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09/17/2008 05:24:55 AM · #1 |
I have been thinking about getting a PC as a back-up to my laptop, which has to go in for repair/new motherboard. A friend is selling his old one, specs as follows:
High Speed 3HGZ Tower PC For Sale
Spec 3GHZ AMD Athlon 64 Bit Processor
ASUS Motherboard with 5.1 on board sound
1GB RAM
160GB HD
Nvidia 6600 Graphics card 128MB RAM (v fast good for games)
Windows XP (licensed)
I would be running CS2 and Lightroom (assuming I can persuade Adobe to let me run it on both laptop and PC). He wants £150 for it - is this a decent deal, or am I better off waiting another year of saving and getting something with a higher spec? Answers in layman's terms please! |
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09/17/2008 05:32:20 AM · #2 |
Does it come with a monitor? Or do you have your own one? Price sounds good to me, that spec should be fine for Lightroom + CS2 - It would benefit from another 1Gb of ram, but memory is so cheap these days.
Couple of things I'd check;
- Is it noisy? - I have a PC almost the same spec as that, but I hardly ever boot it up because the fan noise drives me insane
- Will it come freshly formatted and with XP installed? - This would be much nicer than having XP plus however many years of software debris sitting on the hard disk slowing it down.
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09/17/2008 06:25:05 AM · #3 |
| I agree with JH, I think it would be fine and if you could grab some extra RAM that would make it even better. I would want at least 2+ gigs of RAM but like JH said, its cheap and easy to install so I would try it out and if you like it go for it! |
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09/17/2008 06:58:50 AM · #4 |
| Thanks guys - I'll send him an e-mail. Not sure if it has a monitor, but my b/f has one sitting in his garage gathering dust. |
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09/17/2008 07:09:10 AM · #5 |
This is ALMOST identical to the one I am getting for my 7 year old at walmart. Only difference is I'm getting a 17" LCD, a 1.6 GHz Dual core, and a 250GB HDD and I'm only paying $398
The only thing that really stands out to me in yours is the 3GHz processor. That sucker will haulass
Message edited by author 2008-09-17 07:10:18.
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09/17/2008 09:31:06 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by Dirt_Diver:
This is ALMOST identical to the one I am getting for my 7 year old at walmart. Only difference is I'm getting a 17" LCD, a 1.6 GHz Dual core, and a 250GB HDD and I'm only paying $398
The only thing that really stands out to me in yours is the 3GHz processor. That sucker will haulass |
Depends which version it really is. if it's a the athlon 64 3000+ and not the athlon X2 6000 it's going to be easily outperformed by the 1.6ghz dual core. |
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09/17/2008 10:25:42 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by kyebosh:
Originally posted by Dirt_Diver:
This is ALMOST identical to the one I am getting for my 7 year old at walmart. Only difference is I'm getting a 17" LCD, a 1.6 GHz Dual core, and a 250GB HDD and I'm only paying $398
The only thing that really stands out to me in yours is the 3GHz processor. That sucker will haulass |
Depends which version it really is. if it's a the athlon 64 3000+ and not the athlon X2 6000 it's going to be easily outperformed by the 1.6ghz dual core. |
Yup what he said and the all important thing is the price. Friends selling friends their old computer is not always a good thing. They are selling for a reason, usually speed, ram, video and disk storage.
This looks to be a home built rig, and many times the builder would like to recoup some of the cost put into it. When you can get a new Gateway, HP or (yuck) Dell with a Quadcore AMD Phenom, at least 3G ram and a DirectX 10 capable video card and a decent size sata drive for < $500 it don't make sense to buy a AMD64 or Single Core Intel (about 4 or 5 year old) for anymore than 100 bucks (and you are still getting 5 year old technology). I gutted an AMD64 3400+ with an nVidia 7800 and 2G ram just last year because I will never get out of it what I got into it and like I say one can get 4x the computer for a few more bucks than what I'd have to sell it for.
Message edited by author 2008-09-17 11:06:04. |
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