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How do you people sell your computers?

Lean L

Lean L

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I am thinking of selling my c2q system and replacing it with an i5. Seems like a hassle to try to sell this machine though. Especially with laptops and other mobile devices on the rise, there does not seem to be much of a market for desktop computers anymore. Craigslist is a cesspool. Ebay charges ridiculous fees and you have to ship. What does AT do?
 
Part it out and sell on AT or similar. Non-shit graphics cards not older than 2 years have decent value. Your C2Q probably has very little value. Some stuff you can't sell. Some stuff is not worth selling (like magnetic HDDs).

Due to depreciation, I try to "trade up" every generation of hardware or 2.
 
Just use your local classifieds and don't expect a lot of money. Also make sure you wipe your drive with something like book and nuke before passing it on.
 
I either post it on Facebook and sell it to a close friend for a real good deal, or post it on CL at a slightly-worse deal.
 
I usually give my older systems to charity, after wiping the hard drive and reloading the OS.
 
bargetrav said:
His Core 2 Quad probably has more value than you might think, I bet on Ebay it's worth 120-150
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I'd hope for more than that actually lol. It's a new q9550 and they are listed @ ~350 on ebay... of course that's just a rediculous price but that means someone has to be buying them.
 
I don't. I hand them down to my kids until they either stop working or are obsolete, then I toss them.
 
I never really build an entire new system at once. I do the upgrades bit by bit and either sell the old parts or keep them as spare parts (for example, it's nice to have a decent last-gen video card in case you have to RMA your current one).

I've had no problems selling video cards, motherboards, CPUs etc. They aren't worth much, though.
 
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Lean L said:
I'd hope for more than that actually lol. It's a new q9550 and they are listed @ ~350 on ebay... of course that's just a rediculous price but that means someone has to be buying them.
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That seems impossible, you could get a new 2500K and a new motherboard for the price of a used CPU?

Is it a collector's item?
 
Farmer said:
That seems impossible, you could get a new 2500K and a new motherboard for the price of a used CPU?

Is it a collector's item?
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Idk... I think ebay might just be purposefully inflated. But then there's always the 939 fiasco...
 
Sell a computer? I am unfamiliar with this concept...

I usually just gut the case and load it up with new hardware and recycle the old stuff.
 
People like cheap old shit to make "HTPC boxes" or "word processing boxes" or whatever the hell other excuses people make for spending money to assembly computer parts.
 
generally no, i usially keep 2 running at all times and just push parts down the line, sometimes i give them to family members,. i have a "computer graveyard" full of the parts for 3-5 computers. most of the parts arent worth enough to bother trying to sell
 
I let mine pile up... I shoudl part it out...
a 2.5, 3.0, 3.0 dual, and a quad... just sitting here collecting dust. Then a I have a ton of older ones that are single core... 7 or so... complete systems that are useless to me, but have no resell value really...

I think I will take these suggestions...
 
you'd be amazed at the number of people holding onto 775.

with a good graphics card a c2q can run pretty much everything on playable settings. a halfway decent 1155 board costs as much as a c2q, let alone also getting a new processor and ram (granted ram is dirt cheap).
 
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