Just a random question: where do you live? Because both scenarios have the graphics chipset being ~5 years out of date (with the chips themselves being 8-9 years old).
China, the reason why I switched computers is because my old one died, so I got this second hand one at a relatively cheap price. My previous computer I got in 2003 in the US, had a 2.4 GHz P4, 384 MB of RAM and a Radeon 7500 with 16 MB independant memory (not integrated). My current one has an Athlon XP 2000+, 752 MB of RAM, and an integrated Radeon 7000. This computer is actually from the same era but it was originally a lower priced design.