what would you pay for this computer?*help*

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OS: GNU/Linux/Mint 13 64bit Cinnamon and XP Home SP3 in VM
CPU: Intel 2.66GHz/4M/1333 dual core E6750 skt 775
Ram: 4GB dual channel DDR3-1333 = PC3-10600 at 4496MB/s
FSB: runs at 1333MHz (the high end safe speed of the motherboard)
Case: Antec 300 Black, 3 x 5.25" external bays
HDD Boot: 60GB SSD Patriot Pyro 6Gb/s
HDD Storage: 500GB/16/7200 3Gb/s WD5000AAKX
MB: Gigabyte G41MT-S2P with 4 SATA ports, HD audio, gigabit LAN
Video card: PCIe-16 XFX 512MB GDDR3 nVidia GT240, VGA, DVI, and HDMI
Optical drive: dvd-rw SATA
USB: 2F 4R
PS/2: both keyboard and mouse
Docking bay: Front 3.5" SATA drive docking bay to add extra hard drive
PS: 500W power supply with +12V at 28A (Inland Gold Series ILS-500

If you're selling it, you might actually get more if you parts it out. Some parts of the system are better than others, like the Patriot Pyro.

I wouldn't buy the system, since most of the stuff is too outdated for me.. but someone might pay.. $200-300? The thing is, the SSD is worth more than virtually everything else

I'll start the bidding... £30 if you throw in delivery (to France)

thanks, i haven't priced out the parts, supposedly it is newer and priced at $651(150.00 for biulding)i'm interested in linux, and it seemed good to me, but not really too knowlegable about this suff so before i went to work, and before i started pricing i thought i'd get counsel from the pros!

The E6750 is a Core 2 Duo chip that came out in 2007. The motherboard is average, towards the low end, but Gigabyte is a good brand. The 'sweet spot' pricewise for DDR RAM right now is speed 1600. The SSD is good and the HD is average nowadays. That graphics card is on the low end but will work well for everything except modern games.

All brand-new, that system would probably cost around $400 for the parts (if you can find them all new anymore), but for that price you can get a faster system for the same amount of money (or less). In particular, the CPU and motherboard are outdated, and the GPU isn't great, although that only really matters for games.

I recently bought a new AMD-based A8-3870 system for about $300 not including HDD and monitor. It has built-in graphics that score 6.7/7.9 in the Windows 7 performance test, and the CPU scores 7.3. With those hard drives it would probably cost around $500.

The A8-3870 is around twice as fast as the Core Duo - and it also has 4 cores whereas the Core Duo has 2. I have a feeling the graphics on the A8 would be faster than the Nvidia card, too.

You can go to NewEgg.com to check out general prices for computer equipment (in the US). Some places are cheaper than NewEgg, too.

Last edited by mglosenger on 10 Aug 2012, 11:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Further research - the GT240 and the A8-3870 actually are basically the same speed-wise for games.

again thank you all, and yes much of the computer is old, the gt240 is out of stock everywhere i look?. it seemed nice when i woke up, but not an expert, so i do have to look this stuff up.
games games games

For that price range, getting a faster GPU than an A8-3870 will be difficult - the GPU basically comes 'free' with the A8 whereas you'll need to pay another $70 or so for things that start being faster. Intel's built-in GPUs (HD3000, etc) are slower (including Ivy Bridge, their latest).

That said, from what I've read the 3870's GPU can only run the latest games smoothly at low/medium quality or so - this is at resolutions like 1920x1080, which most people run at nowadays.

And yeah, I think the GT240 is a generation or two back from Nvidia. All the reviews I see are from late 2009/early 2010, and I think it was one of the later cards Nvidia released for that generation.

I get the sense that that E6750 computer was built a few years ago overall

Wow....u consider this outdated and I thought it sounded like cutting edge......I must be living in the past lol

It's a very fast computer, but you can get better for the money

It's good to have more than one computer, so if the main computer has problems you can use the secondary computer to search the internet or burning an iso image.

Snag yourself a cheap skt775 quad-core processor and just keep using that dandy system!

It's very fast in 2007. Not so much nowadays.