Advice on trading console for custom PC

[rherdman]

Hi,

I've never posted here and don't know a thing about custom PC's. I have a big white xbox one bundle that I advertised and I was contacted about trading for a custom gaming and editing PC that the person claimed they have over 2k in. Here is what he said about it:

"It's a full size antec case total of ten fans has blue leds and fans are all three speed controllable Asus board with phenom black edition 3.0 ghz quad processor has a standard 250w power supply I had to take from a different pc. My 500 died. 8 gb ddr3 low latency ram supports Sata and ide devices. Has total of 8 usb ports. Audio ports all the good stuff. On board video card is a 440m I think. It's 756 card has a 600gb hd currently running Vista ultimate but I'll hook you up with a few other operating systems if you care to install them later. Fedora, win7, ubuntu, I think I also have a copy of xp too. I added a 802 dual band wireless card umm dual dvdrw cdrw lightscrive high speed disk drives I have a modified bios version on the system. It will also come with a true high def hp monitor supports dvi hdmi vga it's 23 inches. Also comes with a multifunction hp multimedia keyboard and a Razer gaming mouse."

I would greatly appreciate any advice you can give me as to whether to make this trade given the specifics of the computer. Thanks.

 

[J_E_D_70]

I don't think so.

 

[ssddx]

sounds like he has an x4 processor with integrated video on the motherboard.

old/low end hardware, likely a junk power supply.

definitely not a gaming machine and not all that great for editing anymore.

to be honest a used xbo is not worth a whole lot and you are not likely to do much better if trading up to a pc so it was a fair offer even if it is not a very good system.

if you want a gaming pc i'd use the cash from selling the xbox to invest in a new pc (or the xbo + cash towards a better more modern machine).

your choice of course but if it was me i say no-dice.