Is my computer good?

Question

I have a custom built computer built by my brother. It is in a black case with the top and the left side see threw with fans in the see threw part with lights, then in the front part it has blue neon lights on both sides on the front, with a strong blinking strobe light inside.
OK now it has 2 40gb seagate hard drives, the motherboard is a AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 1.40 GHZ, 512MB or RAM, its got 6 usb ports , two 10/100 network cards for high speed networking, then a CD-RW, and a DVD-R and CD-RW combo, a floppy disk, diamond monster 3dfx voodoo banshee graphics card, a mutimedia aduio controller, and much more it has windows xp pro rightnow but i have a windows vista home premium editon cd

please tell me if this is a good computer and how much do you think this is worth. THANK YOU

Answer 1

Dont waste your time puttin Vista in because your PC is far from capable of running it. Your PC is actually obsolete.

Answer 2

That sounds like a fairly old computer.

1.4 GHz is from 1999-2000, and if it's not 64-bit, then it really is that old.

512 MB of RAM is sufficient for office apps but hardly for gaming anymore, and 80 GB of hard drive space won't hold much.

This computer would have a hard time running Vista, even with the Voodoo graphics card. It will work fine for email, Internet, and word processing, but if you want gaming, music download or video editing, it's time to buy a new PC.

Answer 3

The computer looks cool and has its own light and view show. Wow. Very impressive. Your brother has talent. The computer itself, well, that is another story. Good enough for Windows 98 SE but a stretch for XP and a struggle for Vista. The graphic card is puny. Not enough RAM memory. Two hard drives? I haven't seen that since the pre-Pentium days. Has a floppy disk controller? Wow. Truthfully, you can find better computers and cheap too at http://www.tigerdirect.com/

Answer 4

first off its not bad but with a few tweeks it will be great first thing upgrade the amd to aleast a 2.5 ghz the add another 512 stick of ram get rid of the 2 hard drives and replace with one 80 gig or better you only need one net work card i would go with an invida 8800 graphics card and for god sakes stay away from vista for 6 to 8 months to many bugs in it right now but all in all its a good system

Answer 5

That is pretty good. If it is used you cant get as much for it. Depending on how long you have had it, i would say it is probably worth $150 - $200, but since there is a fancy case, if you include keyboard/mouse/monitor it might be worth $250 - $300, maybe a little more with vista on it.

Answer 6

Its decent. My husband builds computers and this is a good computer, but it will be out dated in about 2 years (just like most computers out there). Custom built without monitor/keyboard/mouse, probably worth about $450. If you were just buying it at Wal-Mart in a package it would probably be around $250, but then it wouldn't have the graphics card or case, fans, and lights.

Answer 7

It is an ok computer. worth about $300 with monitor, keyboard and mouse. And that might be on the high side.

Answer 8

Good for what? Spreadsheets? E-mail? Video editing and high-end games?

It's probably adequate for all but the latter.

Answer 9

Its got a small processor, small memory, small hard drives. Its worth more to you than you could ever get if you sold it.

I would say about $250.US

Answer 10

The processer should be upgraded, if possible, to 2.2GHZ or above. The RAM should be at least 1GB. I don't know how much it is worth though. Maybe a 120GB hard drive too.