Computer valuation needed

[Bitter]

Is there a website that would help me assign a fair realistic value for a computer I assembled? The hardware is older than pcpartpicker has pricing for, so that's right out. I'll list the specs and if some people here can give a value range that would be great too. I built it from spare parts for a shop PC for where I work, it was a temp but it's better than the cheap laptop we had so my boss wants to keep the one I built.

 

Generic mid tower case

"600" W PSU branded as Diablotek

4GB DDR2 1066

Gigabyte GA-G41M-COMBO

Intel Pentium E5200 @3.5ghz

95W stock Core2Quad cooler

And Radeon HD6570 - I paid $15 recently so I'll use that pricing.

120 GB SSD, an older Patriot drive

DVD burner

5.25 card reader - Rosewill branded

PCIE dual band WIFI card, Atheros AR946x family, I paid $12 recently so I can use that price.

Pair Altec Lansing GCS100 speakers

 

I was thinking as an assembled working system that $100 to $125 was a fair price, not including Windows 7 in the price because it's end of life. Am I in the right ballpark?

 

[3 Lions]

I'd say $70-$80 at best. 

[Fasauceome]

8 minutes ago, Bitter said:

"600" W PSU branded as Diablotek

negative fifty dollars

 

but really the most valuable part of the build is the SSD, so I'd say that plus the GPU and an extra $10 is what I'd pay for this.

[NunoLava1998]

Maybe 75$

[MarbleHornets]

Yeah, that's a very low end/old system that honestly wont fetch you too much cash now a-days, especially finding someone who'll buy it, especially with no license. I work for a company that bulk sells these for about $40ish a tower (given, thats bulk), but you wont really find people willing to pay too much more for a system like that. 

[RobFRaschke]

If I really needed a computer for my grandmother, and saw an ad listing this for $125, I would just keep looking. If it was listed for $100, I'd probably offer you $50 and if you got upset, I'd just move on. Check out the LTT video for $69 gaming PC for a point of reference.

[poochyena]

$50 if you want to sell it soon. $100 if you are ok with holding onto it for a while hoping to get the right person.

[tatte]

So you built it for your workplace? I think the pricing depends on what's your relationship with that job. $100 might feel a bit steep but it's not unreasonable for a working system no one at your work had to spend any company time on. You could also try to go for a paid day off, it's easy to sell as a favor for a favor and could keep things nice and casual. If you want a credible price tag you could just look up the average prices for the parts on eBay and make a list, could minimize the risk of your boss feeling like you're trying to be greedy. If it's a job that you like, giving them a good deal (I'd say $50) could be smart.

 

To a random person? Sure, go for $100, but I'd stay open for offers. That's borderline useless and doesn't hold any real retro-value yet. Tough sell right now.

[Bitter]

6 hours ago, fasauceome said:

negative fifty dollars

 

but really the most valuable part of the build is the SSD, so I'd say that plus the GPU and an extra $10 is what I'd pay for this.

LOL I know, right? That's just what I had around that was 24 pin, everything else I had spare was 20 pin and probably even worse.

4 hours ago, tatte said:

So you built it for your workplace? I think the pricing depends on what's your relationship with that job. $100 might feel a bit steep but it's not unreasonable for a working system no one at your work had to spend any company time on. You could also try to go for a paid day off, it's easy to sell as a favor for a favor and could keep things nice and casual. If you want a credible price tag you could just look up the average prices for the parts on eBay and make a list, could minimize the risk of your boss feeling like you're trying to be greedy. If it's a job that you like, giving them a good deal (I'd say $50) could be smart.

 

To a random person? Sure, go for $100, but I'd stay open for offers. That's borderline useless and doesn't hold any real retro-value yet. Tough sell right now.

Yea, it's been built and at the shop in use for several months now without issue and running MUCH faster than the Celeron N3010 laptop we had prior that had an OS failure due to Win10 updates and HP BIOS software or some crap, I did manage to get Win10 reinstalled on that laptop but we needed a computer like the next day so I put this one together from what I had available in one evening and brought it in with the speakers so we'd have a working system to look up information and what not in the shop so we can fix cars more gooder.

 

Overall despite the severe age, this PC runs WAY faster than the $150 laptop he bought. AllData and Shopkey both load pages substantially faster, searching the internet and pulling up/viewing Youtube results happens in fractions of a second not several seconds, and having more than 5-6 tabs open in Chrome doesn't make the system crawl. It's twice the computer than the laptop was, but I don't want to be unfair to him in the pricing nor do I want to shortchange myself.

 

So it sounds like $70 would be a fair price for the whole system and assembly. An extra vacation day actually sounds like a really good compromise and would work out better for me and would likely be very agreeable to him as well.

[Bitter]

8 hours ago, MarbleHornets said:

Yeah, that's a very low end/old system that honestly wont fetch you too much cash now a-days, especially finding someone who'll buy it, especially with no license. I work for a company that bulk sells these for about $40ish a tower (given, thats bulk), but you wont really find people willing to pay too much more for a system like that. 

Well it does have a Win7 Home product key on it, but I installed Win7 Pro in case we needed some of the more technical networking stuff in the shop to have it share itself with other PC's or devices in the office.