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ScottCree

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Okay I have a desktop that I want to sell for the correct price.
It is a dell Inspiron 531 with a 19" LCD monitor.
It has the original stylish keyboard that came with the package, but with a different mouse which doesn't really matter.
It also has windows 7 installed with avast Internet security.
It has 65.1 GB free of 74.4 GB on the Local Disk (C:)
It has a 32-bit Operating System and a AMD Sempron(tm) processor 3600+. 2.00GHz.
Everything is clear on it, been rebooted and all virus free with no programmes installed other than the virus programme. So all fresh for a new user.
I just need a value on it please so I know I'm selling it at the right price as I'm no good at valuing computers myself. Please :)
And it British Pounds.
Ps: my friend said the whole lot is worth around £250, but I ain't sure if he's correct.
 
Its old technology so I'm guessing at max 75 pounds, if you are lucky.
 
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These answers can't be right. Just the screen alone is worth around £70 surely.
Then the monitor plus the windows 7 which costs like £70 to buy
 
monitor you can likely get more for, but the machine itself is a low end setup, sempron is a budget cpu, which by todays standards is low end, probably at most you could ask 200 for everything, tower is likely at most 100, id say closer to 75 though.
 
What if I upgrade it from windows 7 to windows 7 ultimate. Will the price go up for the tower, and what would the overall value be?
 
And if its a 720p old square monitor, thats worth like 20 pounds. If its a widescreen 1440x900 or 1080p then its worth alot more. Anyone can install windows 7 on it. They dont care. And only 1gb ram and a 80gb harddrive, you are not getting much for it. And to furyrosewood, I hope you mean $200, not pounds.
 
The problem is you have old hardware am2 socket motherboard and the processor is only a single core Sempron which is slow by itself. You can't expect to sell it for much when you can go out and get a brand new updated computer for only a little more right off the shelf. Computers depreciate quickly.
 
OS doesn't have much effect on the value of the computer. Sure a new copy of Windows 7 is $100 but that doesn't mean if it's installed on a computer it adds that much to the value of the hardware.
 
I think £75 for the machine is too high, I wouldn't pay £75 for that. I sold a machine with a P4 HT, 2GB DDR2 RAM, 160GB HDD and a 9600 GSO for £60 at Christmas, with Windows 7 Ultimate installed.

Stick it on eBay for £50 and see what happens. It's a low end machine and yeah computers depreciate very quickly sadly.
 
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