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jacob9hawkes

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Hi guys :)

I'm looking to sell my old desktop and get a new one. The spec for the new one is all sorted... But, I don't know how much my old pc is worth, and how much i should sell it for. Here's the spec:

Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX
CPU: Intel i5-3570K @ 3.4GHz (3.8 on Asus Optimal)
RAM: 8Gb Samsung (1333MHz)
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 550Ti 1Gb
HDD: 500Gb (7200 RPM and 16mb cache)
Drive 1: 24x dual layer dvd re-writer
Drive 2: 16x Blu Ray re-writer
+ an internal memory card reader (XD, SD etc etc)
PSU: 450W
WiFi: 300mbps PCI Card
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64bit
Warranty: 1 year collect & return, 1 year parts, 3 years labour


Its less than a year old (bought september 2012), and is from PC Specialist.co.uk. The warranty is fully transferable. they also provide an upgrade service for it.

brand new its worth about £790, but im really not sure how much the value of a good as new pc depreciates after 9 months. So how much should i sell it for?

Any help is appreciated :)
 
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mcnumpty23
personally if it was on ebay i would be looking to get it for about £300 or so

very good cpu but the rest of it isnt up to the same standard

dont forget if you bought it prebuilt for £790 then you could probably have built it yourself for about £700 or so
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jacob9hawkes

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I'd just upgrade what you have. A new PSU, GPU and some faster ram and it'd be a great gaming rig.

Hi :)

This is very true, and I have considered just upgrading the GPU only, but for some reason I fancy a change. I may not sell it at all, it really depends on how much i could get for it :)
 
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Well, the processor is very good. So is the mobo <- you don't need to sell them..
The GC is not so much suited for gaming, I'd suggest to sack it and get a 6xx / 7xx one. But You need to check if your PSU can handle it.
Add a decent sound card, an SSD as a system drive, faster ram, better cooler /in that order/ and you're roaring to go...
 
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13thmonkey

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fancy a change, buy a new case.

more power buy a new gpu

faster boot buy an ssd

no need to buy a new machine. I'd suggest about £300-400 ish.
 
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Well, the processor is very good. So is the mobo <- you don't need to sell them..
The GC is not so much suited for gaming, I'd suggest to sack it and get a 6xx / 7xx one. But You need to check if your PSU can handle it.
Add a decent sound card, an SSD as a system drive, faster ram, better cooler /in that order/ and you're roaring to go...
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fancy a change, buy a new case.

more power buy a new gpu

faster boot buy an ssd

no need to buy a new machine. I'd suggest about £300-400 ish.
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I would need a new PSU for the GC im looking at (GTX 680 4Gb). And yes i had also considered adding these things, but due to considerable time constraints (college, exams etc) I dont really have the time to do all that. It would be far easier to sell my current one and just order a new one with all the bells and whistles, as they say... Like i said, it really depends on how much this current system is worth. :)
 
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personally if it was on ebay i would be looking to get it for about £300 or so

very good cpu but the rest of it isnt up to the same standard

dont forget if you bought it prebuilt for £790 then you could probably have built it yourself for about £700 or so
 
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Very true... Would it be more worthwhile selling the parts separately?
 
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selling the parts seperately might be more profitable

but its more time consuming and more chance of getting one of those people who buy things and dont know how to fit

them and end up saying it didnt work and make you give a refund

sometimes your perfectly good item comes back broken and you end up out of pocket

i gave up selling high end second hand parts on a well known auction site because of people like that

now i only sell with collection only--no postage so they can see it works before they pay and make them sign a receipt

saying it was working when they collected it

 
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That's very good advice thanks :) i may consider that in the future. The biggest temptation im facing is to list it on ebay for maybe £600 and just see if anyone bites. I know it would be highly unlikely to sell that high, but it would be interesting to see how it did.
 
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yeah you could stick it on at £600 or best offer and get lucky

not everyone knows the value of what they are buying and i have sold things for way more than they should have went

for before

the average pc user just trots down to pc world and buys without really knowing what they are buying
 
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Absolutely. Also a shame because a good portion of what pc world sells is overpriced garbage (yes Advent, im talking about you).

It is tempting i have to say, but the problem is Ebay would charge a lot if it sold for that much. guess i could put an advert in the local post office or newspaper. Or on facebook even... Part of the reason im considering selling is my budget just got a lot bigger than it was 9 months ago, and i'd quite like to get the sort of spec i was after in the first place, but couldn't afford. I would just use the pc specialist upgrade service, but they dont let you upgrade the case due to warranty issues with the companies that make the parts (intel etc)
 
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yes the fees would be quite high--the thing with collection only and cash on collection only

is people dont normally press the buy it now button

they ask to come and see the item working first

ending the auction off the auction site is against their tos

so obviously i am not saying i have ever done that :)

 
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yeah ive noticed NO ONE uses buy it now, like, ever... but selling it myself through newspaper/facebook would eliminate the middleman and mean i make more of a profit, its true... And i wouldn't be massively bothered about showing that it works before purchase, know i would certainly want to know it would. I may well do that, now i think about it.
 
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you can fit a new psu and and gpu in about 30mins, tops. it'd take you longer to order the new one.

Its not worth more than £300-350.
 
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