What is a good price for this PC?
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February 29th, 2012
I was wondering how much you would pay for this PC.
It’s an HP Workstation xw8200
It’s a dual core 3.2 GHZ xeon (however it may be 2 dual cores, so say what price you would pay for dual core or quad core)
I would have around 4 gigs of ECC ram in it (the more expensive kind)
The video card is an HIS 5450 Silence, 512mb ram, 650mz clock
The hard drive would be a 146 gig SCSI drive, not sure how much to charge for a seocond one.
Anyways, how much would you pay? I’ve seen prices up to a gran and a half, but also a few hundred dollars.
It would have XP pro but can run vista and 7 easily.
It’s a great machine for design and audio work, I’d want to keep it but it’s not crossfire and I want 3 monitors XD
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Going by ebay about $200
You don’t really need crossfire to run multiple monitors you just need enough outputs for all the monitors. Crossfire (and SLI) is designed to use multiple graphics cards to run one monitor.
@Lightlyseared Well, to have 3 monitors I need 2 vid cards, so a crossfireboard would be needed since I use 2 different ones currently.
Also, I saw one with pactically the same specs for 700 on one site, why do they have them so high if it would only go for around $200 (by ebay’s/your price)
@XOIIO Sorry but you’re wrong. For one a HD5450 has 3 outputs and supports 3 monitors (not in eyfinity mode if one of the outputs is a HDMI but you you still connect 3 monitors) And 2 the point of crossfire and SLI is to allow to graphics cards to share data so that they can split the work of rendering a 3D game on one monitor (usually a very high res screen or to get a frame rate over 120 for a 3D screen these days). If you don’t want to do that, say you want Word on one window, internet on the second and video on the third for example, you DO NOT NEED the cards to be connected to each other. As long as you have the available slots on the motherboard for the card (and a suitable PSU) it will work and given that you can still get PCI graphics cards I’m sure you can find something that will fit.
@Lightlyseared Crossfire actually is just for 2 video cards, SLI cards are for data sharing. This computer only has one PCI e slot on the MOBO, and I have a way better video card on this one that has 2 DVI outputs, but all my monitors are VGA so I have adapters.
I would not pay more than 400 if it was new, so 200 for a used one seems reasonable.
I configured one with a quadcore i7 and 16gig ram for less than 600 € (without a case or graphic card, because i have those already.)
Also, after just looking it up, the HIS 5450 costs 30€ and a cheap case is 20€, so even with those, it is still less than 700.
The case is the regular workstation one, it’s actually really nice, thick metal sides and frame and locks.
Crossfire is AMD’s version of nvidia’s SLI. They both do exactly the same thing.
meh
crossfire is more compatible with totally different cards then, from what i hear/have seen.
crossfire is compatible with AMD card. SLI is compatible with nvidia cards. Yes Nvidia cards are totally different to AMD cards.
@Lightlyseared Well, whatever this setup is I have AMD and nvidia in it.
Thats just having two graphics cards and is not crossfire or SLI. Just plain old multiple graphics cards.
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