Buying Used System

[Supportsneedlove]

Hi I'm shopping around of a cheap secondary PC and I found one where thought the specs were quite good. Here they are:

RAM

4GB RAM (DDR3 or DDR2)

CPU

AMD Athlon II X4 640 3.00 GhZ (64-bit)

Graphics card

AMD Radeon HD6850 with 1 GB of GDDR5 SDRAM

And Windows 7 64Bit on a 400GB hardrive

The entire system only costs 84 USD. What do you guys Think of it?

[ProjectBox153]

I personally wouldn't call that a deal. I've gotten far better systems (like my i5-2400) for free. Where are you buying from?

[deXxterlab97]

4 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I personally wouldn't call that a deal. I've gotten far better systems (like my i5-2400) for free. Where are you buying from?

Well of couse everything for free would be better

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

Well of couse everything for free would be better

What I'm saying is that while yes, free would be better, I've seen far better deals for stuff better than OP has for sale around me. I'll soon be getting an i5-3470 system with a Radeon HD 6870 for free. You've just got to ask people you know, businesses you know. 

[deXxterlab97]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

What I'm saying is that while yes, free would be better, I've seen far better deals for stuff better than OP has for sale around me. I'll soon be getting an i5-3470 system with a Radeon HD 6870 for free. You've just got to ask people you know, businesses you know. 

He also lives in Denmark, where as far as i know from people I know, they don't have much of a computer hardware there

[bleedblue]

Regardless of price, I wouldn't recommend getting this one. There really is no upgrade path for this one, any modern GPU, even the 1050, you put on this will be severely bottlenecked by that Athlon. Also 4gb RAM and 400gb HDD...pass. I've seen waaay better systems for only 30-ish USD more.

[Supportsneedlove]

4 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I personally wouldn't call that a deal. I've gotten far better systems (like my i5-2400) for free. Where are you buying from?

Well I'm buying it from what is basically the Danish Craigslist. It's by far the best deal I've seen

[deXxterlab97]

1 minute ago, Supportsneedlove said:

Well I'm buying it from what is basically the Danish Craigslist. It's by far the best deal I've seen

i highly suggest saving up

[Supportsneedlove]

4 hours ago, bleedblue said:

Regardless of price, I wouldn't recommend getting this one. There really is no upgrade path for this one, any modern GPU, even the 1050, you put on this will be severely bottlenecked by that Athlon. Also 4gb RAM and 400gb HDD...pass. I've seen waaay better systems for only 30-ish USD more.

I might just be noobish but how isn't there an upgrade path for the CPU? It seems to be pretty standard for even a modern machine. I found an other Cheap PC that I can salvage some ram From plus some extra parts

[ProjectBox153]

2 minutes ago, Supportsneedlove said:

I might just be noobish but how isn't there an upgrade path for the CPU? It seems to be pretty standard for even a modern machine. I found an other Cheap PC that I can salvage some ram From plus some extra parts

This uses the old AM3 socket, and there aren't many upgrades for it, not to mention the better price:performance of a similar age Intel system. 

[Supportsneedlove]

3 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

This uses the old AM3 socket, and there aren't many upgrades for it, not to mention the better price:performance of a similar age Intel system. 

I was considering using it as a form of NAS, or just an extra thing in case I have to get my normal one fixed. Upgrades aren't really that important to me.

[deXxterlab97]

Just now, Supportsneedlove said:

I was considering using it as a form of NAS, or just an extra thing in case I have to get my normal one fixed. Upgrades aren't really that important to me.

Oh, I thought it would be a main PC. Then those specs and price looks fine for Danish used NAS

[ProjectBox153]

3 minutes ago, Supportsneedlove said:

I was considering using it as a form of NAS, or just an extra thing in case I have to get my normal one fixed. Upgrades aren't really that important to me.

For a NAS it'd do fine. Even a Core 2 Duo (which are more than easy to find for free) can saturate my gigabit network.