Hi all,
I'm looking to sell the following PC's i reciently aquired and was hoping somebody would be able to give me a rough idea on their value (each).

All work fine, although none appear to have genuine XP installed, and i didn't get any discs with it, so for obvious legal and security reasons, i will wipe the hard drive.

All come with keyboard & mouse (wired), 250-350w PSU & 17" CRT monitor, and were PAT tested in March 09.

(If you want the full system report, PM me and i'll email you the html SIW report file)

PC 1

Manufacturer MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
Product Name KM400-8235
Motherboard Manufacturer MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
Model MS-6734
CPU Name AMD Duron
CPU Code Name Applebred
Platform Name Socket A (462)
Memory 512 + 256 MBytes (DDR PC3200)
Disk drives Maxtor 6E040L0 (IDE) 39197 (MB)
DVD/CD-ROM drives 56X CD-ROM (IDE) + CD-RW CDR-7S52 (IDE)


PC 2

Motherboard Manufacturer eSys
Model P4M800/478
CPU Intel Celeron CPU 2.26GHz
Cpu Socket Socket 478 mPGA
System Slots 3 PCI, 1 AGP
Memory 256 + 512 MBytes DDR (PC3200)
Disk drives Maxtor 6K040L0 (IDE)
DVD/CD-ROM drives BENQ CD-ROM 656M (IDE)


PC 3

Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
Product Name HP Compaq dx2250 Microtower
Motherboard Manufacturer MSI
Model 0A7C
CPU Name AMD Athlon 64 3800+
CPU Code Name Orleans
Platform Name Socket AM2 (940)
System Slots 2 PCI
Memory 1024 MBytes DDR2 (PC2-5300)
Storage Seagate ST3160815AS 160.0 GB
DVD LG Electronics HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDRH10N (Serial ATA)


PC 4

Motherboard Model SiS-741
CPU Name AMD Sempron
CPU Code Name Thoroughbred
Platform Name Socket A (462)
System Slots 4 PCI, 1 AGP
Memory 256 + 512 MBytes DDR (PC3200)
Storage Maxtor 6Y080L0 81.9 GB (Parallel ATA)
DVD TSSTcorp DVD-ROM SH-D162C (Parallel ATA)
CD OPTORITE CD-RW CW5207 (Parallel ATA)

Undecided on whether to sell 'as is' or if it's worth replacing PSU's and upping the RAM to between 1 or 2 GB (bearing in mind DDR ram will push the price up due to it's price)
Any idea's advice welcomed:thumbsup:

1 £20
2 £20
3 £60
4 £40

i'd say 1 is £30, but the rest i'd agree with...

I recently sold one similar spec to your PC3 for £62 so good estimate there :)

you might be better off, splitting them up and seeing what you can get for individual parts on ebay or somewhere else. obviousley research first, but some older components, cpu's especially can fetch quite a bit.

for instance the CPU, AMD Athlon 64 3800+ can be found on ebay with a buy it now price of around £40-65, whether anyone buys it is another matter. but that is near the price of the whole system.
also 512MB DDR ram can fetch a tenner easily.

also you have to factor in the fact that there arent that many people out there who would buy a pc of that age or spec as its way behind the times. especially when were moving onto 8 core cpu's at the end of the year, and fast ram

the 3800+'s on ebay going for £40 will be the X2's.

A single core £3800+ is worth a max of £5.

I recently took a PC like this to the skip, but the case was a mess and it was a self build. A tidy OEM complete one at this spec level with OS recovery disks is still worth something.

I don't think they are worth the time to split, apart from hard drives, maybe.

1 £20
2 £20
3 £60
4 £40

agreed . 50 / 60 max . pc 3 definately looks the best out of the rest. rest i didnt even bother looking at as they were that old = worth nothing .

Just had a look on ebay, and HP DX2250 Business Desktop PC AMD 64 X2 5000/2GB/160GB currently on Buy It Now for £249.99. (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HP-DX2250-Business-Desktop-PC-AMD-64-X2-5000-2GB-160GB_W0QQitemZ120458381235QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_C omputing_DesktopPCs?hash=item1c0be107b3&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14)
The only difference between this and PC 3 is the CPU and the extra 1GB of RAM.
A friend is buying it (17" monitor included) for surfing t'interweb and basic accounts, so no gaming.
Replacing the DVD-ROM with a DVD-RW drive, and the original RAM with 2GB of OCZ goodness, and if a bigger CPU is wanted, AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ 2.9GHz Socket AM2 CPU's are only £50, so still works out quite a bit cheaper than the ebay one