Price Check: Full PC

[ajbrun]

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 .

[chrestomanci]

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.

[ajbrun]

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 .

[chrestomanci]

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.

[MSIC]

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