Friend is offering me a PC, is it any good for the price?

[APotatoCalledJoe]

As the title says, a friend is willing to give me a new "gaming PC" and I simply want to check if it's any good for the price he's offering.

The specs he gave me:
Graphics Card: Geoforce GTX 660 (barely used)
Hard Drive: 60 GB internal Solid State Drive
Ram: 8GB (2x4) G.SKILL Ripjaw Series
Processor: i3 "sandy bridge" 3.1 GHz Dual Core
Case: Cooler Master Elite RC-430 Black Steel
Power Supply: Plus Cooler Master eXtreme Power 500w
Motherboard: BIOSTAR TZ77XE3

The price is just under $300. Any answers are welcome!

 

[ryguybuddy]

Yeah, for that price it is good. Just make sure to get an additional HDD or SSD because 60GB can't hold more than Windows 10.

 

[APotatoCalledJoe]

Ha, wait, may sound like I don't know what I'm doing for going on craigslist, but you get some good stuff sometimes. Anyways, found this for $60 more, how about it? Just compare the two I suppose.

Specs:
Model ....................................HP Z600
CPU........................................Dual Intel Xeon x5570 @ 2.93Ghz CPUs (Each quad core, 8 cores total) The poster means 2 cores total.
Video......................................NVIDIA Geforce GTX 950 SSC (Super Super Clocked)
RAM.......................................12GB DDR3
Hard Disk...............................1TB
Optical Drive..........................DVDRW/CDRW Combo
Operating System..................Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
Warranty................................6mos
Other.....................................mini HDMI, 7x USB ports, Wi-Fi, Gigabit Ethernet, 650w power supply

 

[bignastyid]

I wouldn't pay $300. $150 tops. SSD is too small, old i3, and a garbage quality PSU.

 

[captaincharisma]

its a 5 year old CPU, an old GPU and only has a 60GB SSD drive which means it you will have next to no space to fit anything besides the operating system on it. a computer with those specs are not going to be able to play next to no modern games. i'd say it should be under $200.00. your friend may be putting a premium on it because they put an SSD drive in it but a60GB SSD drives don't cost much anymore

 

[APotatoCalledJoe]

Okay, friends PC is out of the question, got it. But how about the second one from craigslist, is it any good?

 

[tsnor]

It's not bad at all for $300 if the gameplay is OK for you.

Assume legal win10 = $100.
Video $100
Rest of PC for $100 is a steal.

Very large value buying from a friend where you know the parts do not have known intermittent fails. Paying $300 for the same PC on ebay would not be a good deal.

 

[tsnor]

Okay, friends PC is out of the question, got it. But how about the second one from craigslist, is it any good?

FWIW i'd rather have the friends $300 PC then anything on ebay used. Just the hassle of mailing both ways if it is not working well would kill me. Not sure why you are moving away from the $300 PC.

If you want higher framerates now, then buying the $300 is a waste. You'll end up tossing the video card minimum.

If the PC games the way you'd like for a year or two then buy it. Getting something much better means $100 for windows, $150-$200 for video then another $150-300 for case/PSU/Memory/disk, etc.

Good luck whatever you choose.