Where to buy a good used computer?

Just wondering, other than ebay, if anyone knows where to buy a good, 3 year old or so computer, homebuilt. Ive seen deals like this one, on ebay Asus seems to be the only good MBs. No Gigabyte, nuthing. and I know alot of computer junkies build and sell their old toys at a huge loss, because they start causing clutter:-D This forum doesnt have a for-sale section.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...FgRIRpM%3D&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK:MEWAX:IT

This looked like a pretty good buy for the price, with Win7.

 

I donate my stuff, maybe check in your local area.

 

72,000 RPM HDD? Haha.

 

Thats a helicopter not a HDD

 

roflmao! Poor poster is getting lambasted for a simple error.:-D

 

No slight intended on Rocktot, it was aimed at the person selling the PC.:-D

 

TBH when you look at the cost of new PCs that have been pre-built I dont really see why you would want a 3-4 year old PC? I cant see the PC you linked to as Ebay is banned at my work but you can get new laptops/netbooks for £300 and I expect you could get a complete desktop for similar price... goes to google...

http://www.dabs.com/products/lenovo-thinkcentre-a70-intel-celeron-e3400-1gb-160gb-dvdrw-free-dos-7HWQ.html

You could probably put another GB of RAM in for £30 and you will have a brand new system with full warrenty

 

Its a flying pc. For $250 that looked like a decent PC, I just want full ATX so I could upgrade the RAM to megaram, keep up with next O/S, do virtual o/s stuff. I'm not gonna game with it. I want a desktop. And its just $150.00 more than buying the Win 7. I dont want no acer computer...this was an Asus MB with good perifs! :wave

 

You wont need full ATX to do any of the upgrades you want although the PC on ebay was higher spec than the one I linked too but it did not appear to have a monitor keyboard mouse etc with it.

 

Yea, this is America, you can go to any University campus and get $1000.00 computers in the trash if you wanna dig, at the end of the year. It ALL goes! Bikes, computers, TVs, furniture, pot, cars, girlfriends etc..

"I donate my stuff, maybe check in your local area."

Its a giant junkyard, if you live in an upper middle class area! Do you have 'freecycle' in England?

 

Freecycle is the way to go if you can do it. I arrived in America with sweek fuk all to be brutally honest. All I had was two bags and a few hundred dollars and my then soon to be wife. My first washer/dryer was from free cycle! In return when I got on my feet i donated tv's, computers, monitors all kinds of stuff I didn't need anymore and stuff that didn't need to go to the landfill.

An option for those on the other side of the water if you can do it. Have a friend, maybe someone going to the US on holiday buy you a laptop or even tower and bring it back for you. The cost of computer equipment over here is nothing next to what I used to pay back home. I bought a laptop here on newegg.com brand new laptop a year and a half ago, HP dual core AMD chip, Radeon 4200 graphics, 3GB RAM and 250GB HDD for $450 no tax and free postage.

 

Ok, how about these? Whats the best deal IYO
(Without OS)- The bottom one you can't get (new) RAM in the same type, so that may limit upgrade?
Also, the bottom 2 are O/C'd I think, so its just dual core. Could that have an impact if they were run triple? The guy selling is a major geek!

Condition New Quad-Core- $400
Case Thermaltake V3
Power Supply Thermaltake 500
Case Fans 1x120mm
Mobo&CPU Asus M4A785TD-M EVO
Phenom II x3 740 3.0 GHz Black Edition
Memory 8GB Ripjaws 1600 DDR3
HDD 1 TB SATA 7200RPM WD Green
2nd HDD
DVD Asus DL DVD-RW


Condition New Triple-Core- $375
Case Rosewill Challenger
Power Supply OCZ SXS500
Case Fans 3x120mm
Mobo&CPU Asus M4A785-M
Phenom II x2 550 3.1 GHz Black Edition
Memory 8GB OCZ Platinum DDR2 800
HDD Seagate 7200RPM SATA 500 GB
2nd HDD
DVD Lite-On DL DVD-RW


Condition Used Dual-Core- $325
Case Apex
Power Supply Raidmax 530 Modular
Case Fans 1x80mm
Mobo&CPU Asus M4A785-M
Phenom II x2 555 3.2 GHz Black Edition
Memory 4GB Patriot DDR2 1066
HDD Seagate 7200RPM SATA 500 GB
2nd HDD Maxtor 160 GB 7200 RPM IDE
DVD LG 22x DVD-RW

 

Eh, for the bottom I have this: mainly from new egg: So its worth about $285 at auction. No OS either...

$87.99 chip
70.00 memory 4 gig
75 mb
35 power
35hd
50hd
20 dvd
20 case

about $400.00