Is this a good deal?

Jet
Jet Posts: 1,642 Forumite
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I need a new pc and a colleague of mine is offering me his pc for £300 as he is about to move abroad.

Below is the spec, can someone please confirm that this is a good price as I'm not that "up" on pc's.

I will be using the pc for photo's email, internet, music, some gaming, sage accounts and a few office documents.

Hardware:
Dual Pentium IV 2.8 GHz processors
ASUS motherboard with onboard audio, networking, USB and Firewire ports
1 GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro FX 2000 video card
SoundBlaster Live! audio card
Front-side USB and FireWire jacks.
Extra ventilation fan on top
clear acrylic panel in one side.

Internal CD/DVD drive
External CD/DVD read/write drive
2 hard drives with three partitions:
120GB
150GB
25GB
One remaining slot for another drive

Software:
Windows XP with latest updates
Microsoft Office 2003:
Outlook
Word
Access
PowerPoint
Excel
Publisher
IrfanView (image viewer)
ThumbsPlus (advanced thumbnailer/image manipulation)
FireFox with updates and add-ons
OpenOffice (open source and free replacement for MS Office)
Diskeeper (defrag program)
Avast anti-virus
Nero Burning ROM (CD/DVD burning software)
WinAmp Pro 5.0
VideoLAN (media player)
QuickTime Pro 6.0
WinRAR (compressor/decompressor better than WinZip)
CuteFTP Pro 7 (FTP client)

Comments

  • isofa
    isofa Posts: 6,091 Forumite
    Compare it with new prices from somewhere like Dell.

    Make sure the commercial software (Office 2003) comes complete with the CDs and licence.
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