Price Check: Full PC

I'm hoping to sell my PC in the next few weeks, but I have no idea how much to ask for. Could you give me a price for each component, as well as a whole system price please.

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Barton
Memory: 2x512MB Crucial DDR (brought at different times, but they're the same I think)
Motherboard: MSI MS-6570
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 6600
HDD: Maxtor 120GB PATA 8MB cache
HDD: Random old 40GB PATA 0.5MB cache
PSU: Hiperpower 550W (I think) with a monitor power connector too
Case: Chieftec BG-01B-B-SL Silver/Black ATX
Monitor: CTX VL700B
Floppy: Alps 1.44 Black Floppy Drive
CD-RW/DVD-ROM: Sony CRX320E 52x32x52x16
CD-ROM: Samsung SC-152G


Thanks, I think that's everything :).

Others may disagree, but I don't think complete PCs are worth very much these days. I know that it is a decent system and will be perfectly adequate for home office use or lightweight gaming, but in that market segment Dell will sell someone a complete system that is new, and comes with support and windows Vista for arround £280 and most people would prefer to pay the extra even though they are getting a technical inferior PC.

I think you would be better off breaking the system up and selling the parts. The memory should be worth £35 or so here, The graphics card about the same, and so on.

The alternative would be to give the system to a family member or a charitable recipient. (Perhaps a local church group needs an office PC, or knows someone who does). You could also combine the two by removing and selling the good stuff from your system, and creating a functional but low spec system with what is left.

I have an old system similar to yours that I have decided to give away. I took out the 1Gb of good memory and put in an old 256Gb stick, and removed the 9700 pro card and put in an old GeForce 3 I had knocking around. I might also take out the 120Gb HD, and stick in a 40Gb one. Each of those downgrades will be worth £30 in saleable parts, and I still get the Karma of giving an old PC to charity.

Actually, selling it all together, just without the graphics card was something I'd already thought of. I'm asking for prices both as a whole, and for individual component incase like you say no one will want it all together. I know of at least one person who might be willing to buy the PC without the graphics, but I was wanting prices for everything anyway just incase. Even if I do sell it without the graphics, I'd still need some prices ;).

Does that mobo have integrated graphics?

It is up to you, but I think that unless your buyer is a gamer, or needs to run two displays, they won't pay any extra for the graphics card, so you may as well take it out and sell it separately.

I think that the setup may be worth buying for around £150, perhaps a bit less if the buyer has to install their own OS.

Sorry dude, would have been a sweet system once upon a time :(