Good deal?

One of my Dad's friend is currently trying to sell his sons computer seeing that he is going off to college and wont see any use with a desktop. If he cant sell it to people he knows, its most likely going to go on ebay. I might be interested. He's asking around 730-750 for the whole thing. Here is the specs:

Antec full tower case
Thermaltake TR2 430w Powersupply
MSI K8T Neo-F152R motherboard
AMD 3400+ Overclocked to 2.8 on air
2x1GB of OCZ Platinum PC3200 ram
2x200GB Seagate Harddrives Raid0
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS with remote
LG DVD-RW Drive
Floppy Drive
Viewsonic VX924 19 " LCD monitor 2ms response time
Saitek Illumintated keyboard
Razer Copperhead mouse
Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Joystick
Windows XP pro

Now here is the unfortunate part, it comes with a XFX 6800XT PCI-e

I would most likely use this computer for server applications, some small video editing, and most likely use it for LAN events seeing that my other desktop is too valuable and most likely heavier.

Now here are my concerns:

1. Is this computer worth between 700-750? Some parts have been rarely used( I know ram for a fact is less than a couple of weeks old, and the 2nd harddrive was added about 2 months ago). I can maybe negotiate some sort of deal if possible.

2. Would this video card be suitable for now? Or should I change it soon?

3. Is the current powersupply able to handle all this hardware, it might be run 24/7 due to that I might host Servers in some games with this.

Thanks.

too late dufus... the forum puts latest replies on top. you already did that with ur own reply.

anyways... that LCD is nice and worth about $250 new. but the rest of that stuff... i dunno. the keyboard, mouse, and sound card are top of the line... but the CPU & mobo is... well... old.

Offer him $600 for it and replace the mobo/CPU.

Yeah buy it off him for $600 and sell it yourself on ebay you get well over $600 if you sold the monitor ram new hard drive etc on ebay youd even probally find fool to buy a 6800xt for $70 or more on ebay

Yup, the cpu is just old.

Unless some noob comes in and says the CPU is a "Major bottleneck for the X1900XT".

Not sure I agree with that, PSU is quite low power for today's hardware, CPU is single core, HD space is cheap as chips these days, sound card is old, RAM is DDR not DDR 2, XP is good but vista is on the horizon. But I guess you do get a floppy drive.

-What's wrong with that PSU? Looks like a good name brand with a good 12v rail to me. better than a generic 550w to be sure.

- A single core Athlon 64 will game as fast as a dual core A64 at the same speed and cache, unless the game is optimized for dual cores... which almost none are.

- How cheap is a 400 GB raid setup nowadays? I'm guessing at least $150.

- Quality OCZ Platinum DDR is MUCH better than generic DDR2 because good DDR has much better latencies

- XP will be around for a long time, and you can upgrade from it for cheaper than buying Vista

- I didn't even mention the 19" monitor...


Honestly, if you can find a better system for $600, please point it out...
but my money's on you not being able to do that.

Well I did want to use it at LAN events, but that wont be until the spring. I have contacted the buyer, planning to make the exchange this weekend. Thanks guys

Hmm, you wouldn't happen to live in South Range, Wisconsin.

And the computer in question wouldn't happen to be yellow?

And your buddy wouldn't happen to have a somewhat nice looking black/silver rectangular area rug somewhere in his house, would he?

Otherwise this guy is selling the exact same thing.

Relax fella, I said it's "ok" in my first post but IMO not worth it I mean we've got quad core CPU's out now and games are starting to be optimised for dual core plus multiple cores don't just benefit games. I wouldn't spend that on the system, for a bit more you can get a much better system which will last you a few upgrades.

lol. Well I don't know how you measure excitement but It's not quite there for me.

Obviously you don't think it's worth it, I'm just curious if you can justify that for us with a better alternative for a similar price... if you can't that's OK, I just disagree that it can be done.

Well by god! That is the exact same thing! Only difference is I believe that one has the faceplate for the sound card, and its yellow. The one I am looking at is Silver/Gray. Oh also, I got my dad's friend to charge me 650 instead. I guess he was in dire need to sell it. 8O 8O 8O that's pretty efin scary.

Well by god! That is the exact same thing! Only difference is I believe that one has the faceplate for the sound card, and its yellow. The one I am looking at is Silver/Gray. Oh also, I got my dad's friend to charge me 650 instead. I guess he was in dire need to sell it. 8O 8O 8O that's pretty efin scary.
Too scary to imagine. 8O 8O 8O

WTF is the son thinking? Not use a desktop at college? HWAT?

Who doesn't game while in college? Classes don't take up that much time. Even having a gf, working out, and partying will leave time to play some games. Wanna destress before a test? An hour or two of any fine game will do the trick!