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Modding old cases and reusing old parts profitable?

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My Dad owns a little computer shop and he's racked up quite a collection of old parts that are mostly ridiculously outdated. Is it worth modding cases and reusing old parts? Mostly to create browsing computers and maybe even low-end gaming computers for indie titles and older games. I'm not an expert modder but I could re-paint some old cases and cut into them to make them look more aesthetic. Not sure sure if worth the effort tho.

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you should sell sleeper PCs tho... way cooler :P 

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you could make some good money with that idea

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Would be pretty cool if I could sell some beast PCs, but the idea here is to sort of make some quick money with low investment.

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28 minutes ago, Rcarvalho21 said:

Would be pretty cool if I could sell some beast PCs, but the idea here is to sort of make some quick money with low investment.

I'd say yeah, most of the PCs on Craigslist and such are used OEMs, so if you give one a fresh coat of paint, spiff up the internals, salvage some RAM from here, a mobo from there, a CPU from this, an cooler from that, stick in a $50 SSD for a boot drive and a decent PSU and you should be able to make a profit. 

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I don't think it would work out very well, especially if they're very old parts. The only way you'd be able to make much money is by taking advantage of people not knowing much about technology and convincing them that buying a PC with say, a 5 year old entry-level CPU is a good idea. Sure, there's potential to make money, but it's a little morally grey in my opinion.

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How outdated exactly? If there's enough to build a full system, you could put some together and sell them as complete systems to people who don't need high gaming performance, provided it's not so old it can't run Windows 7.

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There seams to be quite a bit of money in Vintage Gaming PC's so it depends on how old the parts are.

 

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