What do you think my PC is worth (sell value)

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Beitzel15

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Reason for considering a sell:
I have a lot of money in my PC, I dont play many games at all, Battlefield 3/4 is pretty much it. COD every now and then. Just thinking about the next gen consoles and even though their graphics arent on par with my PC, it's not worth the $$ difference IMO. $500 xbox with good graphics for 8 years, vs a $2000 PC with awesome graphics for 2, MAYBE 3 years.

Anyways, Here's my parts: (PC is 4-5 months old)

32" LG LED TV
Corsair C70 OD Green Case
7 Cougar Orange Fans, 2 Corsair Fans (120mm)
Corsair h100i cpu cooler
Intel 3570k CPU
Geil 8gb Ram 1600
Asrock Extreme 4 motherboard
XFX Black Edition 7870ghz edition
HIS 7870 Ghz Edition crossfired ^
XFX PRO850watt PSU
OCZ Vertex 4 128gb SSD
Windows 8

I think thats everything. Now, are the PC's worth more because theyre already assembled and work? Or still worth less due to being used? Seriously answers please. I've got right at $2000 in this build.
 
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lowriderflow

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make sure the TV has a game mode, otherwise you might expereience input lag

the build is fine... I'd get some 2133 or 2400 RAM isntead of 1600.

PCs are worth less when they're used. People that are buying PCs like this, generally can build them themselves anyway... jsut saving some money going used.

7950 crossfire will save you $200 and give you the same performance... since you're only doing 1080p at 60fps, either 7950xfire or 7970xfire will be able to hold 60fps in anything
 
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USAFRet

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New parts always trump used parts. Even if put together just last week.
The buyer has no idea of who or how well it was put together.
 
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im not sure your logic is correct mate. you may get 8 years out of the xbox but you will get just as long out of the pc as long as you dont expect to play the latest pc exclusive titles at max settings.

also playing on a tv with 2 cards that will max out most games at 60 fps minimum you really need a monitor as your tv will have 2 high a response rate and probably is limited to 30hz at 1080p or 60hz at 1080i either way its likely crippling your build.

as for the price thats optomistic. without the tv your looking at less than 2k to build it new. the parts aint the newest either so your looking at roughly half that with 1 gfx card and maybe 1200 with 2. if you find the rite buyer.
 
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this aint an amd apu rig so the system wouldnt benefit at all from the faster ram. 1s you get up to 1600 for that cpu your at the max of what the cpu handles natively the rest of the bandwidth becomes spare and will only make a difference in benchmarks with higher numbers. in the real world the extra is unused thus wasted.


also why would he want to swap out 2 decent gfx cards for others when he's trying to sell...

 
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nokiddingboss

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this gets my absolute recommendation. thumbs up. besides even if you indeed sold your pc at lets say $1500 as the semi best case scenario, if you buy the xbone you'll still have spent a total of $1000 cold hard cash when you calculate your loss with the selling price of your pc + $500 for an xbone. and $1500 is a very generous offer for a second hand pc.
 
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USAFRet

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That has been up for over a month. Has he actually sold it?
Me personally, there is no way I'd spend $1500+ on someone elses build, with 6 month old used parts.

What you spent is irrelevant. What someone else will pay is the key.
 
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