Refurbished Acer Veriton S670G
- Intel Dual-Core E5300 2.6GHz
- 2GB DDR3 Memory
- 160GB Hard Drive
- DVD RW
- Genuine Windows 7 Pro License
- 1 Year Return to Base Warranty
Refurbished Acer Veriton S670G, Dual-Core E5300, 2GB, 160GB, Win7 Pro, ONLY $99 + Shipping
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Not sure it's a replacement - it's larger, will consume much more power, less hard drive space, and it's used. That's what refurbished means - used with a prior history of failure.
The CPU is Q1 2008.
Yeah it won't be replacing my HP Microserver 2 drives vs upto 6 interally on the HP. But it will be good for a HTPC to take the load off my HP and have it back as just as server.
"Refurbished means - used with a prior history of failure"
Ummm no. It COULD mean there was a failure but it could also be things like end of lease, company going into receivership or simply a company upgrading their office's PCs.This! Most companys will upgrade their PCs once the manufactures warranty runs out. Typically 3 years, but sometimes 5. The machines are still is working order, but they get replaced so companies can still call on HP/Acer/Dell/etc… to show up and fix it, rather than doing it in house.
End-of-technical-life is possibly worse than ex-repair. Computer parts aren't designed/built to last more than a certain number of years. Given that this is >5yr-old technology, there is a high risk of failure.
Only the HDD and PSU (which suffer the most wear and tear) will need replacing after 3-5 years of typical commercial usage; and typically they won't have outright failed but will show signs of impending failure such as Reallocated Sectors on the HDD or substandard voltages on the main rails. I have hard drives from 10 years ago that are still in working order.
Everything else will last a lot longer.
@Make it so some pretty strong claims here, any evidence besides "common knowledge"? Agree with certain number of years, but you have it sound like 3-5yrs where I suspect it is >10. Same with the high risk of failure.
Just ignore him.
Actually I deal with Business PC's all the time, including this model.
The motherboard often fails in this model causing all kinds of issues.
For $99 its worth it, but if you purchased 5 for example, I would be confident one of them would have a major failure in the next 12 months.
Well they have a 12mth warranty, after that happy to just keep the w7pro license if it explodes.
@jimborino: I work in IT. Reliability is a reasonably big thing in industry. Chances are these machines have clocked a lot of hours. Besides, what's wrong with "common knowledge"?
I'm only saying this because I don't want people to think they are buying something equivalent to a new low-end pc. Then after a year they come and see people like me saying "my pc has died and all my photos were on there, can you recover them?"
Acer's from around 2008/2009 weren't winning awards for reliability. I bought a laptop in early 2009 for someone, and Officeworks staff told me to stay away from Acer because "we get more returns from them than any other brand".For those who think they can use the license as a separate item: it's OEM - you can't.
@Make it so.
It was speculated that it is possible to use the OEM license in this thread.
HDDs can last much longer, I've got a 600 MB IDE hard drive that still works :P
@King Tightarse, there is a difference between possible and legal. It is most unlikely that this can be done legally.
Oh really?
I dont pretend to know, but I understood it involved calling Microsoft, thus was legal.
Not legal you reckon? Hmmm. Thats a bummer, it was a definite selling point for me. Oh well, still happy with it.@King Tightarse, I made this clear below when the deal was posted. Just because some poor Indian call center worker resets your key, doesn't mean the OEM licence is suddenly voided. You will be breaking the EULA by installing on other hardware, at which point why not just pirate Windows 7 anyway, it's hardly difficult…
I need a mini itx system for about this price…
The fact that this comes with a Windows 7 Pro licence definitely makes it a bargain.
That's what I was thinking. Buy it, dont even bother getting it shipped, pocket a legitimate win 7 pro key.
It's probably an OEM key.
Even an OEM key can be transferred, but it does require calling MS up about it.
No, you might get lucky and have a call center person do it, but it's not within the rules of the licence. If you're going to break licence, why not just pirate it?
I thought they had changed the OEM restrictions for Windows 7 as well when they released Windows 8 (which definitely does allow you to transfer the OEM licence to a new system), but looks like that's not the case.
If the motherboard fails and there's no replacement available, then it can be transferred, but you're right, it's against TOS to replace without failure.
I'd probably still get it shipped if all you wanted was the licence. The parts could easily be sold on OCAU/GumTree/eBay to cover more than the shipping cost.
How many drive bays does it have? it was hard to work out
2 internal hard drive bays inside.
http://www.connectingup.org/discount/refurbished-computers/a…
2 Internal. Hey REP, how many sata ports does the motherboard have?
Rep is the hard drive new or does that come refurbished too? Can we opt for a new drive?
The 160GB HDD is refurbished as well.
Sure you can add brand new HDD into this pc.price for an ssd upgrade?
Are "refurbished" and "used" the same?
In the website it says"Used"
Refurbished always means it has been used. But different organisations go through different levels of depth to "refurnish". For some, the product becomes indistinguishable from a new product (in appearance or even reliability, e.g. Apple). For most, it's nothing more than "ex-repair".
Solid machine, hard to fault for the price. CPU can overclock like anything but this mobo probably won't allow for it. Good for web browsing and with a HD5450 would make a fine HTPC. Takes DDR3 (not DDR2) so RAM upgrade is cheap.
Surprising warranty and the W7 Pro license is worth the machine's price alone.
Seems there are other places that have a similar model for close to this price with the 5200 processor … with options (extra ram etc being cheaper).
http://www.reboot-it.com.au/acer-s670g-mini-tower-pentium-du… (cheaper ram upgrade)
http://www.connectingup.org/discount/refurbished-computers/a… ($155 with office 2007 and window 7 pro)
Shipping is great for me as Im in 3196 so only $6.40 but others may want to google for other refurbs closer to them.
On reboot it, the ram upgrade is $5 more expensive than if you buy it in store? Labour for plugging in? 4GB DDR3 at MSY is about $38
Do you have paypass in store?
Order made, thanks rep ;)
FYI Postage to Brisbane 4000 was $25.80
Rep, does this have a hidden partition/restore disk to allow restoring to fatory settings?
Hi rep, does this come with built in wifi capabilities????
Will this support a a new graphics card? If I added a decent graphics card how would this go as a gaming machine?
Yes pretty confident (from reading not experience) that you can just slot one in.
It should be able to support a new graphics card, however even with a decent one it would still be a fairly poor gaming machine. The E5300 is just too dated to keep up, not to mention the limits of 2GB RAM.
Damn… delivery to Perth: $62.75
Found a copy of the service manual online. Assuming it's accurate, it has:
1 x PCIe 16x slot
1 x PCIe 1x slot
6 x SATA II connectors
4 x DDR3 memory slots
Intel 10/100/1000 ethernetThe PCIe slots aren't low profile which is useful. In addition to the 2 HDD drive bays, it also has 2 'external' 3.5" drive bays (e.g. for floppy drives) which should be fine for HDDs. Tempting given the price, especially with DDR3 support and the Intel Q45/ICH10 chipset (which supports RAID).
http://www.manualslib.com/products/Acer-Veriton-S670g-173612… (it's for the S670G and M670G).
Yeah after reading more about it and finding it has 4 DIMMs, 4 3.5' spaces for HDDs (plus the 5.25 bay if you take the DVDRW drive out) and full height PCI-E i grabbed one
ordered one. Thanks REP!
Great Find! 23 Ordered for a Call Centre that only needs to run Ubuntu! … I didnt see any message about minimum order but I could have missed it :|
You won't miss out. We're processing your order right now and it will be dispatched soon!
Its cool that you are re-using tech for your call center - keeps all this from ending up as e-waste.
Is the Windows 7 Pro OEM license or retail?
It's Win 7 Pro OEM License.
I'm assuming it will come with the serial number and documentation?
Does anyone know which would be better just for a pc needed for general use? This one or
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Fast-Dell-760-Core-2-Duo-E7500-2x…
the only problem with your ebay link is only accept DDR2, more expensive to upgrade compare to this $99 which take DDR3
Is it worth getting this over a steaming box for using xmbc on big tv? I was thinking of getting the Roku3 or an OUYA, but this seems to be a more powerful solution…
get the roku or the apple tv to save the environment. PCs pump out too much power.
A PC can do much much more though.
It depends if you are interested in cool extra things or you only want to do streaming/xbmc.
Streaming boxes = less noise, less power consumption, less heat
I agree that a streaming box is much better. WDTV Live would be my recommendation.
mmm steaming box!
You're just referring to like, a steaming box of noodles, right? That's the joke right? Right?
Shipping killed the deal for me, $41.70 to SA!
Odd…only $18.75 for me to SA.
Anyone know how this would go inside a MAME cabinet, any reason it wouldn't do the trick?
ordered but only got a paypal confirmation? Hope they got it!
I have very little knowledge of computers so I am trusting the 58 likes that this is a good deal to replace my broken one. Thanks.
It's a good deal for the tower only. The add-on's can be had cheaper elsewhere.
Anyone know if this system would be good enough as a HTPC? Would it be able to play HD movies without stuttering/skipping?
Running 1080p should be OK, one problem might be is that there is no HDMI port on the back, there is only analogue audio.
Definitely worthwhile springing for a NVIDIA GT610 graphics card for $40. I had a PC with a slower CPU than this as a HTPC and it never once stuttered at 1080p with this graphics card. ATI HD5450 is also a contender. I had one of these and it was OK but the drivers were crap so I got the NVIDIA.
What about adding USB 3.0 to these?
Difficult?EDIT:
Also, transferring to a larger HD when there are no windows disk and no shadow partition - what do people do? Borrow a copy and enter the serial?
Not really, you just add in a PCIE USB adapter.
Which is relatively un-co proof?
Am decent at electronics but have never done this before. No idea about compatibility and the various gotchas one encounters.Could try this
http://www.iibuy.com.au/vantec-ugtpc312-2port-superspeed-usb…These things are pretty much plug-n-play and using Windows 7 in most cases it'll just automatically detect your new hardware and offer to install drivers (download thru Windows Update)
To migrate to a new HDD, all you have to do is to use a disk copying app or Partition manager such as MAcrium Reflect Free or GParted to image / clone your hard drive to the new destination.
Once that's done you will have a identical copy of the original HDD's content on your new disk. Afterwards you should unplug your old disk so you don't end up booting into the 'old' copy of Windows.
Cheers scrimshaw.
Yep I guess, I just keep an image copy of the fresh install for future mess ups.
OK pulled the trigger and also rang the guys at budget PC.
There are 3 left as of now - get in quick!Now back up to $159.00
Hey rep, I still haven't seen a confirmation of my order. Has my order gone through?
If I have a monitor does that mean I will have a functioning computer?
LOL =)
Pretty much. Besides a mouse and keyboard.
Yes but not a fully functioning operator
Picked computer up this morning thank you VERY much to Brian at Budget PC what a top bloke.
Computers are in great nick folks. Extra clean and new-looking, look like proper manufacturer refurbs, not just clean-and-wipes. Happy.no confirmation from me either. What's happening rep?
got my package within 24 hours… haven't plugged it in yet but that was quick! so no confirmation email, only paypal confirmation…
Ok thanks.
Good find, for those looking for an HP microserver replacement on budget