Was this computer good back in 2004?

[jokijoca04]

Hello,
Today i want to ask was my pc good back in 2004.My dad paid around 500 bucks for it.Was it worth that money?I couldn't benchmark it now because i am busy.Here are the specs:

Intel Celeron 2.4 Ghz(Northwood) with stock cooler

Asus P4S8X-X

1Gb ram

PowerColor Radeon 9600 pro 256mb vram

80Gb Hdd Samsung

520W Chinese PSU
LG DVD/CD Reader and floppy drive

Windows XP SP3

Thanks in advance.

 

[13thmonkey]

Was it worth 500, i'd say yes, it wasn't top end by a long long way.

 

[Groveling_Wyrm]

In general, the answer would be no. That computer lacks in RAM, GPU, PSU, and CPU power. It barely even meets the minimum requirements for Windows 7. It could not run Windows 10.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

$500 for a PC with only 1GB RAM? - - even in 2004 that was nowhere near enough - - not good value at all.

 

[cryoburner]

If the question is whether the system was worth $500 in 2004, then I would say yes.

1GB of RAM was actually above average in 2004. Most systems only had 512MB at the time. Some high-end enthusiast systems had 2GB or more, but 1GB was more than enough to run any game at the time. A Radeon 9600 Pro was lower-mid-range, and the Celeron was lower-end.

By today's standards, the system is pretty low end, and not worth much, but in 2004 it would have been worth at least $500.

 

[13thmonkey]

According to this: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/11/how-cheap-ram-changes-computing/

1GB of Ram would have cost somewhere between 100 and 1000 in 2004 (scale is log so tricky to pin down) but lets say 100, for 20% of the overall cost of the machine. My machine from Uni running 3.11, only had 24MB of ram.

 

[guanyu210379]

Back then in 2004, I was still running around with Pentium 3 800eb with 512MB RAM, 20GB HDD and GeForce FX5200LE.
hehehehe...
Man! it was a long time ago.

BTW,
I think your Celeron PC is not that bad for USD500. We are talking about the USD500 back then yes? If you bought that PC for USD500 today...well...someone tricked you.