Buying Refurbished Desktop PC

Bonking_Mad

Don't have enough money for a brand new desktop, so looking at refurbished desktop's, anyone have an opinion on this one

Desktop is mainly for browsing / youtube etc,. etc., no gaming.

GunJack

http://www.ebuyer.com/407538-zoostorm-desktop-pc-7873-1076

new, and hardly any dearer than your link, just need an OS for it...if you have monitor/mouse/kbd already?

John_Gray

We've bought about five second-hand Optiplex 755s recently for the charity where I work, and the spec is roughly similar to what's offered on Amazon. Note that you will get XP with them, so 2 GB of memory is more than adequate. Check if you're happy with 160 GB of hard disk space (nearer 130-140 in 'ordinary' GB once you've taken off the space used by the XP install, etc). Are you wanting a 17" monitor? Probably not...

C_Mababejive

I bought an ex corporate Dell Optiplex GX 620 off ebay for about £30 and it is great. No need to pay megabucks for a pc.

cootuk

Plenty of refurb Dell about. I've bought a few for friends/family, and, as long as you don't want a good graphics card, then they are ok.
The micro-sff has an external power brick but a combined case/monitor stand. Other case sizes have internal psu.
Easily handle internet, Farmville etc

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anything wrong with the one you're using?

Bonking_Mad

GunJack wrote: »

http://www.ebuyer.com/407538-zoostorm-desktop-pc-7873-1076

new, and hardly any dearer than your link, just need an OS for it...if you have monitor/mouse/kbd already?

Thanks, it's a bit more than I can afford, the one in my link is an all in one, including an OS

cootuk wrote: »

Plenty of refurb Dell about. Easily handle internet, Farmville etc

Do you have any links?

closed wrote: »

anything wrong with the one you're using?

Current one is dead, doesn't boot up at start, local computer shop said, motherboard dead or Hard drive is dead can't remember which

closed

both of those are relatively cheap to replace.

Bonking_Mad

closed wrote: »

both of those are relatively cheap to replace.

Not sure of the overall costs as I'll have to pay the local comp shop to change, I guess the ram could do with upgrading, with that in mind, I was wondering if I could get a refurbished desktop for around £100.00 :eek:

Thanks for the advice

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what happens when it is switched on, what make and model is it, which operating system

Bonking_Mad

closed wrote: »

what happens when it is switched on

Nothing, I can hear it boot for about 2 secs, then nothing, it appears to be dead.

closed wrote: »

what make and model is it

DELL Dimension 3000

closed wrote: »

which operating system

XP