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Hi Chaps
As some of you know, I am moving to Canada and selling all my stuff, PC included. It is now about 3.5 years old, and have no idea what it is worth – a mate is interested, but not sure how much to ask for… anyone fancy giving me an idea? Cheers
Case STYLISH SILVER/BLACK TRIDENT CASE + 2 FRONT USB
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™2 Duo E8400 (3.00GHz) 1333MHz FSB/6MB L2 Cache
Motherboard ASUS® P5QL: DDR2, SATAII, PCI-e x16, 3 PCI, 2 x PCI-e x1
Memory (RAM) 4GB CORSAIR XMS2 800MHz – LIFETIME WARRANTY! (2x2GB)
Graphics Card 1GB ATI RADEON™ HD 4890 PCI EXPRESS
Memory – 1st Hard Disk OCZ AGT3-25SAT3-120G Agility 3 120GB SATA III 2.5 inch SSD
Memory – 2nd Hard Disk Samsung F3 HD103SJ 1TB internal Hard Drive SATAII 32MB Cache 7200RPM – OEM
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 22x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD, MS, CF, SD, etc)
Power Supply 800W Quiet Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£89) (Special Offer)
Processor Cooling ARCTIC COOLING FREEZER 7 PRO QUIET INTEL CPU COOLER (£19)
Sound Card ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
USB Options 8 x USB 2.0 PORTS (6 REAR + 2 FRONT) AS STANDARD
Operating System Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium 64-bit + Windows 7 Upgrade VoucherBold hard disks are about 6 months old
If it was my pc selling to a mate, I’d say around £350-£400. It’s likely worth around £450-£500 imo.
Holy shit… ok. Was thinking around the £250 mark with monitor! Glad I checked.
If only my mate wasn’t so bloody poor!
Another quick question – It has windows 7 on it, but also full of my crap – so obviously want to format prior to selling. If I format through windows, will the operating system remain on it, or will it be formatted too?
Cheers
Depends on how you reformat it. Do you have the win 7 cd or a recovery drive with tools to reinstall it? You can reformat during the windows installation process. If you straight reformat, you’ll lose everythung on the disk, including windows.
Yeah what matt says.
Backup your shite.
Insert windows disk… reboot comp.
Will load up the windows install disk (if you have set your boot disc right) choose option of clean install / full install.
Job done.
This is pretty safe. But if you have any really dangerous data on your HD that must never be found then you would be best to reformat the whole disc with 0s and 1s before doing the windows install – I think data recovery guys could still find a load of stuff on your machine even after a windows install (yes i do mean naked pics of your sister).
Arse – I have a download version… although I do have vista on disk so could probs format on to that, and then redownload the downloaded windows 7.
In terms of selling this PC… although windows 8 is shite, do you think it would sell better with 7 or 8? I can get either for free.
Cheers
I don’t know but if you can get win 8 for free, and it’s licensed correctly, then you might have more success through it being the more recent system. I’ve not really heard anything that would suggest it’s actually shite, it’s more of a case that it has new features which are totally irrelevant to me, and I see no need to spend extortionate amounts of money in a needless upgrade from win 7. If it’s free then you don’t have that concern.
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