Reconditioned PC Base Unit, questions I should ask?

Percy1983

How about:
http://www.bigpockets.co.uk/product.php?nav=227&product=SOLV105&title=IBM+Netvista+Desktop+P4+2.66Ghz+-+512Mb+-+40Gb+-+DVD-ROM+-+Win+XP

Have a look at other on there site too there is better/more expensive, I can vouch for the site I have been a customer of with them for years and had many orders. They won't sell you a dodgy license either.

Keyboard+Mouse
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150442

Monitors can be picked up for around £50 for flat panels, or if you look local (ebay + postcode search) pick up a CRT (bulky) monitor from about £5

Hope this helps

1jim

thanks guys, any thoughts on this spec? asking price £40

AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.67Ghz
512 MB Ram
40GB Hard Drive
CD-RWITER Drive
Nvidia Graphics Card with DVi and VGA Outputs
2x Front USB
6x Rear USB
1x Network Card
1x Modem
BROADBAND READY
Windows XP Service Pack 3
AVG Anti Virus Software
All Drivers

spud17

Again, is the OS licence genuine?

chunter

sharkie wrote: »

Are you sure it is good value? I think it is expensive scrap. Our Dells at work which we MUST scrap are 5/6 years old and have this spec. We pay people to remove them, although we have to take out the hard disk first. They do have MS xp licenses on the cases.

Bet the virus checkers and spyware checkers are the free ones.

I just do not see it as great value, especially when you get the below. Ok it is a bit different but I think it is better value. Definitely faster hardware and I think hp stuff has 3 year warranty - could be wrong though

www.digital-fusion.co.uk/Inu_products/INU_ProdDetailsL9.asp?ref=1170J409

All is missing is the os, sound card, mouse, screen and keyboard. A good video card and DVD writer may come handy too, Excluding the screen, they are fairly cheap components.
HP ProLiant ML115 G5 Server, Quad Core Opteron, £161.51 delivered, Digital-Fusion

£161.51 includes vat and P&P

AMD Opteron 1352 Quad Core Processor 2.10 GHz
Standard memory 1 GB (1 x 1 GB) Standard Memory
Memory slots 4 DIMM slots, Memory type PC2-6400 unbuffered DDR2 SDRAM (800MHz)
Internal drives 1 x 160 GB SATA Non Hot Plug 3.5" Drive
HP Embedded 4 Port SATA Controller with Embedded RAID (0,1,5)
Optical drives DVD-ROM
Chassis type Micro ATX Tower (4U)
Chipset nVidia NFP3400
Network interface Embedded NC105i PCI -Express Gigabit Server Adapter
Expansion slots Expansion Slots: Slot 1: PCI 32-bit/33MHz PCI at 3.3V slot; Slot 2: PCI-Express x1 connector with x1 link; Slot 3: PCI-Express x8 connector with x8 link; Slot 4: PCI-Express x16 connector with x16 link
Power supply type 365 Watts

For 85 quid and if it had an XP COA, it would have been good value as a plug'n'play. If the OP had wanted something at 200 quid odd, (plus time) I'd send him/her somewhere else. Horses for courses.

Come on Ruby. !!

chunter

1jim wrote: »

thanks guys, any thoughts on this spec? asking price £40

AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.67Ghz
512 MB Ram
40GB Hard Drive
CD-RWITER Drive
Nvidia Graphics Card with DVi and VGA Outputs
2x Front USB
6x Rear USB
1x Network Card
1x Modem
BROADBAND READY
Windows XP Service Pack 3
AVG Anti Virus Software
All Drivers

You may need a dvd player.
You may also need more memory, I find XP SP3 needs a gig to work decently.
but hey, at 40 quid, you can afford a few extras.
Broadband ready = network card. Nothing else.

Percy1983

Certainly nothing special, but the specs and price line up, as mentioned its just if the OS is legit mainly.

spud17

It's actually very similar to mine, except I have Athlon XP2400 and 768mbRAM and 2x80gb HDs.

The only new bits being the XP Home and one of the HDs.

The rest, literally "rescued" from a skip (as was the monitor) or from other peoples cast offs.

Keep it "lean and mean" i.e. don't fill it with carp, and it will be faster than some of the modern stuff, e.g. Vista/1gb RAM