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Brother wants to trade a computer on Craigslist
FyreWulff
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No, I'm not building one for him. Neither of us has money.
He bought a laptop a year or two ago, and discovered down the line that he doesn't really like laptops. He wants a desktop he can buy upgrades for.
He mostly wants to play WoW, and have it be upgradable enough to play C&C4 when it comes out.
His laptop:
The desktop being offered for trade:
Yeah, I think we'll tell him just to keep the zip drive. Thoughts? It seems at minimum at least a trade straight across - slightly less CPU power but a later generation of GeForce. I need other opinions, though.
edit: for the record he likes how WoW plays on my computer: a nVidia 7800GT with a dual core Athlon 64 4200+.
He bought a laptop a year or two ago, and discovered down the line that he doesn't really like laptops. He wants a desktop he can buy upgrades for.
He mostly wants to play WoW, and have it be upgradable enough to play C&C4 when it comes out.
His laptop:
nVidia GeForce 7000M / nForce 610M
Conexant HD Smart Audio 221
100GB HDD + 12GB recovery partition
ATHLON 64 X2 TK-57 1.9GHz
1GB RAM
3x USB 2.0
Windows Vista Home Premium
DVD burner
The desktop being offered for trade:
Intel Pentium IV CPU HT 2.8 GHz and 2.79 GHz
1.25 GB DDR400 RAM (DDR2)
DVD R/RW/RAM
Secondary DVD ROM Drive
250 GB SATA HDD
40 GB EIDE HDD for backups
NVidia Geforce 8400 - 512 MB Graphics
15.6" Widescreen Monitor by Acer
iOmega Zip 100 Disk Drive
3.5" Floppy
8x USB 2.0 (6 in back + 2 in Front)
iPod Nano 8GB
Yeah, I think we'll tell him just to keep the zip drive. Thoughts? It seems at minimum at least a trade straight across - slightly less CPU power but a later generation of GeForce. I need other opinions, though.
edit: for the record he likes how WoW plays on my computer: a nVidia 7800GT with a dual core Athlon 64 4200+.
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CPU ain't great, but it should still cope with most stuff you throw at it, memory can be upgraded, hard drive size is plenty.
Couple of things to check tho:
The Geforce 8400 Graphics Card on the desktop could quite easily be onboard graphics - check whether it is or not, and if it is onboard, make sure the motherboard has a spare PCI-Express x 16 slot, otherwise you will be truly scunnered when it comes to upgrading.
Also make sure you get a legit copy of Windows XP or Windows 7 with it (don't think Vista would run terribly well on those specs).
If it doesn't have a PCI-Express Slot, or doesn't come with a proper copy of Windows, I would pass on it, sell the laptop and buy something newer instead.
Thanks for the help, Spam - I'll tell you how it went once we get back.
All of it. Every piece.
CPU for trade on craigslist just raises so many flags it would be foolish not to.
For the love of god I can't stress this enough.