Is this a good deal?

[Irishwhistle]

Someone has offered to sell me a self-built desktop for $45 dollars with these specs:

AMD Athlon 1GhZ
512MB RAM
Radeon 9250 Chipset RX9250-T128
8GB HD (I'll have to upgrade that)

Is it a good deal?

 

[porterjw]

For under $50, if you could put it to use, I'd say go for it.

 

[Irishwhistle]

For under $50, if you could put it to use, I'd say go for it.

I sure could put it to use! My current rig is junk (Intel Celeron, 246MB RAM 512 Max and a junky graphics card.) How good is the graphics card in that rig anyway... I get the idea that it's pretty sweet.

 

[Irishwhistle]

Oh, yeah, and how good is the processor? I've never used an athlon.

 

[cohen]

For that i would get it before this current PC i have now i had a CPU of 766MHZ, 512MB (originally 256MB and go more), Windows XP Home, it use to run really well!

Then my friend's computer died so i said have this one and have that him and he uses that for MSN and it flies along

But that is a really good for the $$$$.

 

[deankenny]

graphics card wont play any of the current games from about 2004-05 onwards, but yeh for $45 get it

 

[Irishwhistle]

graphics card wont play any of the current games from about 2004-05 onwards, but yeh for $45 get it

I'm not a gamer, so that's OK. If only it had SSE2...

 

[Ramodkk]

That's a perfect deal, go for it. The processor by itself would cost you around $25-35

 

[Irishwhistle]

I've found out that the CPU is Socket A... is there a good socket A CPU I can get if I want to upgrade?