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Should my brother buy my old PC parts?

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mazeroth

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My brother currently has an Athlon 1700+ (1500mhz) with 768megs of PC2700 and a Radeon 9800 PRO 128meg AGP card. I just bought all new PC parts and was going to sell him this:

Asus Motherboard
Athlon 2800+ Barton (runs at 1800mhz stock)
eVGA 6600GT AGP 128meg
Corsair Value Select 2x512 PC3200

I was going to let him have it for $200, but I know I could get $250+ easy for it off ebay. I don't think it's going to be a huge step up for him; maybe 50-75% faster. He could probably spend $500 and get an ASRock 939, an Athlon64 3000+, GeForce 7800GT, and a gig of RAM. He's happy with what he has now but I wouldn't be 🙂

With that, how much faster do you think my old rig would be than his and do you think it's worth it?

Thanks!
 
hey I say if hes allready happy with what he has now and your willing to give him a decent upgrade for 200$ I say its worth it.
 
If you were starting out with all new components going 939 and PCI-E at the same time, I wouldn't get the Asrock board.
 
Understood about the ASRock.

About him...do you think it would be worth it for him to spend $200 to upgrade to my old stuff?
 
I think that's a decent upgrade if he overclocks the Barton. If he doesn't, I would bother to upgrade from socket A to a slightly faster Socket A.

I would let him have the new cpu, new ram and video card. You could then ebay the 1700+, Asus motherboard, the PC2700 and the 9800pro for some money.

Now, if his mobo blows chunks, I'd give him the asus, but I'd try to get away with using his original socket A mobo because I'm lazy 🙂
 
Hmmm....

I don't think there's too much of a performance difference between a 9800p and a 6600GT. So he may not actually notice much of a difference even though the CPU is a little faster.

But then again, maybe you guys are near each other (same house) and you can compare the rigs side-by-side on the games he plays to actualy see how much of a diff there is.

Fern
 
I am surprised no one brought this up already, but Barton core 2800+ runs at 2083MHZ, not 1800.... here is the link.. http://www.thedigerati.us/info/amdcpuchart.html#xp I would swap him my old stuff for his and then sell his...that way you help your brother out but still make a little cash off the deal... and 50 to 75% faster is a huge step with the socket A platforms....the 6600GT is noticably faster than the 9800Pro in his setup...I have had both and can really see the difference between them...
 
That is a very minor upgrade, unless your brother needs more performance I would honestly tell him to save his money. The motherboard/CPu will be alot faster, but thats it, and I'm not sure it will be fast enough to notice unless he does alot of photoshop or heavy gaming.
 
Originally posted by: allanon1965
...Barton core 2800+ runs at 2083MHZ

.. and 50 to 75% faster is a huge step with the socket A platforms...
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Just curious, how are you arrriving at 50-75% faster?

If its 1500mhz divided by 2000mhz = 75%, well that's 25% faster, not 75%

If the 1500mhz cpu runs at 75% of the 2000mhz cpu, with an increase of 25% the 1500mhz cpu would run as fast as the 2000mhz cpu. Hence, 25% difference between them.

Of course, I wouldn't rely on that math anyway. I'd look for benchies on apps your brother may use. (For a moment, thought that's what your link was.)

Fern
 
Well the 6600GT and R9800 Pro are very similar in performance. Pretty much equal overall. Also going from 756MB ram to 1GB is not a very big leap. Unless he games hes not going to notice the speed improvements.
 
Fern, I was not saying it was 50 to 75% faster, he was, i was just saying that a 50 to 75% faster system is a huge difference, not the small difference he was talking about, sorry if i didnt make that clear.
 
Originally posted by: Fern
Originally posted by: allanon1965
...Barton core 2800+ runs at 2083MHZ

.. and 50 to 75% faster is a huge step with the socket A platforms...
Click to expand...

Just curious, how are you arrriving at 50-75% faster?

If its 1500mhz divided by 2000mhz = 75%, well that's 25% faster, not 75%

If the 1500mhz cpu runs at 75% of the 2000mhz cpu, with an increase of 25% the 1500mhz cpu would run as fast as the 2000mhz cpu. Hence, 25% difference between them.

Of course, I wouldn't rely on that math anyway. I'd look for benchies on apps your brother may use. (For a moment, thought that's what your link was.)

Fern
Click to expand...

Going from 1500 MHz to 2000 MHz is 33% faster... (500 is 1/3 of 1500)
 
I say either trade it with him, or sell it.

If I was him I wouldn't take the $200 deal -- I'd stick with what I had, or I'd get the ASRock and a CPU (a bit more than $200 total at the cheapest; I'd consider going to a dual core), and just keep that until I wanted to upgrade to a new video card. The trend on 939 prices (except for the 3000+ which dropped off) is good, esp. for dual core.

There's some chance that I'd wait until AM2 came out and see if/when I could afford to make you feel slower or out of date 😉, but more likely, assuming a tight budget, I wouldn't take the chance on waiting so long and finding the prices too high, and instead look for bargains whereever they are. If they're in eBay 6800 GT AGP's, then I'd certainly consider them, assuming that I'm willing to continue staying behind the leading edge. I'd equally consider waiting for a 7900 to be released and looking for a used bargain on a 7800, and similarly for a processor upgrade, whether via price dropping to fight a new Intel release, or the release of AM2, etc.

If I had a good line on a bargain higher-end AGP card, and I did 3D gaming, I'd consider getting that first, and might even consider upgrading to a dirt-cheap disposable 754 if I could find one, but the ASRock looks like a good bargain-hunting option.

I wouldn't spend money on Socket A itself if I didn't have to.
 
Since both are Socket A, why not sell him just the CPU? You can use the memory and video for your next PC. The motherboard could fetch $20 on ebay and the 6600 if you do not want it sells for around $90. The RAM you have is easily worhth $75.

Here is my math-
Money from ebay
20 -motherboard
90- 6600 video card
________
110 - earned
40 -Sell CPU to your brother
_______
$150 earned

The Cost of New RAM for your new PC will cost you $80-100 so by keeping it you have in theroy come out $80 richer for a total Sale Price of 230!
 
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