Price of PIII 800, 128MB RAM, 28GB HDD?

[lukas333]

What do you think is price of this PC? I need at least five (or more) opinions, thank you in advance. My sister bought it for $600

Pentium III 800
128MB RAM
28GB HDD
nVidia TNT2 M64
DVD-ROM 12x
Sound Blaster 128
15" CRT Monitor

 

[jaguarskx]

Too obsolete to be of any real value to anyone, unless it's going to someone's grandma (that's a stretch too).

Sorry, but it's not worth anything since it's can't even run Windows XP. Not enough RAM.

 

[aylafan]

sorry to say. your sister got ripped off. it all looks like junk somebody wanted to get rid of. i wouldn't even pay 50 dollars for all that stuff because it has no significant value. that stuff is about 5-7 years old..

for 600 dollars. she could have gotten a new laptop or new computer.

 

[Bloated]

I'd love to have it for a windows 98 gaming system for games incompatible with WinXP, I have several 64mb sticks of Sdram I could top it up with even.

but I suspect you might not have an AGP slot which is a genuine joykill.....

btw Windows XP will run on the system wihtout issue if you can get ahold of 256mb more Sdram and shut off all useless WinXP gfx options along with as many services as possible, although I can't guarantee the motherboard will be Service pack 2 compatible.

as for value.....if the system works it's worth about $30 - $50 depending on shipping costs which are a genuine concern given the outdated nature of the system.... to be honest I suspect you knew this ahead of time or your sister bought this computer several years ago and now wants to get what she paid for it which will never happen even with the most idiotic of buyers.

 

[chocobocorey]

What do you think is price of this PC? I need at least five (or more) opinions, thank you in advance. My sister bought it for $600

Pentium III 800
128MB RAM
28GB HDD
nVidia TNT2 M64
DVD-ROM 12x
Sound Blaster 128
15" CRT Monitor

i hope you mean she bought it for that price a few years ago. otherwise... wow.

the processor may be worth a little bit, i think the price of p3's have risen a bit on ebay. maybe you could get $20-40 for the CPU. obviously the RAM and HDD are worthless, as is the graphics card, sound card, and monitor. the DVD drive maybe $5.

 

[chocobocorey]

Too obsolete to be of any real value to anyone, unless it's going to someone's grandma (that's a stretch too).

Sorry, but it's not worth anything since it's can't even run Windows XP. Not enough RAM.

thats not true. "128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features)" from microsoft's own website. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/upgrading/sysreqs.mspx

i dunno where this whole talk of huge memory requirements came from in the past couple years for XP. sure 64 is not gonna run well, but it will still run. and ive had a machine runnin with 128 and it ran nicely, even played halo fine.

now vista on the other hand...

 

[The_Hanz]

What do you think is price of this PC? I need at least five (or more) opinions, thank you in advance. My sister bought it for $600

Pentium III 800
128MB RAM
28GB HDD
nVidia TNT2 M64
DVD-ROM 12x
Sound Blaster 128
15" CRT Monitor

Show this to your sister.....

 

[duthoy]

whow, total rippoff


last week i've sold this for 120 euro

pentium3 866Mhz
40GB HD
256 Ram
onboard lan/VGA/sound
CD-rom
DVD-rom
17" Dell screen (CRT)
mouse
keyboard


with this money i've bought myself this

a dell poweredge 2400 server
2 x pentium3 600Mhz
6x9GB Scsi 10.000 RPM
768 RAM

so, 600$ for that machine?
who's the bastard that sold her this computer? KILL HIM!!

please don't kill him, but you can send him some unknown viruses to
take over his new computer, probably bought with the money he got from your sister, and overclock the hell out of it, completely killing the CPU and RAM. maybe also the gfx-card. :twisted:

 

[ZozZoz]

Guys, you're certainly quick at jumping to conclusions. He didn't say his sister bought it yesterday, nor did he mention any specific point in time for that matter. If it's the original purchase price from back in the day - I guess it was fine.

I ran xp on a PII-366 with 128 mb of ram. It worked, albeit with some extra swapping.

 

[bga]

What do you think is price of this PC? I need at least five (or more) opinions, thank you in advance. My sister bought it for $600
Pentium III 800
128MB RAM
28GB HDD
nVidia TNT2 M64
DVD-ROM 12x
Sound Blaster 128
15" CRT Monitor

Today it's worth $50 - if you can find a buyer.

 

[apt403]

Yeah, its worth about $50.

 

[Heyyou27]

What do you think is price of this PC? I need at least five (or more) opinions, thank you in advance. My sister bought it for $600

Pentium III 800
128MB RAM
28GB HDD
nVidia TNT2 M64
DVD-ROM 12x
Sound Blaster 128
15" CRT Monitor

That better have not been recently.

 

[dixon_pete]

For systems like that with slightly slower CPUs companies actually pay recycling companies to take them away. If you ask a small store retailer to sell you one he might charge you $50.

Trucks actually come by those stores to picks up used PCs like yours by the truckload.

 

[jitpublisher]

That's one like a lot of people would donate to a school. It would be good for running Windows 98, and office applications, web browsing, email.

My parents still have an old Gateway with a 500Mhz pentium, 256 Ram (they upgraded that from 64) and a 20 gig hard drive. They use it everyday, for exactly those things. When I am there and I have to use it, I CAN"T STAND IT!!!! But they seem to have no problem, and just plug away on it. I keep on telling them to get something new and faster and they just stare at me and say "now that would just be just plain stupid to spend money on something if what we have works fine"

But what is it worth if they wanted to sell it? Nothing, absolutely nothing.
Same for the PC your sister has, it's not worth anything $$$ wise.

 

[AdamBomb42]

Your sister got robbed!

 

[lukas333]

Thank you very much for all posts, I made this thread to convince my sister, because "friend" sold it to her and she didnt believe me. I told her that it is worth $150. $50 is little bit exagerated dont you think?

 

[enewmen]

With a bit more RAM and windows 2000 the OPs system would make a decent system for Folding@Home.

Yes. With 512 megs RAM, you can have a very useable Win XP system that can run Office and I.E. well.
Make sure there is a CD-ROM also. Lastly, don't try to play any game s with higher requirements than cardgame or mindsweeper.

Its "POSSIBLE" to run Win XP with only 128megs. But with small RAM, there will be lots of page file swapping. It will run DOG SLOW. Lots of RAM will greatly reduce the swapping and speed things up a lot.

 

[jitpublisher]

Nope, I would not pay over $50 for it, and I certainly would NOT have pawned it off on a friend for any money at all. If I was a true friend, I'd have just given it to her.
With friends like that, who needs enemies? eh? 8O

 

[jitpublisher]

Have your sister look here.......http://www.emachines.com/products/
See what you could have gotten for $600

 

[bkiserx7]

but the real question we all want to know is: When exactly did she buy it?

 

[bga]

Thank you very much for all posts, I made this thread to convince my sister, because "friend" sold it to her and she didnt believe me. I told her that it is worth $150. $50 is little bit exagerated dont you think?

She should demand her money back - and/or cancel that friendship. The machine is worth MAXIMUM $50, and $150 is way to much. Here were I live, there is a shop selling used PC's (a shop -opposed to a "friend"- which pays rent, salary and 25% sales tax). A machine like yours, but with 256MB RAM goes for $50. If you want 17" CRT, you pay $10 more. You pay $70 for a Pentium 4, 1.8GHz, 512MB RAM and a 80GB harddisk, and $100 for the same machine with a 19" CRT.
So even $150 is way to much, and even contemplating $600 is a crime.

 

[MayDay94]

$50 does seems reasonable. Any more would be insane since it will be painfully slow even with xp and 256mb ram. you can build/buy a MUCH faster pc for $600, especially if you look for sales/rebates at compusa or even dell. that price is crazy. my first gut reaction was $25 but $50 seems ok.

 

[axilon]

Xp will crash in hours on 128 megs. My old highschool put XP on some comps with 128 megs... Within hours it would just lock up or slow down to complete unresponsiveness.. at least it the kernel is no longer blown out the ram

 

[runswindows95]

Kick that friend's @$$ and get the money back. I give away machines like that for free. If anything, $50 is all that machine is worth.

 

[theaxemaster]

I had a system like that but with 512 ram, a better GFX card but no DVD drive or monitor. I gave it to someone I didn't really even know that well...$50-100 is reasonable, since its complete. No more than that.