price check - complete 2nd hand system

[petrefax]

morning all - looking for your opinions please

i've got a new motherboard on order & once that turns up i'll have nearly enough bits for 2 PCs

much tho i want to keep both, i really can't afford it so i've been talking to a mate about buying one of them - don't want to rip her off tho cos she's a good mate & has just returned to college as a mature student so what do you reckon i should charge for this lot??

these are the bits i have
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Motherboard (MSI KT4 Ultra SR)
Case (Leo series ATX - gunmetal grey w/blue neon front light)
Power Supply (Q-Tec 350w)
Processor & Heatsink (AMD XP2200+ retail boxed set)
256MB RAM (samsung DDR2700 333mhz)
CD re-writer (LiteOn 52x/48x/52x)
DVD-ROM (LiteOn 16x)
Floppy disk drive

i'll need to buy these new
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Graphics card (Sapphire ATI 9200 128MB) £55
Hard drive (40Gb maxtor diamondmax) £45
Modem (Creative Modem Blaster V.92 PCI ) £17
Cables, thermal paste, fans etc (approx) £20

reckon £300 is a fair price for this lot or am i too high / too low in your opinion???

ta very much for your input

[Trickle]

Could you help us out with a pickie of the case and a stat run down on the mobo to save google some bandwidth?

My *guesses*

• Mobo (assuming KT400 poverty spec board) - £30
• Case - no idea
• PSU - £10 [could be harsh, but qteck <550's arnt great - but at least its branded]
• CPU + cooler - 40 (tbed A or B makes no difference to general public so price better than what you would get on forum)
• Ram - £15
• CD RW - £25
• DVDRom - £15
• Floppy - £5
  
• Total = £140

Adding your extra stuff's £137 = 277 - case so we are close.
You including keyboards etc in your £300 price? OS?

[petrefax]

cheers mate, much appreciated

case as below - apologies for rubbish quality pic - its saturday so i'm a bit shaky this morn

forgot to mention, although u can see in pic, case has 2xUSB ports on front / side edge too



mobo spec as per MSI info page here

[bledd]

for about £5 - £10 more, you could whack an 80gb WD SE (8mb cache) in there, -instead of the 40gb, which would be far more appealing

[petrefax]

true enough mate - but i don't reckon she'd fill 40gb in a year

[Austin]

I would stick a 60-80GB in there, she may end up with a Broadband connection LOL! I think £300 is a very fair price, a PC is more than the sum of its parts, perhaps look at what comparable new or 2nd hand systems are going for and use that as a guide (and show her too). £350 wouldn't be unreasonable esp as you're going to spend a few hours of trouble and strife putting it all together to give her a working and usable PC. That's a great system BTW, most non-techie's would be impressed with a Duron 200FSB (2x100mhz) and onboard gfx.

[petrefax]

cheers austin glad you like it mate

[TooNice]

Originally posted by petrefax

CD re-writer (LiteOn 52x/48x/52x)

That... Can't be real

Typo?

[petrefax]

Originally posted by TooNice
That... Can't be real

Typo?

oops - my mistake 52x/24x/52x