Opinons on Selling Gaming Laptop

jonbrout

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Looking to sell my used NP9262 Gaming laptop, Always cleaned, good condition, (minor crack where screen is connected to base on right side) The screen stopped working a little bit ago and I have no idea what it is. Likely a minor fix. Great for parts or as a whole. I am looking for some input on what it would be valued at. I could use a little spending money for Xmas. Thanks so much for your time!
Specs:

Operating System
~Windows Vista Home Premium 64-B
Battery
Smart Li-ion Battery (12 Cell)
Case
Basic Black Business Case - Incl
Sound Card
Sound Blaster Compatible 3D Audio
Camera
Built in 2.0 Megapixel Camera
Wireless Network
Built-in Intel® PRO/Wireless 530
Bluetooth
Internal Bluetooth + EDR
Memory Card Reader
Internal 7-in-1 Card Reader
Raid
Raid 0-Stripe (Combines primary
Secondary Hard Drive
~ 250GB 7200RPM (Serial-ATA II 3
Primary Hard Drive
~ 250GB 7200RPM (Serial-ATA II 3
Optical Drive
~Combo 8x8x6x4x Dual Layer DVD
Exterior Finish
Custom Fitted Laptop Skins
Ram
~ 4,096MB DDR2 800 (2 SODIMMS) D
Video Card
SLI ENABLED DUAL nVidia 9800M
Processor
~Intel Core 2 QUAD Q9650 3.0GHz
Arctic Silver
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
Display
17" WUXGA "Glare Type" Super Cl
 
With the screen not working, you don't know if it's a video card issue or not. Does the laptop work OK with an external monitor?

Are those cards actually SELLING for $150 or just LISTED for that much? It does seem that the single one of the 9800M has sold for about $75 and there are a ton of watchers for the SLI version for $170.

If I was going to buy a system with a bad screen, of that age, with that CPU, if the system was working fine, I would maybe pay $150 for it and likely less since whoever gets it has to deal with issues that an older system would have, finding and replacing the screen, older and more likely to fail hard drive, worn out keyboard, etc.. . A lower end gaming system now with a 940m is just as fast if not faster and you can get new ones of those for about $600. So a used system that is %100 working that is old would be half that at most. With a dead screen, you have half of that.