Found this PC at a pawn shop for $750. Is it good?

[charliep2]

I know little about computers but this one at a local pawn shop caught my eye. At first they wanted $1000 for it but I asked if they'd take $750 and they accepted my offer. This was the only nice looking computer that they had. All of the other ones looked pretty bad.

I took a few pictures.




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Is it good? Do the pictures convey enough information to tell? I plugged it in. It lights up orange on the inside. It has Windows 10 installed and nothing else. I checked the space and it has a ton of space. Like around 7.45TB. It has a smaller drive too which has 232GB of space. I'm coming from a computer that has 100GB of space. It's crazy how far computers have come since 2006 when I last bought mine. It won't even hook up to my monitor. I have to hook this up to my new 4K television via HDMI.

I'd like to play games on it if it's capable. Oh and I almost forgot to mention. This thing is heavy. I'd say it's at least 50 pounds.

 

[axemastersinc]

I got this from https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/my-computer-details

Processor Core i7-5775C

Video Card GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

RAM 16 GB

 

[axemastersinc]

The GPU alone is worth that much. Do you really not know that or are you just trolling?

 

[migillicutty]

Don't buy a used PC from a pawn shop for gaming, you will be disappointed at best. If you want a gaming rig, research the hardware you want/need and build one yourself.

 

[Madmaxneo]

I keep getting blue screens every time I try to run 3dmark and my computer restarts. I've been trying to run 3dmark for a while now. Also it says this about my processor in the only test I was able to complete, "With an extremely low single core score, this CPU can barely handle email and light web browsing. Finally, with a gaming score of 14.7%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is very poor." It seems OK at browsing the web though but every time I run 3dmark I get that blue screen. It smells like something is burning in the computer and the fans are very loud. I turned it off.

The PC has issues. If you have any good friends that know about PC's you should have them take a look. The MB looks to be water cooled and there is the possibility that the water cooler is starting to fail. Open the side door and take a good look at the MB and the water cooling unit. Look for water stains anywhere and even look on the board for burn marks or any sort of odd discoloration. Take pics and post them but try and make sure they are decent quality.
With the water cooling and the message you got from running the CPU tests I would say that whomever had the CPU before overclocked it till it broke. If the GPU is still good you still got a great deal, even if most the other parts are bad. But if the previous owner OC'd the GPU and damaged that then you may not have gotten such a great deal.

On Pawn shops, they do not always know what they are looking at. If they do not have a resident computer expert then there is a chance they didn't know what they have, even then it is doubtful.
I purchased a laptop off of a local pawn store/computer repair shop. I got it for $180 and spent maybe $40 repairing it (needed a new keyboard and mouse pad). and the laptop brand new was about $600 at the time when I got it from the Pawn shop. The bad thing is they had a computer repair shop in store. I had applied for a job there a few weeks before that and they told me they had a guy they just hired, my comment was that I probably knew more or could fix computers better than him..... Their reply was "I hope not", looks like I was right....lol.