Considering selling my Gaming PC

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Faxulous

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Hello!

Basically I've been experiencing a few gaming problems with my PC and I just feel like buying a whole new pc because my current one is such a mixmatch of good and bad parts. Once you see my parts you'll see there many parts that are just bad. I want to know how much I would get for this and what's the best way to go about selling my PC (ebay as it it, ebay in individual parts etc.) or should I just actually try and upgrade it?

Specs:

AMD RADEON HD 6870
Intel i5-3570k
Asus P8Z77-V LX
Corsair 16gb vengeance ram 1600mhz
500GB Slow and cheap HDD
Zalman Z11 Plus
Super cheap and bad PSU

Thanks!
 
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Depending on what games you play and what settings you are on, nothing really needs to be changed aside from maybe a clean Windows setup. Replacing the drive and power supply is a good idea, then with that new deive you can get a clean Windows setup which often cures a lot of issues that people think is because of a slow PC.

While your video card is not the fastest, it's not close to being a "bad" card, although your CPU will handle a faster card if you like. The 970 as above may be a bit much, you can get a good speed boost with a mid range card like a Radeon 270X, 280, 285 (that should be out soon if it's not already).
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tsnor

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IF you go to sell used PC on ebay unless you have GREAT reputation your price is going to be very low.

Me, I'd upgrade. The CPU and MB are both excellent. Add new PSU ($50-$80), video card (gtx 970, $330) plus maybe SSD (512GB for $250 and you can clone current drive, or 256GB for $150 and leave some games on your current drive) and gaming mouse and you have a strong gaming system.

As you noted, if you do decide to sell on EBAY search ebay for systems comparable to yours and see what their asking price is. Then look at used PARTS prices and see if selling parts is a better idea then selling the complete system. Your MB, CPU and video card are all good and will sell at maybe 30%-50% of original price. Check for comparison prices on pulled parts. If you go the upgrade route you can still sell the 6870.
 
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Depending on what games you play and what settings you are on, nothing really needs to be changed aside from maybe a clean Windows setup. Replacing the drive and power supply is a good idea, then with that new deive you can get a clean Windows setup which often cures a lot of issues that people think is because of a slow PC.

While your video card is not the fastest, it's not close to being a "bad" card, although your CPU will handle a faster card if you like. The 970 as above may be a bit much, you can get a good speed boost with a mid range card like a Radeon 270X, 280, 285 (that should be out soon if it's not already).
 
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