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suburb · May 14, 2012, 05:56:58 PM

Ceist, that dell is stuffty but I have certainly seen them before. I am roughly guessing it has a pentium 4 processor with 1gb of ram or so. I am just guessing from seeing that at my friends house.

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Ceist · May 14, 2012, 06:00:53 PM

Quote from: suburb on May 14, 2012, 05:56:58 PM

Ceist, that dell is stuffty but I have certainly seen them before. I am roughly guessing it has a pentium 4 processor with 1gb of ram or so. I am just guessing from seeing that at my friends house.

A gig of ram could land me $6, how fast would you guess the processor is? Everything is covered up and I'm still trying to get rid of all the stuffty dust.

KoopaScooper · May 14, 2012, 06:03:25 PM

Actually, those computers came with 512MB of ram or the optional 2 x 512MB DDR PC2700
The Pentium 4 was also optional, and the standard was a Celeron.
I own two of the generation that came from and they served well.

Ceist · May 14, 2012, 06:05:47 PM

I re-looked over it, just realized the RAM is missing. The fans could get me a $1 each. I think that's the only thing worth. I'll keep looking.
The CD drive could land me $10. I have to get $256-278 to get upgrade/fix. The power unit can land me $16 idk though.

SPooK · May 14, 2012, 06:20:04 PM

Quote from: Ceist on May 14, 2012, 06:05:47 PM

I re-looked over it, just realized the RAM is missing. The fans could get me a $1 each. I think that's the only thing worth. I'll keep looking.
The CD drive could land me $10. I have to get $256-278 to get upgrade/fix. The power unit can land me $16 idk though.

Yea, based on the pictures there is no RAM.

This is what it appears to be. A Dell Dimension 4600.

According to the computer museum website,

"2004 Dell Dimension 4600, purchased on the Internet in March 2004 for $800 which includes tax and shipping. This Dimension 4600 has Windows XP Home Edition, a 3ghz Intel Pentium 4 processor with Hyper-Threading technology, a 120gb hard drive, a DVD ROM drive, a CD/DVD RW drive, a 1.4mb floppy drive, 8 high speed USB 2.0 ports, and separate video and sound cards. It originally had 256mb of RAM (PC2700 DDR333). I upgraded the RAM to 1gb (PC3200 DDR400) for about $120 after rebates. I also added a firewire card. The computer came with a 15 inch flat panel monitor. Pretty amazing statistics compared to a Kaypro 4 only twenty years earlier or a Dell 386SX only 12 years earlier!

That should give a better idea.

Edit:

Parts I could find that somewhat match the description.

CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116417 $30.99
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148690 $22.99
OD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118031 $19.99
OD2: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151244 $16.99

Notice however prices could vary when trading them in.