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PC Needed

wishface
wishface Posts: 1,884 Forumite
in I wanna buy it or do it
Anyone know where/how I can get a decent pc. Mine is dying on it's !!!! and it's really old. I'm looking for around 2.5 ghtz p4 or equivalent. Decent graphics. Around at least 50gig HD and 1 gig of RAM (in a pinch i have 512mb on this machine i can swap over, though im not very good at computer DIY at all and don't know anyone who is). This is something I really need right now and if I could swap my silly ps3 for a decent pc i would in a heartbeat. Thanks.
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  • castle96
    castle96 Posts: 3,011 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    take your chequebook or credit card to PC shop and buy one ???????

    or freecycle
  • Aidinho
    Aidinho Posts: 5 Forumite
    wishface wrote: »
    Anyone know where/how I can get a decent pc. Mine is dying on it's !!!! and it's really old. I'm looking for around 2.5 ghtz p4 or equivalent. Decent graphics. Around at least 50gig HD and 1 gig of RAM (in a pinch i have 512mb on this machine i can swap over, though im not very good at computer DIY at all and don't know anyone who is). This is something I really need right now and if I could swap my silly ps3 for a decent pc i would in a heartbeat. Thanks.

    I have a spare PC here mate if your interested in a swap for your PS3?
  • wishface
    wishface Posts: 1,884 Forumite
    depends what is is, what condition it is and where you are.
  • Aidinho
    Aidinho Posts: 5 Forumite
    Hi, the PC is only a few years old in excellent condition.

    specs:
    2ghz Processor
    80GB Hard Drive
    40GB Hard Drive
    Radeon X1650 Graphics card
    DVDRW Drive
    CDRW Drive
    1GB Ram
    Inbuilt Sound
    Inbuilt Broadband
    Neon Temperature Gauge

    If you are interested I could maybe take a few pictures of it for you.

    Thanks,
    James
  • wishface
    wishface Posts: 1,884 Forumite
    sounds interesting, what type fo processor is it and whereabouts are you. If you are not really local then obviously and unfortunately it would be impossible to proceed (i'm not putting a video game console in the hands of the royal mail).
  • wishface
    wishface Posts: 1,884 Forumite
    castle96 wrote: »
    take your chequebook or credit card to PC shop and buy one ???????

    or freecycle
    my credit card or chequebook dont' come close to what the shops are asking for and I lack the knowledge to go DIY.

    Freecycle is great - when they have what you want :D
  • Aidinho
    Aidinho Posts: 5 Forumite
    wishface wrote: »
    sounds interesting, what type fo processor is it and whereabouts are you. If you are not really local then obviously and unfortunately it would be impossible to proceed (i'm not putting a video game console in the hands of the royal mail).

    Its an AMD Athlon XP processor very fast and very quiet, I'm in Glasgow so what we would probably have to do is book a courier from a site like parcel2go.com its about £6.50 to send something with the weight of upto 10 kg and you get free insurance to the value of £200. Ive use them a few times in the past and never had any problems.

    As I said before if you are generally interested I could take a few pics for you its just sitting there anyway in the spare room not getting used as I have another PC which as a waste really as its cracking PC that cost me over £400 a few years ago.

    Thanks.
  • jamesb1239
    jamesb1239 Posts: 648 Forumite
    Aidinho wrote: »
    Its an AMD Athlon XP processor very fast and very quiet, I'm in Glasgow so what we would probably have to do is book a courier from a site like parcel2go.com its about £6.50 to send something with the weight of upto 10 kg and you get free insurance to the value of £200. Ive use them a few times in the past and never had any problems.

    As I said before if you are generally interested I could take a few pics for you its just sitting there anyway in the spare room not getting used as I have another PC which as a waste really as its cracking PC that cost me over £400 a few years ago.

    Thanks.

    Yep and on those specs you will probably struggle to get £50-£100 for it, let alone a PS3. I have given away higher spec computers than that on Freecycle.

    OP check Ebay but set it to distance nearest to you first. They quite often come up on there and go cheaply because nobody wants to pay postage!
  • wishface
    wishface Posts: 1,884 Forumite
    jamesb1239 wrote: »
    Yep and on those specs you will probably struggle to get £50-£100 for it, let alone a PS3. I have given away higher spec computers than that on Freecycle.

    OP check Ebay but set it to distance nearest to you first. They quite often come up on there and go cheaply because nobody wants to pay postage!
    You've been giving stuff like that away free?!?

    My freecycle never comes up with stuff like that! Bloody hell!
  • Aidinho
    Aidinho Posts: 5 Forumite
    jamesb1239 wrote: »
    Yep and on those specs you will probably struggle to get £50-£100 for it, let alone a PS3. I have given away higher spec computers than that on Freecycle.

    OP check Ebay but set it to distance nearest to you first. They quite often come up on there and go cheaply because nobody wants to pay postage!

    really? this system cost me well over £400 back in 2008 plus I had to buy the grraphics card which cost me over 80 quid alone so I dont where you got yours from but you got one helluva bargain or a PC thats on its last legs.
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