How much my computer worth?

Used pcs are much cheaper then when they are brand new. You can expect 500$ - 600$ from that rig, plenty to buy a notebook

Generally you can expect somewhere around 60% of the cost new, assuming it's not obsolete tech and 'new' costs currently aren't "new, old stock" which are dramatically more expensive than they should be*. Also assuming you've got quality components throughout.

I don't know anything about that PSU, so my gut feel is it's maybe not the best, which will reduce it's appeal to anybody who knows what they're talking about (and you'll be negotiated down from any asking price).


*Your CPU is an example of the "new, old stock" situation. An i5-2500 (locked mutli) is $300 at the moment 'new', not a fair comparison and the CPU is not worth that.

Looking at your build, the GPU ($250 new) and monitor ($300 new) are the only things that jump out at me as having any real value in 2016.

I'd expect to see this listed around $500-$550, but I'd also expect it to sell somewhere around $400 in the end.

As JackNaylor has mentioned, a gaming laptop is going to be out of reach with the funds raised from selling this rig. A $400 sale gives you around half the budget needed to pick up even an entry-level gaming laptop.

He might have underestimated slightly, but I don't think he's far off to be honest.

If you had a 2500k and a suitable motherboard for overclocking, it would hold it's value a little more.

You have an 'ok' CPU, one of the poorer Sandy Bridge chipsets (Z68 > P67 > H67 > Q67 > H61 > B65) , a questionable PSU and used storage.

Again, your GPU + Monitor are the only real valuable components (although your peripherals are worth something too).

Anybody looking at a locked 2500 isn't looking to pay much for it.

We have been building PCs for 25 years. I oft build similar PCs from parts that peeps leave behind when they do upgrades. I don't even try and sell them, just give them away. The monitor and GFX card are the only thing of value and w/o warranty, they have little of that.

I understand that you want to get a return on your investment but to be frank, the appeal of those parts will be low outside of those impressed by "what the PC looks like". Choosing quality parts which have value is an important step to those parts having resale value.

-With no OC ability, the CPU has little attraction to the used market. I understand you paid a lot of money for it, it goes for $300 today. But most anyone would much rather have a 4790k and that's only $223 brand spankin new with warranty. I wouldn't pay more than half that for a used one.

-With 2 x 8Gb being so cheap ($50) today, 2 x 4Gb has little value, 2 x 4GB 2133 RAM costs $36 new with warranty... while RAM typically has a lifetime warranty, it usually only extends to the original purchases.

-The 960 is a current generation card but is squeezed by the much cheaper 950 which has a much better price / performance ratio and the incredible price / performance of the 970. Most would take a new 950 over a used 960. If the 960 had decent SLI performance, it would have greater value but the fact remains the 960 is the 1st x60 card from nvida that when added to a 2nd one in SLI can not perform better than the x70 from the same generation. The 960 is the only card in nVidias lineup which does not perform as well as AMDs comparably priced card(s).

-The MoBo is outdated and eliminates use of any CPU w/ OC ability which might otherwise extend system life.

-The peripherals like the Devastator Combo and Cooler Master Tesseract are by no means "premium" items. The manufacturer's parts investment here was not based upon providing a quality product but on throwing on a lot of "bling" in to impress young or inexperienced users.

-The PSU is scary.

-A 27" monitor is a fine choice for 1440p, but at 1080p is too large resulting in a low PPI and a grainy image. While OK as a secondary monitor, I wouldn't use it for a primary one.

If you were parting it out, w/o warrantee extending to 2nd owner, I would only:

1. Offer ya half the value of new $36 RAM ($18)
2. Offer ya half the price of a new 960 ($95)
3. Offer ya half the price of a new 27" 1080p ($150)

So yes, I think the best thing would be to keep your PC. As was said by Barty, at best you'd get $400 and that would have to be by someone who sees all the LEDs as an attraction. Someone looking stricty at the components would offer less and that's less than half what it would cost for a gaming capable laptop.

Remember also that no brand that you'd actually recognize actually "makes" a laptop (outside fo MSI)

The vast majority of laptops on the market (94% in 2011) are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based Original Design Manufacturers (ODM), although their production bases are located mostly in mainland China.[2]

Major relationships include:[3]

Quanta sells to (among others) HP, Lenovo, Apple, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, Fujitsu and NEC
Compal sells to (among others) Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo and HP/Compaq
Wistron (former manufacturing & design division of Acer) sells to Dell, Acer, Lenovo and HP
Inventec sells to Toshiba, HP, Dell and Lenovo
Pegatron sells to Asus, Toshiba, Apple, Dell and Acer
Foxconn sells to Asus, Dell, HP and Apple
Flextronics (former Arima Computer Corporation notebook division) sells to HP

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Boutique gaming laptops sold at a huge proc premium are all based upon Clevo designs and you can get them for about 2/3 the "boutique" price by buying direct from a Clevo distributor or their retail arm "Sager"

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/clevo-guide-v2-0-faq-and-reseller-info.91510/

CLEVO is a large Taiwanese computer company specializing in laptops. While the Clevo brand name is perhaps not widely known, their products are re-branded and sold by known boutique brand OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers)… notably Sager, VoodooPC, Falcon Northwest, Eurocom, etc. They are also considered (by whoever knows about notebooks) to design and manufacturer the best of the best notebooks in terms of superior build quality and innovative designs.

Established in 1983, as an ODM (Original Design Manufacturer), they sell barebones ranging from laptop to portable computing solutions for both AMD and Intel processors. Clevo is one of the world's most preferred ODM partners and markets their products in more than 50 countries, and have established service centers in the USA, Germany, Britain, China, and Taiwan.

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I have to ask... OP, looks like you built (or had this built) within the past 18 months? How much did you pay at that point? What made you decide on a 2500 + H61 ? Unfortunately, I suspect you may have overpayed, and that's maybe impacting your expectation as to what you can get back out of it.

Computers tend to have a fairly low return on investment to begin with, even moreso when you build with older generation components. The high end GPUs depreciate rapidly, high end CPUs....people tend to hold on to until they're generations old and not worth a whole bunch. Only the low end holds their value, relative to new costs as they're cheap & functional.