Should I sell my PC as a whole, or sell it in parts?

[RhysMusique]

Hey all, 

 

So I have my second whole new PC in progress (This one is technically my first but I now have none of the original components in it through years of upgrades, you know how it is). 

It's strange because I've never had a whole other spare PC to work on and truly put my dedication toward, so this work in progress is turning out to be the best thing I've ever done. Normally I'm rushing to get it back on because I don't have a PC temporarily.

 

My current (outgoing) PC is as follows:

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

ASUS ROG Strix B450-F Motherboard

32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2666MHz

Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super Gaming OC

Corsair RM850

all in a white Corsair 760T (the holy grail case in about 2014)

 

I still have all of the boxes for all of the components, including the case box with the nice good quality foam. All my drives will be coming with me, and I'll take my AIO to the new build too, which means I'll put the AMD Wraith Prism back on.

 

My question is: would it be better to sell the PC as parts in their boxes, or to sell it as a whole mid-tier gaming PC? I believe it's still current enough to be a good mid-tier performer for most people - what do you think?

 

I'm in the UK - so bear in mind I won't be able to use craigslist, and the UK used PC market is a lot smaller than the North American one.

 

Cheers

Rhys

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

7 minutes ago, RhysMusique said:

My question is: would it be better to sell the PC as parts in their boxes, or to sell it as a whole mid-tier gaming PC? I believe it's still current enough to be a good mid-tier performer for most people - what do you think?

Selling parts would be more work and take longer.

 

You'll have to find out what the parts are going for individually and add it all up. Decide whether someone might buy the whole PC for that much by looking up similar spec'd PCs. Decide if the effort is worth the difference in cost if any.

 

The ebay Sold/Completed filters are your friend here.

 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

6 hours ago, RhysMusique said:

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I would definitely think selling it as an entire unit would be more difficult then selling the parts individually unless you can do it locally, which you already mentioned isn't an option. People who buy used parts through eBay or something are typically enthusiasts in my opinion. So they would probably haggle more if you sold it as a complete system. I can already imagine them making excuses. 

[Snowmnason]

You might be able to make more money from selling it as a whole unit, people will pay for the "Service" of it being together. clean it up, see if they need any help with installing windows or new harddrives simple stuff anything and you can probably get another 20 bucks.

What I did was

1. Go on PC part picker, put in all your parts see what the price is (which would be total for if you sold it for parts more or less)
2. drop it down 10 currency pre year used 
3. Add 20 or so bucks for it being a complete build.
4. Jack it up another 50 so when they ask for cheaper you can let them win in a negotiation. 
5. Profit

[LogicalDrm]

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