Gaming rig

[TheJONgamer]

$800 bucks obo
3dmarks on 3dmark 06 are 14,000+ give or take a few points dependent on what programs are running in the background
Specs: Phenom II 720 BE this thing is smoking
GIGABYTE GA-MA790GPT-UD3H AM3 AMD
790GX very clean looking board
Crucial 2GB DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) X2 4gb toatal
650w Corsair Power supply it can handle two 5770's in crossfire or one 4890 or a gtx 285 to give you a idea of what it can take
Xfx Ati Radeon 4850 1gb
One 320gb 7,200rpm hard drive WD caviar blue
10.000 RPM WD RAPTOR 74GB
Fresh copy of Windows 7 Home 64bit activated and all on the 10k raptor
A Samsung Disk drive;does every thing except blue ray.
Centurion 5 case with wire management mods and the guts are about 3-4 months old but I'm looking for more power. If anything goes wrong with in a month due to faulty electronics I will make sure it is taken care of. Everything is under warranty the first warranty to run out is the hard drive. The processor has 3years the GF card has 5years the power supply has 5years and the ram is lifetime and last but not least the the Mother Board has 3 years.
This rig as is can run Crysis Warhead at 20-25 fps with minimal frame dips and it is very playable and is pretty quiet and that is on max settings I mean everything on Max

I would like to know if this rig is worth $800 if not how much should it go for? Thanks in advance for the help people?

 

[MadAdmiral]

Not to sound like a jackass, but...

It's not worth $800. Maybe $550-600, if you get a sucker.

Right now, a better performing new build (x3 440/5770) would cost $650 for the parts and $100 for the OS. If it's brand new, the value would be about $600 simply because it was not built by a professional. Given the age, I'd say it's worth closer to $500. It doesn't help that you quoted warranties, as most of them don't pass to a second owner.

EDIT: Removed the parts that are irrelevant...

 

[TheJONgamer]

So hold on your telling a pre built rig that will cost 800 dollars not retail whole sale price from my direct vendors and that isn't built that I use to run my computer shop and you can't beat that pricing by much any where and then have it built the only way I can back this up is because of my status through my company. So the warranty will follow regardless and 550-600 is a little low and x3 440 will have about the same fps l3 cache makes more more a difference than you think.

 

[TheJONgamer]

MadAdmiral I think that under shoots it just a bit yea its older but I would take 700 for it no problem

 

[ddx]

holy punctuation batman!

 

[TheJONgamer]

nice ddx but um one more thing MadAdmiral it was built by a professional I'm a computer tech and I work on them for a living the business I'm with now has been in business since 93-94 so I got my reputation sir.

 

[MadAdmiral]

Do you offer a guarantee with it? Will you service it if they call you for an extended period of time? If no, then it's not built by a professional. Besides, you're trying to sell it on the internet. There is no way to tell if you're an actual computer tech. Also, I know lots of techs that I wouldn't trust to build me a computer...

And I wasn't talking about spend $800 on a prebuilt. I'm talking about spending $800 on the parts that would blow that build away.

As for the X3 not having a L3 cache, it really doesn't make a difference. At least not for gaming. That's not an opinion, that's what reviews and benchmarks show.

 

[JDFan]

Have to say I semi agree with MadAdmiral here. I just did a price list using Newegg and current pricing brand new runs $797 with the Windows 7 license so trying to get $800 or even $700 is not going to fly here (this is after all a site for enthusiasts who mostly can build a system FYI here is the current RETAIL Price of those Parts brand new from Newegg :

GIGABYTE GA-MA790GPT-UD3H AM3 AMD $105
Crucial 2GB DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) X2 4gb toatal $28.99 x 4 = $115.96
650w Corsair Power supply $89.99 - 10% sale - $20 MIR = $61
Xfx Ati Radeon 4850 1gb $109.99
One 320gb 7,200rpm hard drive WD caviar blue $44.99
10.000 RPM WD RAPTOR 74GB $89.99
Fresh copy of Windows 7 Home 64bit activated $99
A Samsung Disk drive;does every thing except blue ray. $22
Centurion 5 case $50
X3 720 $100 No longer sold though since it is EOL'd
Total : $797.93

While $500 may be a bit low you have to remember that used carries no warranty form the manufacturer (unless as a builder you actually can resell their products with warranty intact) and the buyer can not know how the system has been used (OC'd with high voltages etc.) so there has to be some sort of incentive to buy it used from you instead of brand new from a retailer so a 25 - 35 % price reduction is not too unrealistic (which would place the value at $600 - $525) and since some of the parts are already EOL or will be shortly even that is going to take finding someone that is willing to buy an older mid level system.