hi im strapped for cash and want to know how much my pc is worth and would like you guys to tell me how much you would pay for it to give me some sort of idea. i was planning to sell it on ebay. Specs Antec 900 4gb hp 800mhz ddr2 dual core e8400 overclocked to 3.8ghz arctic cooling freezer 7 pro 500gb Samsung spinpoint F1 Hiper 620w PSU msi p45 neo 3 22x samesung writemaster light scribe optical drive saphire 4850 512mb
Erm, what? If you put all those parts together new, they certainly won't add up to £800, let alone second-hand. Anyway, to the OP, you'd best part it all out. You'd get around £420 or so for the lot that way.
i didnt see the ebay part but those parts as new would be around 800 actually i reckon your right apologies lol
This is how it's usually calculated.. it's the price of new parts TODAY + some level of depreciation depending on how many years you used it, state of the machine (including dust and scratches), and weather if you overclocked the system or not. Computers are like normal cars, value disappears really quickly.
Trouble with whitebox PCs is ebay is flooded with them, so incredibley difficult to sell on there and gain any sort of good price. Just don't bother. Hotdealsuk - you'd be looking at £300-400 depending.. But remember, they haggle hard on there.. Bit-tech for sale forum.. Doubt you'd be able to sell the system complete.. Seperately would be your best bet, but would take a while. But you'd make the most money that way.. Providing you don't mind selling the bits over a few months. I may perhaps offer you £350 for it at the end of the month.
Stop kidding the guy, £1000 can get you a brand new i7 rig, not some used mid-range core 2 duo. I'd agree with Andy, around £350.
Lemme see: Antec 900 - £80 new 4gb hp 800mhz ddr2 - £30 new dual core e8400 overclocked to 3.8ghz - £110 new arctic cooling freezer 7 pro - £15 new 500gb Samsung spinpoint F1 - £45 new Hiper 620w PSU - Pass. £60 new? msi p45 neo 3 - Pass. £80 new? 22x samesung writemaster light scribe optical drive - £15 new saphire 4850 512mb - £80 new My (not 100% but guessing) prices put that at just over £500 new. How old is the machine? And more to the point, how much voltage have you had through that processor? That's the fastest way to wipe value off the whole machine - tons of voltage through the chip for an extended time. Unless the whole thing is as-new, £350 would be decent.
sell or give it to a buddy.. make sure you trojan it first and throw in a webcam- instant blackmail photos for when he acts a fool
its been used since last october its in supurb condition without even the slightest mark and was professionaly overclocked by novatech i have cleaned once or twice every week so there is no dust and ihave every single instruction manual and extras that came with it.
Sorry mate but these guys are right, I could build a more powerful rig with £500-600 anyway, your not gonna get more than £400 and thats if your lucky, second hand computers are treated with suspicion and rightly so, try a computer fair, someone may give you some decent money for it?
Even with that, it's still just a used PC in excellent condition.. It's a shame that PC parts depreciate so quickly after you purchase them. Not interested in a trade for a PS3 + 20 games + 10 blurays are ya?
Just out of interest Would you accept £350? - i wouldn't be willing to pay anymore than that though. Since i reckon it's a fair price. Also where do you live.. Any selling feedback from ebay etc?
That's 10 months of a high-enough overclock to make me ponder on the processor, possibly the RAM. And 10 months of power-strain on the PSU. Since then, the 900's been replaced by the 902, and the 4850 by the 4770. The wear-time on the HDD's negligent, but again, there's so many 500GB drives now, and 1TB can be had for £60, so that's the problem there. The cooler and DVD drive won't have lost much value at all, but then again, they're hardly massive in the grand scheme of things, though you'd still have to accept a drop on those for the new vs used issue. The 2 main problems you have are: 1) The vast amount of movement in technology since October (notably i7 and Phenom II) 2) That overclock. Not wanting to sound nasty to Nova (or indeed any other PC company), but they'll probably just whack in a failsafe voltage with their overclocks, rather than tweaking constantly, which could quite feasibly be far too high for the speed. Oh, and IIRC, all sales must be conducted within the Marketplace, which will open up to antec900 once he's made 75 posts. Best get some demotivationals/desktops/strong opinions at the ready, mate!
Although you're generally right (though not quite - the 4850 is still faster than the 4770), that's not why complete rigs don't sell well or hold their value more. All things considered, that overclock isn't going to make a great deal of difference; that E8400 will keep going for several years yet, by which time it'll be in the cupboard collecting dust or on eBay for £10. Anyone on here or eBay looking at buying a custom system will have enough technical knowledge to build it themselves, and are going to want to have every single component specced how they want it (for instance, I'd take the CPU, HSF, HDD, ODD but I wouldn't want that motherboard, case, PSU or GPU). In the market you're aiming at, no one is going to buy something they don't want or aren't happy with, and don't have the satisfaction of building themselves, all for the sake of a few quid. Hence, split the rig and sell it separately.
The owl's right, as per usual (though I still think the only way a 4850 ever gets a recommendation any more is when you need the fastest single-slot card on the market). If you split, you'd maybe get slightly more for your money. I still think AndyDEL's offer was decent enough to not worry about the extra you might make while not having the money up-front. Ah, accounting degree lectures are coming back to me... It's all subjective, y'see. Would you rather have £350 now, or hassle selling on a bit here, a piece there, until you'd made £375/£400 in a couple of months' time, by which the tech would have advanced more, and you might only make a few quid? FWIW, if you were splitting, I'd take the case and PSU for £110 delivered, and if I could squeeze the mobo in there for a cheeky £160, I'd take it. So, all you'd have to worry about (as long as the owl gets flush with cash) would be the 4850. If it's single-slot, you've got a better chance of selling it, tbh. Possibly also to me. *eep* However, get to posting. Although I could be wrong about only allowing sales in the Marketplace forum, I don't see why there would BE a hidden Marketplace forum if you could sell anything at any time before the 75 posts.
haha i love the way he hasn't even deided how to sell it yet and the cannibals are already moving in. "it'll be far better if you split it and then sell it..........btw how much for that cpu?" lolage
£350 i reckon, if someone on here offered that i would sell. (Why have i got 69dude under my name, hope thats not an offer) !
