Final Upgrade: Amazed at what fleabayer's pay

[Magusigne]

Finalized and waiting on my last piece.

Sold my guts of my computer and upgraded to latest generation for minimal cost do to fleabay being awesome!

Sold my
P45 Mobo, 6gb ram, Tuniq 120 and Q9550 for 370 on ebay.
Sold my XFX 5870 for 270 on ebay.

= 640 (minus fees)

Bought Asrock Z68 and 2500k= 354$
Bought 16gb G.Skill + CM 212+ Cooler 140$
Bought eVGA GTX 570 DS - 305$

Net Expendature for upgrades =159$


Not too shabby.

 

[Gigantopithecus]

Not too shabby.

Not at all. This is why I upgrade so frequently. Hopefully you didn't sell anything to a ruhtard who doesn't know what they're doing and will blame you when they can't get the parts working.

 

[WT]

Hopefully you didn't sell anything to a ruhtard who doesn't know what they're doing and will blame you when they can't get the parts working.

This +1

Buyer: Negative feedback left due to not being able to overclock seller's CPU using my stock Intel heatsink.

Seller: WTF ?!!??

 

[Meghan54]

Finalized and waiting on my last piece.

Sold my guts of my computer and upgraded to latest generation for minimal cost do to fleabay being awesome!

Sold my
P45 Mobo, 6gb ram, Tuniq 120 and Q9550 for 370 on ebay.
Sold my XFX 5870 for 270 on ebay.

= 640 (minus fees)

Bought Asrock Z68 and 2500k= 354$
Bought 16gb G.Skill + CM 212+ Cooler 140$
Bought eVGA GTX 570 DS - 305$

Net Expendature for upgrades =159$


Not too shabby.

I did much the same thing but on Craigslist----


Sold:

i7 920 ($175)
Asus RII Gene motherboard ($100)
6GB kit of Corsair Dominator ($80)
XFX 5750 ($75)

Total of sale = $430. (The video card was just sitting around, collecting dust.....)




Went to Microcenter and bought cpu and motherboard; bought memory from Newegg:

SB 2500k ($150)
Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H motherboard ($110 before $15 MIR)
8GB kit of G. Skill Ripjaws X memory ($60)

Total spent = $320.


Net gain = $110 in my pocket (Subtracting the XFX video card still put $35 in my pocket.)

I'm never surprised by what people will pay for 2 year old hardware, ebay or Craigslist.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I'm never surprised by what people will pay for 2 year old hardware, ebay or Craigslist.

I wish I could have that luck. I'm trying to sell a Q6600 and a DFI X48 mobo, both NIB. Trying to get something almost what I paid for them, but I guess that's probably not happening. I paid $200 for the chip and $260 for the mobo. I'd let them go for
$350 though.

 

[Gigantopithecus]

Q6600s regularly go for less than a Benjamin here and on eBay. NIB might break $125. An X48 board might fetch another $60-80. Good luck breaking $200 total.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

i have a shitty computer, you should feel lucky. i probably cant sell this piece of crap.

 

[Meghan54]

i have a shitty computer, you should feel lucky. i probably cant sell this piece of crap.

Unfortunately, that's what happens if you keep the hardware too long. Get used to yearly or so upgrades.....your final cost will be dramatically lower in the long run.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

yeah i know. im starting tyo save up now for a Sb system