Selling my old tower, how much is it worth?

[quotas47]

If anyone could be so kind, I'd like a valuation (range) of what I could sell my old tower for.

It is a midtower case with 4 5.25 bays, 2 external 3.5 bays, 2 more internal 3.5 bays.

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  750W Thermaltake Power supply (less than 1yr old but not 80Plus)
  Athlon Phenom II X4 940 Black
  2x2GB Corsair DDR2 800
  DVD +/- DL, RW
  DVD-ROM
  WD Green 2TB
  Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H Motherboard
  Dual Sapphire Radeon 4870 in Crossfire

 

[hans_pcguy]

I don't know how much it would be valued at but, I can tell you that selling the parts would bring you much more than selling as a whole PC. You could get 5 to 8 times more money by selling the parts separately.

 

[lowriderflow]

I'm guess like $250-300 on craigslist. it's pretty dated.

 

[n3cw4rr10r]

More like $250. You might be better off parting it on ebay, but when you consider ebay/paypal fees + shipping etc, you better off selling on craigslist.

 

[hans_pcguy]

Used PC's really don't get much money. The market is flooded with them. You might get lucky and find someone that would pay $200, but don't hold your breath.

 

[TheAshigaru]

Wow, that's pretty much my exact setup from 2009, except I only had one 4870.

But, as others have said, you're probably better parting it out. If you're looking to upgrade though, you should keep and reuse as many parts as possible. The case, optical drives, HDD, and maybe even the PSU would be fine for a new build. It would save you $150-250 probably vs. buying new.

If you're set on selling the whole thing, you might also want to think about social media as an option. You might get more bites from your friends on facebook or twitter than just posting up on craigslist.

If it were me buying though, $300 would be my absolute max.

 

[quotas47]

Thank you, there seems to be an agreement to sell the parts as spares and keep what I can still use.

I've built my next system already and it's about where I want it to be.

i7-4770K
Crucial M500 240GB SSD
Corsair AX860 80 Plus Platinum
MSI Z87M Gaming
EVGA 04G-P4-3778-KR GeForce GTX 770 Classified 4GB
Corsair Hydro H75 Liquid CPU Cooler
Team Xtreme (Xtreem?) 2x8GB PC3 19200
DVD-ROM
LG LightScribe Internal DVD/DL
Silverstone PS07B-W MATX Case
Seagate ST2000DM001 2TB 7200RM 64MB
Das Keyboard DASK4MKPROSIL-3G7-r1.0
SteelSeries World of Warcraft Cataclysm Mouse
Windows 8.1 Pro full version

 

[TheAshigaru]

Assuming you're using your PC primarily for gaming, you might want to consider getting a GTX 780 instead of the 770 and dropping your CPU down to an i5 4670K.

CPUs aren't the bottleneck in any games right now, so it's worth putting as much $$ as you are able into the graphics card.

Just as a reference, my i5 2500K still doesn't bottleneck the R9 290x that I just bought.