Is this Computer worth $300??????

The Case, O/S, Motherboard and Soundcard are all brand new.

I really think I could get $300 for the whole setup....

Here are the Specs

1) Black Mid Tower Case
2) Ultra X-Connect 500watt Modular PS
3) ECS Elitegroup Mainboard NFORCE3-A (V1.0A)
4) AMD Athlon 64 3000+ w/heatsink & Fan
5) 2x 512mb Corsair XMS PC3200 DDR 400Mhz
6) XFX 6600GT 128mb GDDR3
7) Soundblaster Audigy Plantinum
8) Maxtor Diamondmax 9 Ultra/133 7200rpm 80GB Harddrive
9) Lite-On DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive
10) Lite-On DVD-RW w/lightsribe Drive
11) 1.44mb Floppy Drive
12) Thermaltake 80mm Front Exhaust Fan

-has dual dvi out
-has s-video out
-has 4usb rear/2usb front

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition w/SP2
Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Most Manuals and Driver CD's






LOL, anyone interested in buying it?

$50 for the cables alone
Looks nice at least.

LOL.... Home w/sp2 is still better then Vista....



curious whats wrong with the power supply. Its modular and 500watt... Maybe Ultra isn't the best quality but offers a better warranty then my Corsair 620HX

^Exactly.

The Items said are +, not negative.

No it is not worth $300.

For not much more than $300 I can buy a similar new computer from any big box store. Why would I risk $300 buying the computer from you?

Sell the parts off individually, you will get more bucks for your effort.

I think you could get 300.00 for it. If you have a someone that is not necessarily into gaming it would make a good computer for a home office. I sold 2 similar systems last year one with a Socket 939 3000+ and one with a Socket 754 3000+ for 350.00 and 300.00. It worth whatever someone will pay. Your best bet is to find someone local, the cost of shipping would put a dent in your profit.

thats basically all you can do is sucker people into paying 300 for it. The motherboard would not be worth much and with the used parts really drive the price down. That would just be a internet and e-mail computer today and i can go on places like tigerdirect and get a system for $250.00 canadian or less that can do that.

My advice:

Keep what you can for you new built, and sell the other parts on ebay.

Socket 939 mobo and cpu still sells good on ebay if you sell them
separatly.

Hmm.... the brand new ECS mobo is a socket 754. If it was a 939 that would rock... I could drop in a much much higher CPU. Prolly would keep it then.

My new build is right below this sentence. No parts are gonna help my friend.

Thanks everyone for helping. I love these fuggen forums. I will prolly drop the price to $265. That should be better as I don't wanna rip a non-geek off LOLOL.

I would definitely keep everything but the MB/CPU, and Vid card. Those old Maxtor drives are only slightly slower than the newest ones. If you find the right buyer, you may get $50 for the MB/CPU, and $40ish for the vid card. Your local Craigs List would be a good option.

You could actually use the ram in a new Socket 775 "transition" board such as the Asrock. Couple that with a E2160, OC it, and a new vid card, and you would be back in business. Would not break any 3D mark records, but would be a good boost.

You would surely come out slightly better than selling the old rig and building all new.

home is just a lesser of pro in the networking area

I would say that $250.00 would be reasonable. You could always donate it and get a tax write off. Give it to a friend as a gift. I have used extra computer components to build a friend a computer before, free of charge. Set it up as a gaming server and invite some friends over for a LAN party.

$250-$300 would sound somewhat reasonable.

The problem is that Dell is killing the value of older computers.
The offered is now expired, but this was running for a few days earlier this week......
(Note: No dedicated Video Card, but you could sell the monitor and buy a cheap card.)

Dell Small Business has Vostro 200 Slim Tower with Intel Core 2 E4500 Processor and 20" LCD for $359 with Free Shipping. Thanks toade.

Specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo Proc E4500 (2.20GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800FSB)
Genuine Windows XP Home Edition or Vista Home Basic
Dell 20 inch Widescreen E207WFP Analog Flat Panel Display (includes DVI)
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz - 2DIMMs
Single Drive: 16X (DVD+/-RW) Burner Drive
250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100
Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
1 Year Basic Limited Warranty and 1 Year NBD On-Site Service
10GB for 1 Year Online Data Backup by Dell DataSafe
1 Year Dell Automated PC Tuneup
Good upgrades to consider:

You could get 250-300 I think. i just sold a similiar computer for $300 locally to soemone.
Here are the specs of the one i sold:
AMD Athlon 64 4000+
1GB DDR-400mhz G.Skill
DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D 939
EVGA nVidia 7300GT 256mb
250GB Western Digital SATA HD
All in a similiar gaming case

Unless you have an established side business of selling new/used systems and supporting them, I think you'll have a hard time getting anywhere near that price. I feel you pain though, I always have systems like that to unload; it aint easy. With KB, Mouse, 17 CRT, speakers and some warranty/support, I would get maybe $250 selling that locally now.

Ebay, shipping kills ya on a whole system, and there are no shortage of them. Another problem, it's not worth much pieced apart either. The gig of PC3200 and 6600GT AGP are worth the most for selling. The OS (with product key sticker and CD) would be valuable for you to reuse, but you may have a hard to selling them used. If you just bought Windows XP now to sell the machine, that was IMO a mistake. You could have pieced it and sold it, but now you need to recap that $90 too.

Anyway, Not saying you won't get $300, I'm just always in your position and don't expect to recoup that much for such a system. It's frustrating I admit, but the longer you hold out trying to get $300, the less it's worth. Better to sell it cheaper now, then be force to sell it for even less 6 months from now. I'd be much better off if I had always done that myself.

This is not an auction site folks !!

Yes, I totally agree with you about craigslist for all those reasons.

yeah dude, I'm selling a system with a gigabyte mobo that is still worth $70 new, an AMD 3500+ AM2, a 450-Watt PSU.... hey what do you know? The rig is in my sig, fancy that. I'm selling that for like $260. There's still a lot of upgradability in my thing. Pretty depressing seeing that I bought it for like $700 total.

That Ultra X-Connect is a tier 5 PSU a.k.a. junk. Unless they will warranty all of the other parts that will likely get fried when the PSU blows up, then the warranty is of no real value. Your 620HX is a far far better PSU.

I am glad you understand, based on the questions that you posed in the post I quoted I didn't think you knew better. I find it hard to believe that the Ultra would cover any parts that are damaged from the PSU failure, whether the warranty claims that they would or not. I got the feeling that you thought that the Ultra's warranty being better than the 620HX had a bearing on its relative quality, or anything for that matter.

So, I guess you are no longer curious about what's wrong with the Ultra X-Connect, which should not be confused with their higher end models.

By the way, they still don't make PSUs. As per a previous post from XMSYellowbeard:

You could put linux on it and have a decent file server.....waste not want not!
That's what I'ld do with an old box like that...

Unless you really know what you're doing, buying new stuff is never a good way to increase the price of old stuff. On CL, you'll see a lot of people throw pirated XP or linux on boxes that they're selling because they know they'll never get a premium for the OS license.

If you have a Fry's nearby, and if the computer wasn't very old, it might make sense to buy something like cheap RAM or a cheap mobo/cpu combo and tack that price on, but it's risky.

If I were you, I'd keep the license, and throw linux on it and sell it for $165. Sorry to have to break the news to you...

Damn!, chill out, he was just asking a question, but i agree and disagree, for the hardware, specifically the cpu and cpu, i would say 200 dollars tops, but that set up is beautiful, so if i saw that i would pay the 300 dollars, that look great,make me want to organize mine better. That being said, I just sold a barbones with a asus m2ne mobo, a overclocked x2 5600, and black themaltake soprano case, and a 600 watt rosewill psu for 300 dollars, i felt lucky i got that much, so you can see 300 is kind pushing it, we all take losses for a better system.