How much is my computer worth for resale?

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Nick_120

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How much is my computer worth for resale?, I currently have my gaming pc which I do use a fair bit, but I need to get something more practical and portable like a laptop or Intel nuc.

My specs:
i5 4690k @4.3ghz
1x8gb Kingston ram / 1x2gb unknown ram
XFX RX 480 RS edition 4Gb
Asus H81M-plus mobile
Corsair CX600 PSU
CiT dominator case
1TB seagate hdd / 500Gb Samsung hdd
Speedlink controller

I think that's the main stuff, it isn't portable at all, and isn't really practical as I need a small powerful portable machine for rendering and media tasks as of now for my course.

I paid around the £700 ($850-900) mark for it and the cpu and gpu are only 4 weeks old :/ but it isn't practical I guess I should of thought about it before hand
 
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Nick_120

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Whaaaaa really? I just literally paid that for my cpu and gpu just. 4 weeks ago.. I was hoping atleast $600 odd
 
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Nick_120

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Unfortunately no but I do have a 128GB SanDisk USB 3.0 as a boot drive can be quicker, I also have a pentium G3258 sitting round (7 months old) and a 750 ti sitting round (7 months old too) I need to sell I just want to get enough back for a half decent laptop or nuc
 
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Nick_120

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Build my pc for $600 I think you're * a bit now, considering I've seen many people with similar specs selling second hand for £500-600 ($750) there's no way I'm selling half the price of that
 
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im not, and thats why the pc industry make alot of money.
also watch your language.
 
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Nick_120

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Well thanks for the advice but I'm not gonna take it, I'll look into it on my own
 
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aquielisunari

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Let's take this slow. I'd not sell a 4690K for less than $150. They are selling used 4690Ks for $180 on eBay.

The CX series isn't all that great. $25 used.

Unknown RAM? Uhhhhhh no. That doesn't work. https://www.piriform.com/speccy/download WIll show you the specs. Click on RAM and see the details. If you posted this that would obviously be your Achilles heel. I can find it for $38 brand new. An 8GB kit. Sure, you have 10GB but an unknown? An off brand? Same timings, voltage and speed? $12

And it gets worse. You have a K CPU on a H81 board? So they have a chip that can overclock but a board that seriously restricts it? Another $25 for a board that used to be $60 brand spanking new. The 4690K belongs on a Z97 board.


A $30 case? $20

A Seagate 1TB drive can be purchased for $50. $30. A Samsung 500GB? New at $40. $20

Used $30 controller? $10.

$213 480. I can buy a manufacturer refurbished 480 for $169. Another $150.

That's $387.

OS? $89

If you get all I think you should ask for It's a $500 used system. You really don't have any STRONG selling points. Sure the 4690 is a bad*** chip, back in its day. It is still a good chip. Stays cool with a 212 Evo(Under 50C). Tops out at about 57% load with Far Cry 4. Great to pair with a 970 when they were both new. I have them both. So, okay the 4690K is a strong point. You then body-slammed that with a cheap POS motherboard that negates the overclocking abilities. A 480 is a very good GFX card to pair with the 4690K. It however isn't a 1060. People are selling off their old systems in favor of upgrading. Even my card which was about $300 when I purchased it is being sold for about $150 on the used market. I'm aware what your system is capable of.

This is not and was not a well thought out build. Not even a SSD. Those are becoming more and more popular for at least the OS and the most used programs and maybe some games. Rendering LOVES memory. You should get 16GB next time. How about 3000MHz DDR 4 with a Skylake CPU? Then the timing takes a hit.... Anyways a SSD would be in your best interest. Seriously speeds up rendering jobs. But whoever looks at this and KNOWS what they are looking at will walk away. There are too many holes.

Wait. It's at 4.3GHz. I thought the H81 boards didn't allow that good of overclocking. Nice. With the stock cooler? Not so nice.
 
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Nick_120

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Well already you don't know what you're on about lol the H81M-plus doesn't restrict my i5 at all, I can get 4.6ghz stable if the temperature allowed it and right now I'm sitting at 4.3ghz so dunno where you get that idea from, case was $40, you're all American. Which is pointless you discussing anything, you don't pay the tax, for my system here in the UK the minimum you could pay would be £650 ($750-800) that's bottom line it's a different story to you there in America, the cheapest pre owned i5 4690k I could find was £190 which is $220 odd, my gpu isn't old at all, only came out June this year so imma just try my luck and do it for what I'm happy with selling it for
 
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Nick_120

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I wanted reasonable advice, telling me it's worth 350-400 US dollars is a joke, that works out as £300-330 which is only £70-100 more than the cpu or gpu alone, and the stock cooler on the Intel cpu is all you need it's really good, I dunno why so many people hate it, at 4.3ghz right now under 100% load for 45 mins it maxes at 61 degrees Celcius which is fine in my opinion, 4.6ghz does make it go to 67 degrees Celcius so I brought it back down,
 
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aquielisunari

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Yes I was $10 off on the case. I did know about the Z97 motherboard. https://s5.postimg.org/p617ybi0n/Hot.png It works for me. It's a case of personal experience. There are many cases like http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2622873/overclock-4690k-h81-motherboard.html . But the key here is that you can overclock. I was wrong. I did mention that I saw you did overclock. I stood corrected. Thanks for the salt. In my defense it has been quite some time since I built my rig. Thanks for the refresher course. $525US. I do however think that £600 is unreasonable.
 
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Nick_120

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Right so £450 ($525) is reasonable? I need to ATLEAST make back £450 to make the value back of my cpu and gpu I just bought the i5 for £230 ($270) and the rx 480 for £209 ($230) so I need to make atleast them back, I'm not as worried about losing money on the rest but I need to make back my main money source
 
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Nick_120

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Also to be honest neither one of us was right nor wrong about the overclocking, although I can now hit any speed the chip allows, it took a good 5 hours of trying to find the sweet spot, I had to mess with a few settings but it's perfect now
 
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aquielisunari

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Yes it is.
 
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Nick_120

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Right but what I'm gonna do is put £500 or near offer and I'll come down to £450 if need be
 
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