DVD Reader CD Writer 15" CRT monitor PS/2 Keyboard/mouse You need to specify what brand all the parts are. ECS motherboard? Gigabyte motherboard? HDD? DVD? Etc etc I don't even look at stuff with unspecified mystery parts. Also has Office and WIndows got the COA with it? If not its not legal.	pctek (84)
661941	2008-04-23 22:05:00	Thanks for feedback guys. You need to specify what brand all the parts are. ECS motherboard? Gigabyte motherboard? HDD? DVD? Etc etc I don't even look at stuff with unspecified mystery parts. Also has Office and WIndows got the COA with it? If not its not legal. Gigabyte motherboard Maxtor or Seagate HD (can't remember) Samsung DVD drive DSE CD-RW Drive IBM monitor Not sure about RAM. Yes there are COAs with Windows and office.	jwil1 (65)
661942	2008-04-23 23:37:00	Hmm. I had one just like this until fairly recently (except I had a 17" CRT). Rebuilt it, dropped in a P4 motherboard, and gave it to my mother to replace her PII machine... Didn't even consider putting it on TradeMe.	johcar (6283)
661943	2008-04-24 01:04:00	Thanks for feedback guys. Gigabyte motherboard Maxtor or Seagate HD (can't remember) Samsung DVD drive DSE CD-RW Drive IBM monitor Not sure about RAM. Yes there are COAs with Windows and office. Good MB. HDD brand matters - take a look before you advertise it. COAs good too. Still not worth that much due to age but worth selling for someones internet box.	pctek (84)
661944	2008-04-24 01:52:00	Maybe nomad will buy it to replace his laptop, It would spank it....LOL	SolMiester (139)
661945	2008-04-24 04:04:00	Pentium III 1GHz 512MB RAM 20GB Hard Disk Windows 2000 Pro Office 2000 Pro DVD Reader CD Writer 15" CRT monitor PS/2 Keyboard/mouse Is a near give away computer imho Quick squiz on Trademe for "similar systems", $10 and 5$ system no monitors, no takers with minutes to go. Yours is a tad better as its got a monitor and legal O/S but maybe 50$.	Battleneter2 (9361)
661946	2008-04-24 05:30:00	Maybe nomad will buy it to replace his laptop, It would spank it....LOL Hey during those days (8yrs ago) it was $4,500 new. I bought it 1yr 2nd hand for $2,500 with a free docking station since it doesn't have a CD drive or floppy drive. Which was also provided for free. I could remember, the mini PCI card was $500 new, so I bought a used on eBay. I bought a used DVD ROM drive for $100, cos that was like $300 new or something ... It does what I want .. I have priorities elsewhere like savings, and travelling. I Have a another cheap household, cost me $500 new - using the old monitor, keyboard and mouse, AMD Sempron 2500+ 512MB, 80GB Seagate yeah .., Gigabyte motherboard yeah .., LG DVDRW yeah .., Kingston RAM yeah :punk And also a Linksys wireless lan card :D Stable as ... I don't play games. I might get a new computer in a year or two but there is a difference between practical and ideal. Ideally I would want quad core, 8GB, 4 HDD in 2x RAID 0 and a 5th HDD as external, its probably not worth it. Practically for a individual 1x internal HDD is probably ok. For this thread, seriously I would just continue using it as a computer in the spare room for guest? Or just donate it. If you doing that I would just take the Photoshop out for your own use. It might be possible to upgrade Photoshop 7.0 to CS version? Then it supports digital RAW files. If you into that. If you got a latest camera that requires CS3, you can convert the files to DNG and it opens fine in CS. You could well get some real Photoshop upgrade software v cheap if you look at the used market. MS Office, you can take it for your own use, there is nothing wrong with Office 2000. I think at work 2006 and also maybe 2007 there were still using it, my last job only got XP windows end of last year, they were using Windows 2000 before that (on Dell Intel P4's with 1GB RAM I think via a Novell Network). 17" LCDs. I still have a AMD 200Mhz computer, I redid that a 2 months or so ago. 64MB, 1.2GB Maxtor, Gigabyte Intel chipset motherboad, Diamond Steah video, 3Com network card 10BT, no floppy, LG/Creative Labs 4x CDROM reader unbreakable, Creative Labs Soundblaster 16 PnP. Works fine with windows 95. Just cannot use the internet v well, because web browser is outdated which I uninstalled but then these days the web browsers can hog up 40MB+ memory easily ... Had MS Office in it before and it was quite responsive. We thought of dumping to the recyclers that thing that happens each yr, its going so great I hesitated. I plugged in the Linksys router and I was surfing webpages :thumbs: The case and PSU was actually from my 386 from 1992 :banana - the motherboard supports AT and ATX. With digital SLR cameras now I just buy used, sometihng like a $5,000 camera USD can now be bought for $500USD, I found judges don't care much about the technical qualities b/c they all are that good anyway, and people are only submitting A4 or A3 sizes, even a 4MP camera is fine for that. In 2008, with a 2004 camera, non-pro lens I got one of my image through which won the national cup for our club with 5 others. Well the image was taken in 2005 or 2006 :D	Nomad (952)
661947	2008-04-24 05:47:00	Good MB. HDD brand matters - take a look before you advertise it. COAs good too. Still not worth that much due to age but worth selling for someones internet box.Realistically, how many TM buyers would even know what brands are good or not? Most Joe Blogg buyers only care that it works and runs well.	Jen (38)
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