My machine died two days before I hit the road.

[Keith Smith]

Keep in mind I am not a hardware guy.  I look up different CPU's etc 
regularly to see how they benchmark and what attributes they may have 
such as cores, threads, and visualization.... so my feedback is from 
that perspective.

Hard Drives are cheap :  
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148840  I think 
this is the one I have in several of my Dell's.

Benchmarks pretty decent  :  
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Athlon+II+X4+620

CPU specs : 
http://products.amd.com/pages/DesktopCPUDetail.aspx?id=597&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

It will do visualization so running VirtualBox should not be a problem.

I assume the 4 in AMD Athlon™ II X4 means 4 cores, could be wrong.

This says 4 cores and 4 threads.  
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K10/AMD-Athlon%20II%20X4%20620%20-%20ADX620WFK42GI%20%28ADX620WFGIBOX%29.html 
  Nice!!

I seem to recall the Athlon run a bit hot - anyone else?  Is this true?

I like the case - lots of air flow.

The video card has 1G of memory which I believe means no sharing of RAM.

4G of RAM is good!!

The specs on the RAM you gave a link to show the RAM running at 800GHtz 
while the specs call for DDR2-1066, DDR3-1333  
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K10/AMD-Athlon%20II%20X4%20620%20-%20ADX620WFK42GI%20%28ADX620WFGIBOX%29.html

Not sure if that is a problem.

500 watt power supply is good because you will not be under powered 
especially given the video card power usage.

My experience is hardware can last 10 plus years.  With a new drive and 
something like Mint, I would guess this box could serve you well for 5 
more years which for $110 total cost including the HD sounds likes good 
deal.

Add 4 more Gigs of RAM and you could have a very nice work horse.

If you buy this box, I'd like to hear how it works out.




On 2015-08-02 08:07, Michael Havens wrote:
> the price is good even without the hard drive?
> 
> On 8/2/15, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> even without the hard drive?
>> 
>> On 8/2/15, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> For 60 it's fine. It will run Linux very well once you wrangle the 
>>> AMD
>>> drivers. That will be a touch special.
>>> On Aug 2, 2015 4:27 AM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm in Florida now and I have a University professor offering me a
>>>> computer for 60 dollars. He built it himself around 2010 and he 
>>>> gives
>>>> the specs (below). I wish I didn't have to ask but does it sound 
>>>> like
>>>> a good deal?
>>>> --
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>> 
>>>> ---  Case: Antec 300
>>>>       
>>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129042
>>>> 
>>>> ---  Motherboard:  Gigabyte GA-MA785G-UD3H
>>>>      http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3138#ov
>>>> 
>>>> ---  CPU:  AMD Athlon II X4 620 95W AM3 2MB Cache 2.6 GHz
>>>>       
>>>> http://www.amazon.com/AMD-Athlon-620-2600MHz-Retail/dp/B002MAPTFW
>>>> 
>>>> --- RAM:  Mushkin Blackline 996587B (2x2GB)  total 4GB
>>>>      http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146731
>>>> 
>>>> --- Video:  Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 1GB GDDR3  PCI-E,  
>>>> HDMI,DVI-I,VGA.
>>>>      http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102837
>>>> 
>>>> --- Power supply: Antec SP-500, 500 watt PSU
>>>>      http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817103937
>>>> 
>>>> --- Optical:  LG DVD -  R/W drive
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>> 
>> 
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>> 

-- 
Keith Smith