[UK] What value this used 2800+ Sepron PC I saw?

Marcus Houlden wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:06:59 +0000, Surfer! <surfer@127.0.0.1>
> wrote the following to uk.comp.misc:
>
>> In message <494ac543$0$9423$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr>, Lou Ravi
>> <j.murphy@libertysurf.fr> writes
>>> Surfer! wrote:
>>>> In message <Xns9B78D12739B24451E7A@204.153.245.20>, andrew
>>>> <andrew@yahoo.com> writes
>>>>> I saw a used Sempron 2800+ PC for sale today. I'm not keen on
>>>>> ebay and I couldn't get a price match.
>>>>>
>>>>> What do you reckon is the going price for this PC which a dealer
>>>>> bought from a liquidation sale and is selling on.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sempron 2800+
>>>>> Gigabyte mobo: PCIx3 PATAx4 SATAx2 6xUSB ports at rear
>>>>> 512 MB memory (fills both slots)
>>>>> CD-R only
>>>>> small 40 GB hard drive
>>>>> XP Enterprise licence (maybe it means XP Pro?)
>>>>>
>>>>> In quite good condition.
>>>>>
>>>>> £100? £120? £140?
>>>>
>>>> £50 or so. Mostly for the XP licence, if it's genuine.
>>>
>>> Tight bastard ;-)
>>>
>>> I'll offer 65.
>>
>> You must have too much money....
>
> He lives in France so he'll probably be taking advantage of the
> exchange rate.

Indeed. I've suddenly become 'rich' without doing anything. Vive l'Euro

John Jordan wrote:
> andrew wrote:
>>
>> What do you reckon is the going price for this PC which a dealer
>> bought from a liquidation sale and is selling on.
>>
>> Sempron 2800+
>> Gigabyte mobo: PCIx3 PATAx4 SATAx2 6xUSB ports at rear
>> 512 MB memory (fills both slots)
>> CD-R only
>> small 40 GB hard drive
>> XP Enterprise licence (maybe it means XP Pro?)
>
> More likely it means a bogus VLK install. If it doesn't have an AGP
> slot on the motherboard, the individual components are all close to
> worthless.
>> £100? £120? £140?
>
> Remove the first digit and you have the right sort of range :-)

I'll take the 00 then.

On Thu 18 Dec08 22:18, Synapse Syndrome
<synapse@NOSPAMsyndrome.me.uk> wrote

> andrew <andrew@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> I saw a used Sempron 2800+ PC for sale today. I'm not keen on
>> ebay and I couldn't get a price match.
>>
>> What do you reckon is the going price for this PC which a
>> dealer bought from a liquidation sale and is selling on.
>>
>> Sempron 2800+
>> Gigabyte mobo: PCIx3 PATAx4 SATAx2 6xUSB ports at rear
>> 512 MB memory (fills both slots)
>> CD-R only
>> small 40 GB hard drive
>> XP Enterprise licence (maybe it means XP Pro?)
>>
>> In quite good condition.
>>
>> 100? 120? 140?
>
> I gave away a Sempron 3400+ (maybe 3200+?) with a Foxconn
> motherboard, 30GB and 40GB disks, 512MB RAM, CD-ROM player, and
> speakers, for free a few weeks ago. I had it knocking around
> doing nothing for over a year, but a friend of my brother said
> he would be interested in having it, as he did not have a
> computer of his own.
>

The Sempron 2800+ must be a decent enough processor (ok so yours was
faster) so why is that system worth so little?

I'm on an Athlon 2100+ (Via 266 chipset) and figured the Sempron 2800
would be a step up. No?

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:43:37 GMT
andrew <andrew@yahoo.com> wrote:

> The Sempron 2800+ must be a decent enough processor (ok so yours was
> faster) so why is that system worth so little?

The license is probably corporate, so worthless (non-transferable).
Look at eBay completed listings for the other stuff:
CPU ~ £10
HD ~ £10
MoBo ~ £15
CDR ~ £1
>
> I'm on an Athlon 2100+ (Via 266 chipset) and figured the Sempron 2800
> would be a step up. No?

Go to somewhere like eBuyer and you can buy the bits to build a system
with e.g. Athlon 64 X2 5200+, 160GB HD and 2GB RAM for £160[1].
That's without an optical drive or operating system, but presumably you
have those already, and it will provide a noticeable improvement over
your current system.

[1] That's with a cheap case/PSU, although not the cheapest. Most
people would probably advise you to get something better - if the PSU
fails it can take other stuff with it, and a better case will often
have better cooling, which may prolong the life of other components.

Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:43:37 GMT
> andrew <andrew@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> The Sempron 2800+ must be a decent enough processor (ok so yours was
>> faster) so why is that system worth so little?

Someone had actually given me that machine in the first place when one of
mine had what turned out to be a PSU problem. It was quite noisy and had a
cheap case/PSU and uATX motherboard. When I saw that my old PIII-800 used
less electricity I made that into my sort of server computer instead. I
gave it to the first person that saw it that wanted it.

> The license is probably corporate, so worthless (non-transferable).

Yeah...

ss.