How much is this PC Worth ?

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So my friend wants to build a new PC and he wants to sell his current Pc to build a new one.
This is the Pc he bought last year: Link.

He changed his power supply and his graphic card there is about 2 weeks ago with the Corsair CX500 watts 80+ bronze and the EVGA FTW GTX 750 Ti.

How much is his PC worth now ?
 
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Pc's are a lot like cars, they lose value quickly especially since the market is so rapidly changing. Tomorrow's top of the line $500 graphics card will soon be yesterday's $250 mid grade gpu. I've seen one of two things happen. Usually value falls off rapidly even after a year and is of most value to the original buyer so long as they keep it. The other thing that can happen is key hardware can keep demanding higher than worth price even used to the point buying brand new and better performing versions can offer better value than buying used, although that's much more rare.
 
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True. It may sound quip or smart alleck but that's often the most generic and the most accurate answer anyone can give to any question that asks 'what is xyz worth'. It's worth what someone is willing to pay for it. More true when it's not a collector's item that's been commonly sold within a specific price range and difficult to assign a hard value to. If you have something listed at $300 and someone buys it, then to them it was worth $300. If you have 10 people who pass it up and would only buy it at $150 then it's only worth $150.

In a sense, most things aren't worth what they're sold for to begin with retail or so many people wouldn't be passing items up. 5 tv's of various brands on a shelf at varying price ranges, the one someone buys (even if it's not the lowest price) is bought because of the value they assign to it at a price they find is reasonable.
 
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For instance, here's the same build using the same spec'd parts. Chances are this build uses a better psu, nicer case etc than the prebuilt one. Everything is brand new including 'gaming' mouse and keyboard, 8gb ddr3 1333, 500w psu, same cpu, dvdrw everything and win 8.1 for $462. Not to mention the pre built pc made more profit due to buying components in bulk.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-4300 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor ($87.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M LX PLUS Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($38.89 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill AEGIS 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($60.98 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($36.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R7 240 2GB Video Card ($54.99 @ Micro Center)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case ($29.97 @ OutletPC)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($29.99 @ Micro Center)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD/CD Writer ($14.98 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.75 @ OutletPC)
Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator - OEM Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse ($17.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $462.52
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-01 00:13 EST-0500

A used no name keyboard and mouse likely has little value. The psu probably isn't the best quality and will likely need upgraded and that graphics card wasn't much of a 'gaming' card a year ago new (a year ago around christmas I bought the hd 7850 and back then it was a mid range gpu - and is far more powerful than the r7 240 and still isn't enough for most modern games). It's likely a budget motherboard that may or may not allow much overclocking of that cpu. That's why right around the $175-200 mark isn't far off for a used lower end gaming pc with no warranty left on it, an oem install of windows (which the buyer will have to buy windows again if they buy a new motherboard) and a years worth of use on all the parts.
 
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I'm from Canada, so part are more expensive :3
 
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Maybe, I'm not sure how the currency exchange is. After checking, that makes sense. It's not really that things are that much more expensive, it's that the canadian dollar is worth about $0.79 in usd. So if a part costs $50 in the u.s., it's canadian equivalent would be around $64 canadian. Actually according to pcpartpicker, some items are less expensive. An i5 4690k cpu is running $220usd right now. In canada, it's $258cad. Using current conversions that means in usd it's costing canadians $20usd less.
 
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