dell dimension c521. whats it worth ?

diggerman123

Hi all , hope you can help.
I have a Dell Dimension c521 that i am going to sell and wondered what price I should be asking for it.
It has flat screen monitor with it and all leads , fittings , original discs etc and I am including a belkin wireless usb with it.
not really techie myself but it has

AMD sempron processor
3400+

1.8Ghz

192 Mb of RAM

it is about 18 months old and is in pristine condition as hardly used.

any ideas of price i should be looking for greatly appreciated

many thanks

diggerman

JasX

diggerman123 wrote: »

AMD sempron processor
3400+

1.8Ghz

192 Mb of RAM

That processor dates from 2005 and is extremly old and slow by today's standards, plus demand for old dated desktops isn't good at the best of times.

On ebay I can 'buy it now' a similar spec machine with 19" monitor for £130 (powerseller/refurbished and 'guranteed'). tbh I think you'd be very lucky to get near that buts it is slightly higher spec than the £30 no screen ones...

I'd put it in the £60-90 range if sold as a complete machine, however you could possibly get a bit more if you break it up and sell off individual components....

diggerman123

thanks jas , was thinking about £100 as a private sale so will go at that or near offer

cheers

Donnie

Did you remove the original 1GB RAM module? Don't think anyone would be too happy with 256MB RAM.

diggerman123

not removed anything from it and it was only bought from dell less than 2 years ago. is something amiss here ? has had a full re install from disc recently ..................

diggerman123

to be honest it is slower than my laptop but not really sluggish.

thanks for the info

£80 it is then .......................

Donnie

Apparently not, it seems that 256 MB RAM was indeed the minimum spec supplied. Wouldn't run very well with such little memory. Maybe you noticed that. Put some more RAM in and you might actually want to keep it.

John_Gray

The original RAM is shown as 512 MB by Crucial, so it seems a bit surprising that you only have 192 MB visible. 64 MB less than 512 MB I wouldn't be surprised at.

As Donnie says, why not just add some more memory - Crucial shows 1 GB at just over £22. Won't make the CPU any faster, but you'll virtually eliminate paging to hard disk!

Donnie

John_Gray wrote: »

The original RAM is shown as 512 MB by Crucial, so it seems a bit surprising that you only have 192 MB visible. 64 MB less than 512 MB I wouldn't be surprised at.

Base configuration is 256 MB. Additionally, it's probably PC2-4200 inside. Don't rely on Crucial. Suprised he says it isn't sluggish with 192MB RAM.

John_Gray

Donnie wrote: »

Base configuration is 256 MB. Additionally, it's probably PC2-4200 inside. Don't rely on Crucial. Suprised he says it isn't sluggish with 192MB RAM.

I can quite believe that it only has 256 MB of RAM, but I've usually found that Crucial are pretty reliable. Anyway, it doesn't matter since the OP seems to want to sell it. No need to suggest the running of CPU-Z, Belarc Advisor, SIW, etc, to find our what's really in there...!

(I also think the "not sluggish" comment must have had an intrusive "not"!)

Iconic

I repaired a c521 recently.

One of the sticks of RAM became faulty and the machine wouldn't even start.

If there are two sticks in the machine make sure they are both seated properly. If they are try taking one out and see if it makes any difference.