What computer parts keep the best resale value?

[glenn1]

I'm going to say laptops, followed by monitors, then sound cards. Heck, I remember buying a used SB Live, using it for a couple of years, then selling it for the same price I originally bought it for...

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Memory seems to hold pretty well.

Microsoft operating systems

 

[Fingers]

I'd say moniters before laptops.

 

[DurocShark]

Monitors first.
Then laser printers. Especially color lasers.
Then laptops.
Then everything else. It's all commodity stuff.

 

[ElFenix]

meh

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
cables, floppy drives, cases, speakers, 10/100 nics

meant to edit


actually... my laptop appreciated cuz it was a super hot deal

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

The power cord.

 

[sniperruff]

all of you are wrong. it's gotta be computer cases.

 

[desteffy]

of nontrivial things, i'd say monitors. as long as its not some superhigh priced LCD.

 

[silverpig]

I'm sure you can get the Linksys LNE100TX 10/100 LAN card for the same price today that you could 4 years ago

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
The power cord.

/thread

 

[So]

Monitors are definitely #1 and laser printers are #2. Laptops don't hold value that well, IMHO.

 

[Falloutboy]

memory as of late I bought my current stick for 50 bucks 8 mounths ago and could get 70 for it now.

 

[jlee]

Over what period of time? I remember paying over $100 for 128mb (or maybe 256..I forget) of PC133 only a few years ago.

I'd say cases, monitors, and power supplies..

 

[Falloutboy]

Originally posted by: CadetLee
Over what period of time? I remember paying over $100 for 128mb (or maybe 256..I forget) of PC133 only a few years ago.

I'd say cases, monitors, and power supplies..

memory had a big drop about a year and a half ago but hasn't budged much since. I got my 512mb of PC3200 for 50 bucks in january of last year and I would easily go for 70 now.

 

[brunswickite]

i would say laser printers, then laptops..

 

[Chaotic42]

My 512MB DIMM is worth like $140 now. I paid $99.

 

[Mallow]

I'm going with the case. I mean why should it decrease in value? As long as someone thinks it looks cool it doesn't really depreciate

 

[BurnItDwn]

IBM Moder M Keyboards
5 or 6 years ago at computer shows, you could pick up IBM Model keyboads for between $5 and $10 each.
New it's hard to find them for less then $30 (in decent condition)

3.5 inch 1.44MB High Density Floppy Drives.
a 10 year old working floppy is worth the same amount as a brand new one that works.

Cases generally hold their values, however, power supplies don't since the power demands of PCs' keep going up.

Monitors hold their values pretty well currently, compared to say, CPUs or Hard Drives, however, 5 years ago $400 was touching on the very low end of 19inch CRTs. Those monitors now go for about $100 used. (or less)

Memmory prices fluctuate a lot due to the somewhat volitile memmory market. Memmory that was bought in the last 2 or 3 years has maintained its value pretty well, but I remember purchasing a 32MB stick of SDRam for almost $300 back in 96. Nowadays, that RAM chip is worth like, less than 10 bucks.

 

[FoBoT]

8" floopy drives

 

[TerryMathews]

Motherboards hold their value in proportion to the amount of processors they support IE a 2 cpu motherboard will hold it's value much better than a uniproc one.

 

[shimsham]

video cards. duh.

 

[PoPPeR]

definitely CD/DVD burners. I swear, it's only been like 6 months or something since I got a SCORCHING hot deal on a Lite-On 851S (4x dvd+-rw for $20 AR). Now i dont even know how fast these things are

 

[simms]

Sorry, but statisically a monitor (what I thought as first) won't. Take your 17" LCD.. a few years back easily for $700. Now, it's at about $350, if that.

A power cord, retailing at $1 still retails at $1. It's still at 100% resale, if not more, and that won't drop.

 

[her209]

The keyboard followed by the mouse.