Value + advice

[nekogod]

I built my younger brother a gaming desktop 18 months ago for around £2000 (specs below) he now wants to sell it and get a laptop instead. He doesn't really understand depreciation and thinks he's gonna get £1800 for the PC where it's more likely to be £1000 at most I reckon, but I'm not 100% sure so if anyone could help with that, that'd be great, and also wether it'd be better to sell as a complete system or dismantle and sell off the parts separately.

 

With regards to the laptop, he's moving away from AAA gaming and is looking more at flash and indie games so is happy to take a weaker GPU, he's got it into his head though that he needs an i9 (his heaviest workstation load is going to be school homework) which is obviously ridiculous and makes it stupid expensive.

 

I've been out of the laptop game a while, but I'm thinking an i5, 6gb 1060 something like the HP Omen 17 or Acer Predator Helios 300 should do him nicely or even something a bit custom like the following from pcspecialist for £1000

Proposed laptop around £1000

Chassis & Display

Vyper Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD 45% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080)

Processor (CPU)

Intel® Core™ i5 Quad Core Processor 8300H (2.3GHz, 4.0GHz Turbo)

Memory (RAM)

16GB Corsair 2133MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 8GB)

Graphics Card

NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 - 6.0GB GDDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1

1^st Storage Drive

960GB ADATA SU650 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (520MB/R, 450MB/W)

 

Current desktop specs - I suspect about £1000, brother wants more but I'm not sure he'll get it

Case NZXT 530 Black

Motherboard Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Ultra Gaming

CPU i7 7700k

Cooler bequiet BK018 Dark Rock 3 135

GPU MSI GTX 1080 Ti ARMOR 11G OC

RAM 2133mhz DDR4 16GB (2x8 I believe)

Storage WD Blue 1TB SSD

PSU Corsair RM850x

Media Bluray Rewriter

 

Thanks

[ch3w2oy]

Interested in any trades?

[nekogod]

24 minutes ago, ChewToy! said:

Interested in any trades?

Potentially, but it would have to be the whole system for a laptop and it'd have to be a laptop that was around £2000 18 months ago (something like the alienware 15 r3 max-q for example) and it couldn't be too expensive to ship. I suspect shipping the system from the UK to the US would cost a small fortune.

[LukeSavenije]

A acer nitro might be something... a i9 is hot and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overkill for everything except some really heavy workstation use

 

btw, I'll add @GeneXiS_X here

[NunoLava1998]

Tell him that he should only sell his PC if he really needs the portability; it would be a huge downgrade going to the laptop you listed

[genexis_x]

No preference on weight and battery life? Budget?

[nekogod]

1 hour ago, GeneXiS_X said:

No preference on weight and battery life? Budget?

I'll have to ask him, though I suspect battery life is not important to him as it'll be plugged in most of the time.

 

Budget will depend on what he can get for the desktop plus what he can save so somewhere between £1200 and £1800 is likely.

 

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Tell him that he should only sell his PC if he really needs the portability; it would be a huge downgrade going to the laptop you listed

I have tried, he doesn't really need it, but he's a kid so he is impulsive and very flavour of the month so I said I'd see what it's worth and what he could get then he can at least make an informed decision.

[genexis_x]

On 2/12/2019 at 6:51 PM, nekogod said:

battery life is not important

£1800 max

happy to take a weaker GPU

Cheap yet good RTX 2060 laptop:

https://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/system/Tracer-RTX-17-Xtreme-Gaming-Laptop-Configurator

TongFang GK7CP0S 

[nekogod]

I spoke to him and managed to persuade him to hold onto the desktop for now.

 

Once he realised he would not get the money he wanted and would be taking a big downgrade he was a bit more agreeable.

 

As suggested I'll probably help him get something cheap he can do homework on and light gaming and keep his desktop as his main gaming machine.