I need help pricing my PC for sale please

ferry

Hi guys, preparing my old PC for selling on but have no idea what I should list it for?
Spec below:

Custom build i7 gaming PC

Windows 10 Pro 64 bit

Intel i7 2600 CPU @3.40GHz 3.70GHz

AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series Graphics card

16GB RAM

Cougar 1200w power supply

3 x Hard Drives:

2 x Western Digital 1TB SATA drives

1 x Crucial 512GB Solid State Drive

Multiple USB2 & USB3 ports

BlueRay Multilayer DVDRW 

Built in multi card reader

Case dimentions H 60cm x L 60cm x W 22cm

Lockable case - 2x keys included

Room for further expansion

Thank you 

[Deleted User]

I'd price it a £200 open to offers with a view to selling for £150 initially and see what interest you get.

Although built as a gaming PC, it is no longer one with the hardware approaching 12 years old but the specification is solid enough for daily workloads and would probably benchmark quite well against a bottom end new PC so there is still plenty of uses for it and somebody will be interested.

ferry

Many thanks appreciated

IvanOpinion

Good grief 60 x 60 x 22, are you sure that you didn't measure your filing cabinet?
When I read the spec I was thinking about £150-175 (assuming everything is working).
I assume no screen, keyboard or mouse.

Neil_Jones

Best thing to say is to forget about getting anywhere back what you paid for it in the first place, because PC hardware depreciates ridiculously quickly value wise.

So on that basis, find out what it cost you, halve it, halve it again and then round it down to the nearest £100.  So as above, couple of hundred quid.

If your aim is maximise the return money wise, you may find you can get  more by selling the components individually.  That processor was going for $300 brand new when first introduced for example (now asking price is closer to a third of that).  Alternatively if you just want to get shot of the unit, £250 max, but be prepared to drop it (price, not the unit )

ferry

Thanks guys. Any problem actually advertising it as a gaming PC? 

cx6

problem with using it for daily non-gaming workload (browsing, emails etc) is the power consumption compared with a modern 'daily workload spec' desktop.

Neil_Jones

"Gaming" is speculative.  It may not smoothly cope with the very latest games but it'll definitely cope with older and less demanding games.

But of course there are people who buy PCs and don't use them for gaming.  It's more than capable, even if it is total overkill to write letters on.

GDB2222

Intel i7 2600 CPU @3.40GHz 3.70GHz 

Has this CPU really been overclocked for the last 12 years?

[Deleted User]

GDB2222 said:

Intel i7 2600 CPU @3.40GHz 3.70GHz 

Has this CPU really been overclocked for the last 12 years?

Can't answer for the OP but the max turbo speed for that CPU is 3.8Ghz so it is not overclocked at 3.7Ghz.

Even if it was an overclock of the base speed from 3.4Ghz to 3.7Ghz the 9% overclock isn't a problem at all even over 12 years continuous usage.

In fact clock speeds don't have any long term detriment to the CPU, it is the temperature they run at which is the issue and that is down the cooling systems and not clock speed, I could kill an underclocked CPU in minutes with no cooling.

Short term, an unstable overclock will crash the PC for various reasons but none of them are permanent issues unless the voltage has been pushed well above safe thresholds, which would be very unlikely on a 9% overclock.

TELLIT01

IvanOpinion said:

Good grief 60 x 60 x 22, are you sure that you didn't measure your filing cabinet?

Ah, those were the days.  You got a free workout every time you needed to shift the base unit.