do you guys think this is a good deal?

im trying to find a decent computer on ebay that has at least 1ghz to replace my 550 and i found this, but the guy has no picture and this is the only description:

[QUOTE]this system come with Pentium 3 1ghz, 384 mb sdram, 20 gig harddrive,cdrom, cdrw 8x/4x/32x, 64mb gforce 2mx200,ethernet card, 56k modem, windows xp professional edition. 3 open pci slot and 1 agp slot currently used by the gforce2. this computer is in excellent condition. im selling it because i bought a p4 2.2 ghz and i dont used it no more. please email me for any question to [email]npinedas@hotmail.com[/email]. i m unsure about shipping charges but i think its between 30-40 dollars. ill let u know.. the reserved auction is $100 ps by the way it has a 300 watts power supply , 2 open bay drives [/QUOTE]

i can probly get the whole thing for 250.00 with shipping. do you guys think it's a good deal? should i hold out for a better one? my computer has 550mhz 128 ram 32mb nvidia card, dvdrom, 4x2x24x cdwriter, ethernet, 56k, windows98, 1 open bay.... yeah prettttty cruddy. if i sell it i might get 50-100 off ebay.

so should i go for it?

edit* he wont respond to emails either.. the jerk :(

edit again* it ends tomorrow at 2:00 but i will be in school and can't access the internet.

go to a pawn shop

build your own.

the pawn shops in my area are crappy and dont sell much..

and it would cost more just to buy the parts.. 100 for processer, couple 200 mother board, etc - and i am a dumb**** who can't put a computer together

look at some of the other auctions to see what they charge for shipping. 30 or 40 dollars is vague and computers are fairly heavy.

shipping seems to be between 50 and 60$

i've decided to take axiom's advice and build my own. are there any online tutorials that will describe the steps necessary in building one and list the components that need to be purchased?

date a computer nerd for a while....

cyan are you available?

If you are completely new to building computers, I wouldn't suggest it.
For the most part it is very simple, and you COULD get by just fuddling around (This goes here, so that has to go there, etc), but some of the processes needed to build a comp from scratch probably shouldn't be handled by the completely inexperienced. However, if you do decide to go this route, im sure there are plenty of people on this forum, and others that would be willing to guide you through it, step-by-step. I don't know of any online tutorials offhand.

If you run a lot of systom-resource intensive programs (Basically any graphics program) you may want to consider stepping up your ram, and going with rdram. It's more expensive, but not too bad, and it gives a considerable performance increase.

www.pricewatch.com is a good site (although some shipping is high) that has most of the parts youll need.