System Forsale

[Derek D. Martin]

At some point hitherto, Anthony J. Gabrielson hath spake thusly:
> I'm seling a Dual PII 350 that is dual headed (2 - 20" Trinitrons). It has
> 196MB ram several SCSI hard drives, Plextor Ultra SCSI CD, TV Tuner card,
> Creative audio, good size case with plenty of room, its running redhat 
> 7.2 - and looks pretty slick with both monitors.  I can send out a dmesg
> if interested.  I'm asking $785.

While it does sound like a cool system, I really don't think $800 is a
very good price for a used PII system with those specs.  The system
must be over 2 years old, based on the CPUs...  For about
$250 more than what you're asking, you can put together a brand new
system with about 4x the power:

[Note all prices from pricewatch and include shipping.  Where the
vendor provided a range, I chose the high end.  So the total price
could conceivably be as much as about $50 less...]

MB & CPU: $366
 Tyan S2507T Retail Box 1A/5P/3Dimm eplaces S2507D,2Year Warr. Dual
Pentium® III.
  With Dual Pentium III 933Mhz With CPU (2) PC133 cpu+ heatsink & fan
Complete Combo Set.

Memory: $42
 256MB PC133 SDRAM DIMM 

SCSI Adaptor: $131
 Tekram DC390U2B Fast SCSI-2, Wide, Ultra and Ultra2-Wide SCSI Host
Adapters- 

SCSI Storage, 36GB: $145
  IBM DRHS-36D 36GB SCSI LVD 80 PIN 1.6 HIGH

SCSI CD:  $105 
 Pioneer DVD 305S 10X DVD/40X CD-Rom 

Sound: $29
  SOUND BLASTER LIVE! DE 5.1 - OEM

Tuner: $162
  ATI ALL IN WONDER AIW RADEON 7500 64MB DDR AGP,BULK oem
  Powered by the RADEON 7500 GPU,64MB DDR memory,Stereo
TV-tuner,TV-ON-DEMAND

Case: $67
  Aopen-KF45A mid-tower ATX computer cases. Beige color. 300watts

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Total price: $1047

If you really want it dual-headed, you can add a second radeon
(without TV tuner) for about $80.  The components selected above are
almost guaranteed to be better than what you have, in every case.  The
CPU power of dual PIII 933MHz chips is roughly 4x what you're getting
with your dual PIIs.

If you don't need the performance, you can select cheaper components
and build this system for just about what you're asking for. If you
don't need much in the way of 3D acceleration, you can drop about $100
off the cost of two video cards for the system, keeping the total at
just over $1000.  By buying lesser components, you can save money on
the SCSI adaptor, CPU, sound card, and case too, which would bring you
down to right around $800.  And this is for a brand-new system with
all new components that still have manufacturer warranty.  The best
you can offer the purchaser is that "it works right now."

I wouldn't expect to get more than $400 for this system, if I were
selling it...  And I personally woudn't pay more than $250.  But then,
I'm a cheap bastard.  ;-)

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