Is this worth $300?

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DoubleHogarth

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Hello,

I was recently looking around and was offered this, well it was at $500 and i offered $300 before i decided to pay i thought I could get some information to see if it was a good deal. Below are specs and some photos!

"Alienware Gaming Computer
This computer was bought and placed in a summer home and sat unused until now. It has windows XP installed, and was turned on less than 10 times. Comes with no cords, just the CPU.

$500 or Best Offer

More Pictures Available, Or you can come see it if your serious.

Components

Hard Drives
-Max Store Diamond Max 160GB
-Western Digital Raptor WD740GB

Graphics
-NVIDIA Ge Force 6800 - 2 installed

RAM
Kingston Hyper X 512MB - 2 installed


Sound Card
Audigy 2 SB-0350

Dual CD/DVD Drive
Floppy Drive

Mother Board
-Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe - UAY


MotherBoard
Ultra Brand "

That's what was given to me and the pictures are below.

http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss48/doublehogarth/pic1.jpg
http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss48/doublehogarth/pic2.jpg
http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss48/doublehogarth/pic3.jpg

Thanks!
 
That is not a "Alienware" tower. The tower is made by "ATop" and is called Z-Alien. 3 years ago it sold for 90 -120 dollars. I have a black one of those. good case for gaming tho. Plenty of room and the case is aluminum, instead of steal. Lighter than most. Here is the picture of mine.
2450d1207898582-post-pic-your-pc-here-my_system.jpg
 
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What kind of CPU?
What are the speeds on the hdd?
How much ram on the graphic cards?
What are the speeds on the DVD-RW?
Is there a genuine copy of Windows included?

Just to let you know, this system can have a maximum of 4 GB DDR PC-3200
(400 mhz) memory. That type of memory is hard to find, and so it is expensive.
You would have to buy 4 x 1 GB sticks to get 4 GB of memory - which will cost
you about $35 US per stick, for a total upgrade cost of $140 + tax + delivery.

That is $140 for some old-school slow memory. You can get 4 GB of 800 mhz
memory for only $30 US.

If the system doesn't have Windows, you won't be able to play games unless
you buy a copy, so you will have to pay $99 US + tax.

You can probably buy a single PCI-E 16x graphics card that will perform better
than the two 6800 combined for $100 or less.

And the motherboard is a socket 939 so it will not support most of the new
AMD processors. I think the only socket 939 dual-core processor costs $500+.
Can anyone varify this?

Most likely, I would not spend $300 on this system.
 
yeah i told the owner nevermind i found that same tower and noticed alienware doesnt even make those. damn scam artists on craigslist lol.
 
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