Better to piece out or sell the whole home built Gaming PC?

[simsalabim24]

Just wondering if it is more profitable to sell the components or the whole kit and kaboodle? I have come upon some hard times and I really want to get out of debt so I am wanting to sell my PC although it is the love of my life, and I have put a lot of time and sole into it I need to get out of debt much more badly.

Thanks.

 

[imported_Tick]

Peices can be more profitable, a parts list would help.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: simsalabim24
Just wondering if it is more profitable to sell the components or the whole kit and kaboodle? I have come upon some hard times and I really want to get out of debt so I am wanting to sell my PC although it is the love of my life, and I have put a lot of time and sole into it I need to get out of debt much more badly.

Thanks.

If you are looking to sell in in the FS/FT forum here, you can do both. List the parts prices, then a total for the whole thing (typically at a small discount.)

 

[alimoalem]

you usually need to give a slight discount if you sell the entire rig as a whole, as gunslinger mentioned, but you do ensure that you make the minimum amount of money you need and that ALL the pieces will be sold (seeing that if one buys the rig, the buy all the contents of it). post a list and price for each part and then post the price of the entire system at the price you need to make

 

[simsalabim24]

Okay well this leads to another question what do you all think I could get for this system:

AMD Athlon A64 3500+ CPU (socket 939) w/ Stock heatsink and fan can also included zalman all copper flower cooler I decided not to use on the system. (only 1 month old).

Gigabyte GA-K8NS-939 motherboard (1 month old)

Leadtek WinFast A400 Geforce 6800 128megs V-ram DVI/VGA (1 year old)

Maxtor 7200 RPM IDE HDD 2 years old. 5T020H2

1Gig 2x512megs corsair vulue select ram 3200 VS512MB400 (3 months old)

Teac CDRW CD-W512EB (couple years old)

Soundblaster LIVE! Sound card. EAX capable. (couple years old)

Lian Li style aluminum case w/ window on side. 3 antech cool fans in system.

Power supply is antech TrupowerII 430 watt (1 months old)

2 Controllers one is a Logitech rumble pad (like PSone joystick) USB, other is a microsofoft Sidewinder parellel port. (Logitech barely used 1 month) Microsoft unknown but works and feels like its hardly been used.

Creative 3 piece speaker system. (7 months old, hardly used for games and low because of GF haha )

Logitech standard ps1 mouse and keyboard. 2 years old but still work like great.

Dell 15" LCD 1504 FP DVI and VGA input capable. (1 year old) No dead pixels.

Im sure I am forgetting something but that about does it.

Thanks for all your replies.

 

[simsalabim24]

bump

 

[Jeff7181]

I don't think you're going to get anyone to buy your speakers and controllers along with the PC, so sticking just to the PC, not many people would pay over $600 for that... if that.

 

[simsalabim24]

Jeff,

Okay thanks.

Anyone else have any input.

 

[jimbob200521]

its usually easier to sell the parts one by one rather than as a whole system, plus if you dont sell the system as a whole, you make no money. but if you dont sell all the parts, youve at least made something off of the ones you have sold

 

[Looney]

$600 without the monitor... $700 with. That's assuming you sell the complete computer.

 

[simsalabim24]

bump

 

[poisonthewell]

Try searching the FS/FT forum and seeing how much people are asking for the same components - that would be a good start. As you are probably now realizing due to the lack of responses appraisal threads are not usually greeted with open arms in GH.