Is this PC worth buying? "Used PC"

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How much would you pay for a PC with these specs? A friend of mine doesn't need it and wants to sell it to me.

Intel i7-3820 Quad Core 10mb 3.6Ghz LGA2011
ASUS Sabertooth X79 ATX
Mushkin Enhanced Redline Frostbyte 16GB (4x4GB)
Corsair H100 Extreme CPU Cooler System
EVGA Geforce GTX 680 SLI (two cards)
Intel 520 Series 180GB SSD
Coolermaster HAF X case
Seasonic X-1250 80+ Gold Modular PSU
Blue LED's and fans
Windows 10 Pro

 
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I just got my Corsair H105 cooler not long ago. Now I'm worried it won't last long after reading your message. I would only buy that PC for around $500 to $600 max. It's not a bad PC but...
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I'd be slightly wary of that Corsair H100, given how old it must be by now, knowing how quickly AIO water coolers degrade over time. My H100i was brand new a little under 2 years ago, and is now completely unusable.
Besides that, I don't know anything about the value of used stuff. That PSU sounds like it was pretty expensive.

Try searching ebay for how much all of these would cost used, on average, skip the fans and the OS, and add it up? If it's a friend, maybe you can undercut it slightly, asking him/her how much s/he would part with it for.
 
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I just got my Corsair H105 cooler not long ago. Now I'm worried it won't last long after reading your message. I would only buy that PC for around $500 to $600 max. It's not a bad PC but it doesn't compare to something newer. If he wants 800 or more out of it then you should just build one.
 
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My H100i sounds like a drowning man every time I boot my PC. The gurgling from air that has gotten into the system has gotten pretty bad, but it isn't leaking. It's been pretty much spot on 22 months, and the temps with that thing on the same CPU (4825mhz @1.56v athlon 760k), is worse (thermal throttling at 81C) than my el cheapo hyper tx3 (thermal throttling but holding 76C), whereas it used to hold load temps at about 45C under Prime95 small fft's for about 2 hours.

In my opinion, AIO coolers are great when they're new, but when they fail, they become a rather expensive, cumbersome paperweight. Or a really fragile dumbell. That approximate 2 year lifetime for AIO's sounds about right, compared to both my h100i and my friend's first gen h110. We both bought our coolers within a month of each other, and both have failed within a month of each other. The pumps still work and there are no leaks, but they're just noisy as hell and don't cool anything properly.
 
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