How much is my current PC still worth?

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Since my new system is going to cost a lot of money, I want to ease the pain somewhat by selling my current PC.

How much would this system still fetch second-hand?

Case: unknown (Targa brand), roomy, heavy (iron), white with a blue cover at the front with holes in it (air holes?), quite a big fan at the back.

Processor: Intel PIV 2.4Ghz with hyperthreading
Motherboard: Intel® Desktop Board D865PERL (AC’97 audio codec, on-board Lan)

Samsung DVD-ROM drive
Asus CD-RW drive

Ram: 1GB DDR (not sure, but I think it’s Corsair)
Hard disc: Maxtor 80GB ATA
Graphics card: Geforce MX440 64MB

Power Supply: 350 Watt (Brand: Intel)

1"44 Floppy disc drive

Safeway optical wheel mouse (grey&blue)
Chicony Internet keyboard (white)
Speakers: 2 small boxes, stereo, Philips brand

Gericom 19" screen (max resolution 2000-something (in the low 2000 x 1000-something , well that’s the max resolution I can give it in Windows XP). Big, heavy thing. White.

Defects: 2 USB ports in front and audio jacks don’t function anymore since motherboard, CPU and PSU switch. It’s heavy.

Good to know: hardware fully supported by modern Linux distributions

Operating System: SuSe 9.3 Professional

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Somewhere between $400-500, and probably closer to $400 is my guess for the whole thing.

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I think between £200-£300.

The reason is -
The graphics, the sound, the HDD and the PSU.

I just saw a P4 2Ghz Compaq system on eBay for £350.
It had 160GB HDD, 256MB graphics and a dedicated sound card.

Anyone looking to upgrade your machine would not want to spend so much money buying new parts (especialy if it a an old case) and someone who just wants a basic machine (which is what this is) would not want to spen too much money on…a basic machine…

4

I’d give it 350 euros. Sorry I’m not sure what exact currency they use in Belgium but it’s a start.

5

Okay, thanks! I’m thinking about offering it on Ebay starting at €100 ($120), but without the screen.

I’d like to get double for that really, but between the hassle of shipping or coming to collect it, I doubt there would be much bids if I let it start at €200 ($240)

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Cool man, let us know how it goes:good:

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I had a second thought: maybe I could convert it into a machine for storing and synching digital music to the other PC’s within our wireless network. Anyone got any experience with this?

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Well, if you put the music on it, in a shared folder of course, and then make a playlist on the client computer of the songs on the server you would have it. Thats the easiest way I can think of.