Dell Inspiron 530
A Dell Inspiron 530 Desktop PC I picked up from a car boot sale with a bag of spare parts recently, I used to have a Core 2 Duo Vista system, but it died and was given away
A Core 2 Duo machine with Vista, this looks a similar spec to my old ACER Aspire desktop, according to the Internet it was available with a variety of options, so I won't know for sure until I boot it up
It has a card reader installed, it's probably over USB 1.1 like my old Acer Aspire, which meant I never used it
DVD Multi recorder
Windows Vista and Intel stickers
The sides of the PC
The rear of the PC, nothing special here
Close up of the ports
Bottom of the machine
Motherboard
PSU
Back of the hard disc and optical drive
Processor and fan assembly
I also got a bag of spare parts, this is a CD ROM drive
A Pentium II CPU
An IDE hard disc
Another IDE hard disk
A floppy drive in a mounting cage
Some ribbon cables
A stick of RAM
A PSU, no idea if any of these works
Powering up the PC
You'll all be pleased to know this PC works, but it's locked and I don't have the password, so it'll get wiped at some point
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