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Pricing advice for an older computer?
Priest
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So thanks to PC Build Thread, I built a new computer this month. Looking through my closet of old computer parts, I realized I had enough to build a functional system, reducing my backstock of parts and reducing the cost of my new system. Wondering if you all feel this is an appropriate price for selling an older computer?
Tower Cost: $520 (2011 Retail: $1810.00)
Monitor Cost: $80 (2012 Retail: $170.00)
Breakdown Below:
Tower Cost: $520 (2011 Retail: $1810.00)
Monitor Cost: $80 (2012 Retail: $170.00)
Breakdown Below:
Component - Name - Resale - Retail
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CPU - i7-950 - $ 70.00 $ 300.00
4-Core, 8 Threads, 3.06 GHz
Overclocking Capable
CPU Cooler - Corsair H70 Water Cooler - $ 35.00 $ 110.00
Motherboard - Asus P6X58D-E - $ 65.00 $ 240.00
2 x USB 3.0, 6 x USB 2.0
6 x SATA 6GB/s, RAID
3 x PCIe16, 1 x PCIe1, 2xPCI
Memory - 12GB DDR3 1600 MHz (6x2GB) - $ 40.00 $ 300.00
Sound Card - Creative X-Fi Titanium - $ 30.00 $ 100.00
GFX - EVGA 660 Ti 2GB - $ 90.00 $ 310.00
Overclocking Capable
Hard Drive - 1 TB Samsung Spinpoint - $ 40.00 $ 70.00
PSU - Seasonic 750W - $ 45.00 $ 180.00
80+ Gold Certified
Optical - Asus DRW-24 - $ 10.00 $ 20.00
CD R/W/RW 24x
DVD R/W/RW 8x
OS - Windows 10 Pro - $ 50.00 $ 130.00
Case - NZXT Source 210 - $ 45.00 $ 50.00
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Sub:$520.00 $1810.00
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With Monitor $ 80.00 $ 170.00
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Total:$600.00 $1980.00
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At the end of the day I can get a Dell XPS on sale and throw a decent GPU (like a 1050 or even 1060) into it for like $600 or $700. Or less.
It's hard when you realize the computer you spent $1500 on a couple years ago has depreciated into nothing, but yeah that's how it goes. Like a GTX 660? I'm not sure I could give one away. And when I told a buddy I was having CPU bottlenecking on BF1 he just straight up gave me his old AMD mobo/CPU/RAM.
I'm at the point where old rigs either get sold to a broke friend for a hundred or two so they can play some new game with me (on low settings) or they just get repurposed. One is a Plex server. Another functioned as a "guest PC" for LAN parties and game nights.
I would say that if there's someone you can give that to, as stated above for a younger family member as a first computer or something like that, or even maybe consider donating to a charity or non profit. But you won't be selling it for anything appreciable.
Yeah if I were selling that tower I'd probably go $200 or $250. I mean the case, psu, and Windows license (?) have value.
Anywho, it lasted about a day on Craigslist, sold the tower by itself for $500, the Monitor to another person for $60. Lots of College students in my area who need computers quick when they break an old one.