Opinion on my PC please.

[derekpara]

A friend built a PC for me some while ago and generally I am quite pleased with it.

The system is : AMD Athlon II x2 250 processor.

3.01 GHz, 1.75 GB of RAM

252 GB Hard drive capacity.

Do you think this is a reasonable set-up ?

I use the PC mainly for word processing, surfing the net, playing music etc. not for gaming.

Cheers.

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[ChuckFickens]

How much did you pay for it?

[ChuckFickens]

It should be capable of doing what you say OK BTW.

[derekpara]

About £250 four years ago. It has a dvd drive, 3 USB ports etc.

Thanks, Chuck.

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[ChuckFickens]

Seems over priced...

I was expecting to see a figure of around £100 max for that... I've given away systems with better specs than that to friends.

[derekpara]

Thanks, Chuck, you've made my day !

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[wildwood]

The figures for the Hard drive and RAM are a bit puzzling but yes, more than adequate for your needs.

[ChuckFickens]

I am basing my opinion on you not getting a monitor with it BTW.

[wildwood]

It was four years ago though. There is also the case, motherboard etc. Often made up from scratch computers end up costing more than custom units.

[MarkRae]

I agree with CF re price. I recondition and resell PCs fairly regularly, and this is typical for a four or five year old machine:

Processor: Intel Pentium dual core E2180 2.0GHz
RAM: 4GB DDR2 (all slots are full)
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 7100
NIC: nVidia nForce
Sound: On-board high definition
Hard disk: 500GB SATA (room for four more SATA drives and 2 IDE drives)
Optical disk: ASUS DVD-RW
Floppy disk: 3.5” 1.44MB
Front panel: 2 x USB 2, Audio (mic & speakers, perfect for headset)
Back panel: PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse, 4 x USB 2, Ethernet port, Audio

£100 + VAT, £20 UK delivery

[derekpara]

Thanks, all.

I don't know the full spec but it was built from new, without monitor, keyboard etc.

Cheers.

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