Computer Price, need advice

[AUMM]

My friend is selling his computer for $375, here's the basic things it has, i was wondering if it is a good deal

P3 650
64 mb RAM
15 gig HD

the graphics card and whatnot are not really important. i was wondering if this is a good price. thanks

 

[dabuddha]

what kind of motherboard?
my feeling is if its not an Emachine type machine, then its a good deal

 

[AUMM]

im pretty sure its not an emachine, i should find out huh.

 

[AUMM]

its a Hewlett Packard

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

Give him $200.

 

[Soybomb]

I agree, if he offers you the monitor give him say $275 and lets say $225 without it. Its not a bad deal, but not a steal either.

 

[AUMM]

hmm, no monitor

 

[JimmyEatWorld]

I sold a PIII 600 to my roomate, 64 megs ram, and a 6.4 gig HD for $300 last month.
I compared with people selling theirs on campus, and mine bested theirs my $100

 

[RossMAN]

I agree with Soybomb, sure you could go out and buy an el cheapo HP, eMachines or Compaq but it'd likely be a Celeron instead of a Pentium III. Hopefully his has a decent motherboard.

 

[amb#cog]

I played around on a HP a friend of a friend has, and was really surprised at how slow it was. It had a PIII 733, and my bud dug into it a little. It actually had an Abit mobo w/ an AGP card which really surpised me, but it also had PC100 (733 is a 133Mhz chip???), and I assume it's HD had to be 5400 rpms, since it was soooooooooooo slow.

Even opening something simple like the control panel took forever. So I went through it, and did all the standard settings to hopefully speed it up a little, but it was still slower then my Celery 400@450 backup machine I had at the time.

All I can say is I would never buy a name brand computer myself, but if you like how it feels, and it's in your budget. That doesn't seem too crazy of a price to me at all.

However I'm willing to bet you could get a much nicer one in our ForSale/ForTrade forum if you look around for a bit.