Selling a used computer?

[Dubesta11]

I just made this post asking what you guys thought of adding an SSD to this would do: Link

 

So it's a Gateway SFF computer with a 2.8GHz Pentium and a 1TB WD Green HDD, as well as 6GB of RAM. I think that with an SSD instead of the hard drive, it would make for a decent light usage computer. Would it be worth investing an SSD into (Since I got it for free) for around 50-60 dollars, then try to sell it? What do you think something like this would be worth?

 

Any input would be great!

 

Edit: Adding an SSD alongside the HDD would cost about 70 dollars, and replacing the HDD would cost 45-65 dollars (Depending on 120GB or 240GB drives).

 

Edit 2: Looks like an older version of this: http://us.gateway.com/gw/en/US/content/sx-series/sx-series

[alexhelvetica]

Don't want money on an SSD for that PC. Downgrade the HDD to a 250GB drive,  remove 2GB of ram and sell it for $60.

Now you will have 2GB spare DDR2 for your next free PC and a 1TB drive that you can use as a backup drive. 

 

[DevTechStudios]

Sell how it is, try to sell for around $50-$60. With that computer, an SSD would help, but odds are the person you are selling it to just needs a computer and doesn't know what an SSD is. 

[Dubesta11]

3 minutes ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

Don't want money on an SSD for that PC. Downgrade the HDD to a 250GB drive,  remove 2GB of ram and sell it for $60.

Now you will have 2GB spare DDR2 for your next free PC and a 1TB drive that you can use as a backup drive. 

 

 

I believe its a pentium on LGA 755, so DDR3 RAM. So I would be better off selling it for cheap? I literally just built a computer and this would have been good enough for what I needed. 

[Dubesta11]

1 minute ago, DevTechStudios said:

Sell how it is, try to sell for around $50-$60. With that computer, an SSD would help, but odds are the person you are selling it to just needs a computer and doesn't know what an SSD is. 

Fair enough, I will probably just wipe the drive after doing the windows 10 upgrade and hopefully the operating system stays working.

[DevTechStudios]

1 minute ago, Dubesta11 said:

Fair enough, I will probably just wipe the drive after doing the windows 10 upgrade and hopefully the operating system stays working.

Fingers crossed! 

[alexhelvetica]

3 minutes ago, Dubesta11 said:

 

I believe its a pentium on LGA 755, so DDR3 RAM. So I would be better off selling it for cheap? I literally just built a computer and this would have been good enough for what I needed. 

LGA 775 mobo can use either DDR1, DDR2 or DDR3. The older ones tend to use DDR1 (Pentium 4 or Pentium D) most use DDR2 (Core2 or Pentium Dual core).  Very few LGA 775 motherboards use DDR3 since DDR3 was expensive and new. 

[Dubesta11]

6 minutes ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

LGA 775 mobo can use either DDR1, DDR2 or DDR3. The older ones tend to use DDR1 (Pentium 4 or Pentium D) most use DDR2 (Core2 or Pentium Dual core).  Very few LGA 775 motherboards use DDR3 since DDR3 was expensive and new. 

 

This one was from around 2010, I didn't really inspect the ram but I think the fact that it has 6GB is more important than the speed of it, since RAM is usually not a bottleneck.

[alexhelvetica]

4 minutes ago, Dubesta11 said:

 

This one was from around 2010, I didn't really inspect the ram but I think the fact that it has 6GB is more important than the speed of it, since RAM is usually not a bottleneck.

It is a basic PC,  it doesn’t need 6GB of ram. If you are selling it with 6GB of ram you will get more, but you are scaming people who don't know any better. You will probably get more with a PC with 4GB of ram compared with 2GB if you get one later on with 2GB.

 

With DDR2 and DDR1,  ram speed could be a bottle neck in gaming,  but that will not matter with a basic PC like that one. 

 

I still think it will be DDR2 since that was never a high end pc. 

[Dubesta11]

9 hours ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

It is a basic PC,  it doesn’t need 6GB of ram. If you are selling it with 6GB of ram you will get more, but you are scaming people who don't know any better. You will probably get more with a PC with 4GB of ram compared with 2GB if you get one later on with 2GB.

 

With DDR2 and DDR1,  ram speed could be a bottle neck in gaming,  but that will not matter with a basic PC like that one. 

 

I still think it will be DDR2 since that was never a high end pc. 

 

It's actually this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883113141

 

Looks like DDR3