What could this PC fetch on the market?

Some of you may remember me, I posted here a lot two years ago and sparsely ever since. If you do, you know I built a pretty good system then. In fact, its still a good system.

C2D E4300 OC'ed to 2.4 gigahertz. Still stable in dual instances of Prime 95. MASCOOL cooler for it too. 8800GT graphics card, P965 mobo, 2 gigs of DDR2-800 (could be four or six gigs if it sweetens the deal), and 320-gig 7200rpm drive.

The thing is though, I want to sell it and get a MacBook. I'm weird, I know, but I find that more and more I'm just using my desktop to surf the web and do homework, and whenever I do play a game I'd much rather have it for a console because I won't have to worry about endless driver updates and such.

Looking at whats on the market, little matches my PC from pre-built manufacturers. In terms of HDD yes, but until you've spent more than $800 with most, all you get is onboard graphics. Up at that price point, at least you get a good processor, more and more I'm seeing some quad cores from HP and Dell at that price point. Still, just MOBO graphics, and all with Vista (a serious flaw for some, a 'meh' for others). And lets not forget the so-so power supplies in these things.

So I'm thinking that if I put my system on EBay for $500-$600, I'd get it. What do you think? Note to moderators: this is not advertising, in no way am I soliticiting members of TH Forums, I'm just asking what a proper valuation might be. I know of no other place to do this.

If you get $500-$600 I'd be stunned.

Does it come with an LCD of any sort? Speakers? A legally licensed OS? What sort of case?

The thing is, I have to compare this to other pre-built boxes. So 474554b, I do agree that selling this to anyone who'd actually take the time to build their own makes no sense. You can build equally good for less than I ask. But look at it this way: all $300 gets you at BestBuy is a single core system, a gig of ram, and a 160 gig harddrive.

For $470 a person could get a Phenom X3, 320gig drive, and four gigs of ram in an Acer package, but they'd be limited to onboard graphics for the rest of their lives. To get close to what HP, Dell, Gateway, or Acer offers that could match my system, processor wise you are looking at $600 for a 2.4 gigahertz Intel C2D. At that price point you are only getting onboard graphics. More RAM sure, but Windows Vista. Anyone who wants a new Vista machine probably won't want this, which is XP 64bit.

So I'm selling it as this: 2.4 gigahertz C2D, 8800GT, 2 gigs of RAM 320 gig 7200rpm drive, DVD/CD Burner, Antec 900 case.

Altogether, it still beats a lot of other pre-built systems, especially in terms of graphics horsepower. No onboard chip can match the 8800GT.

No monitor, speakers are optional at $40 (Logitech 5.1 channel surround system), you get a wired keyboard (as basic as possible) and a wireless mouse (this Rocketfish branded one from BB, actually not that bad and a set of AA's lasts months in it).

OS is legally liscensed, however its off a system builders disk that was three liscense and I'm using it to restore two other computers. So you do get XP 64-bit Pro, but no disk for it. Seriously flaw I know, but if it gets corrupted, a Vista upgrade disk can save you...

You will do better selling the parts separately on e-bay. To get an idea of the price, look at the completed auctions for each part.

I just looked at CyberPower Inc. They could match your PC for around $500.00.
All new parts with 3 year warranty and lifetime 24 hour tech support.
By all means get as much as someone is willing to pay.
With all that being said, the value of your 2 year old system is not very much. $200.00 - $300.00

In Philadelphia its worth 50 bucks

Put it on craigslist. Never had any luck with them but its free. Put it on Ebay for a 10 day auction. Its only "worth what someone will pay. a used comp isnt worth much.