Buying an older PC for parts. Worth it?

[mepwm]

So I've been chatting with my Coworker about buying his old PC for spare parts. It's nothing great or even that good really. But I was wondering if I should even grab it for the price. I offered him 45 bucks for it POSSIBLY 50.

 

http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c02863024

 

It's clearly just another OEM family desktop. Is 45 bucks for this PC an okay deal on either end? Also, could something like this (Granted I put in another 4 gigs of RAM and some more hard drives) function properly as a NAS? Nothing too hefty. Maybe just a storage box for some of my larger files and some media? Tips? Any hints would be super coolio. 

[AnnoyedShelf]

6 minutes ago, mepwm said:

So I've been chatting with my Coworker about buying his old PC for spare parts. It's nothing great or even that good really. But I was wondering if I should even grab it for the price. I offered him 45 bucks for it POSSIBLY 50.

 

http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c02863024

 

It's clearly just another OEM family desktop. Is 45 bucks for this PC an okay deal on either end? Also, could something like this (Granted I put in another 4 gigs of RAM and some more hard drives) function properly as a NAS? Nothing too hefty. Maybe just a storage box for some of my larger files and some media? Tips? Any hints would be super coolio. 

I'd honestly go lower.  Got a PC with an i5 750, full sized atx motherboard, and 4GB of RAM for $40 canadian.

[AnnoyedShelf]

Just now, Jorgen297 said:

thats like $25 USD dollars LUL

Yeah our dollar sucks.  But my point still stands.  OP can go lower on the price.

[mepwm]

2 minutes ago, AnnoyedShelf said:

I'd honestly go lower.  Got a PC with an i5 750, full sized atx motherboard, and 4GB of RAM for $40 canadian.

Okay cool. I offered him 45, only because he is a Coworker and he threw me another PC for free just for the screws and Sata cables ETC ETC. This was pretty recent. So I feel 45 is worth it for the two boxes he would have given me so far. Am I wrong? Or am I just being a push over?

EDIT: Plus he gave my the Keys for the OS of the first one and now this one as well. I don't feel like I'm being robbed. OR am I wrong? lol

[mepwm]

1 minute ago, Jorgen297 said:

thats like $25 USD dollars LUL

Could you quote where you figured out this price? I would love ot do some of my own research.

 

[AnnoyedShelf]

1 minute ago, mepwm said:

Okay cool. I offered him 45, only because he is a Coworker and he threw me another PC for free just for the screws and Sata cables ETC ETC. This was pretty recent. So I feel 45 is worth it for the two boxes he would have given me so far. Am I wrong? Or am I just being a push over?

You're not really wrong, but a CPU that old with only 2 cores really isn't worth that much anymore.  Could be I just got a really good deal.  Do what you want man, it's your money in the end.

[mepwm]

Just now, Jorgen297 said:

i'm just mocking the canadian dollar, 100% made up in my head

Ah alrighty, because I'm paying USD. Our bill hasn't plunged.....yet. Just wait until the 9th of November.

[paddy-stone]

10/100 ethernet, nope... you would most likely end up spending more on this fixing it up, than to just go with a modern dual core cpu, cheap mobo etc.

[mepwm]

1 minute ago, paddy-stone said:

10/100 ethernet, nope... you would most likely end up spending more on this fixing it up, than to just go with a modern dual core cpu, cheap mobo etc.

Why would I be worried about a bottleneck on a home network for just personal media or storage? Not exactly running a media group here.

[paddy-stone]

13 hours ago, mepwm said:

Why would I be worried about a bottleneck on a home network for just personal media or storage? Not exactly running a media group here.

Well for one thing you didn't mention how many people or devices would be connecting. Another would be slow transfer speeds.