First post, by hurrication
Hi, all. First time poster here, but I've been reading posts on this forum for quite a while and found a lot of good tips here when I was building my 98SE pc.
I'm an oilfield worker, and if you haven't had your head in the sand for the last few years you will know that the oil industry is almost dead here in the states. I'm preparing for my job to be gone in a few more months and that means selling everything that's not a necessity so I can have the money to move where there are jobs.
One of the things I'm planning on digging out of storage and unloading is my "high end" 98SE PC and my entry level 98SE PC, and the reason I'm posting is for some insight and advice on what I should ask for my rigs. Obviously I'd like to get as much as possible out of them but I don't want to end up giving them away (figuratively) because at that point I'd rather just keep them. I spent a long time researching the best compatible parts and finding/purchasing each component new in the box for the "high end" ground up build. I have all the boxes for each component. I have been into PC's since the 90's and my first PC was a AcerPower Pentium 60 with two voodoo2's SLI, then I built a P2 450 system with an Abit BX6 2.0 and a voodoo3 3000 which later on evolved into a Celeron 400A system that I overclocked to just over 600hmz with a 105mhz fsb, and lastly a Gateway GP7-450 P3 450 system that I used up until the mid 2000's when I replaced it with a core2duo system. Building these 98SE systems was a huge blast of nostalgia for me and I really enjoy re-living the old days with all the old games and software I loved, but priorities reign supreme and I can always build another 98SE rig once I get settled somewhere else and find a new job.
The specs for the "high end" all-new system are:
DIYPC FM18bk case
Foxconn 915pl motherboard
Pentium 4 661 3.6ghz (with ht disabled) overclocked to 3.85ghz
Deep Cool Frozen-Ice dual 80mm fan heatpipe cooler
512mb Super Talent DDR 400
Sound Blaster Live x-gamer ct4760
Geforce 6800 GT PCI-e
16gb sata1 SSD (boot)
150gb 2.5" sata1 HDD (storage) with 120gb partitioned for compatibility in Windows
Samsung IDE DVD-Rom/CDRW combo drive
Bytecc 3.5" floppy with 5.25 adapter
Rosewill RNX-G300LX 802.11b/g wifi adapter
Rosewill 56k v.92 modem
Corsair CMPSU-400CX 80-plus 400w power supply
The entry level system, which was the first 98SE system I threw together since owning my Gateway GP7-450:
Dell Dimension 2400
Celeron 2.4ghz
256mb ddr 400
40gb IDE hard drive
16x cd-rom
Geforce FX 5200 PCI
56k modem
matching 17" Dell CRT monitor
I have been doing some research and found a guy successfully selling partially new p3 based 98SE systems on ebay and getting close to 400 dollars for each one! #111909565111 is the auction that he has active right now. Even my entry level Dell whoops his as far as specs/performance go, but I wouldn't think the value would be very high since it's a Dell. My ground up custom build, however, is literally about as fast as you can get with a 98SE build unless you found a way to get 98SE to run correctly on an athlon 64 nforce 4 motherboard with SLI 6800gt's.
Do you think I would be out of line to ask the same or more as the guy on ebay for my high end system? What do you think I could realistically get for my Dell? Any opinions are appreciated!