Help Pricing Oldish Gaming Computer

[LollerManiac]

Country: United States

Alright so I've been considering switching from desktop over to a laptop, simply because it would be much more convenient to have the portability at this point in time.  I have a computer that is about 4 years old currently.  It has a Msi B450-A motherboard, Ryzen 5 2600X @ 3.6ghz, 16gb of ram(2x8gb sticks); I forgot exactly what kind but it has a heatsink on it and I'm currently running it at 2733Mhz I believe and haven't really bothered with overclocking it, 512gb NVME SSD from patriot I believe with windows 11, A corsair single rad AIO watercooler for the CPU and 2 additional case fans, a Thermaltake Gold 750W Fully Modular power supply, a Aerocool Cylon case and finally an Sapphire Pulse Rx 5700Xt.  It runs just fine and gets perfectly good fps in games, nothing crazy but also more than playable on decent graphic settings.  I really like my computer but I'm going to be bouncing from place to place and would like something that I could still game on and can take with me easily.  I know computer hardware pretty well but I don't have too much experience with pricing used hardware like this, especially nowadays with the prices of everything so out of whack.  Any advice on what I could sell it for is much appreciated!

[jaslion]

I've seen this going for between 800-1100$ so yeah make sure it's super clean and you can make some glory shots of it and well it will sell for the upper spectrum of the price.

[Kid.Lazer]

The 5700xt would net you a cool $700 on ebay alone. The 2600x and RAM is another $100-ish, plus $75 for the Mobo. That gets you close to 900, plus the, SSD, case, PSU, and various cooling components. I'd shoot for minimum $1000, if not more. (Assuming it's all in nice condition, clean, etc...)

 

As a basis for this and your own future dealings, complete packages will cost less than the sum of the parts (that's why junk yards exist for cars). You can make more money selling them separately, but it'll cost you far more in time and energy. Do your homework price shopping on places like ebay, then after adding up the total realistic price, knock a few percentage points off to make it a quick mover.

[LollerManiac]

8 minutes ago, Kid.Lazer said:

The 5700xt would net you a cool $700 on ebay alone. The 2600x and RAM is another $100-ish, plus $75 for the Mobo. That gets you close to 900, plus the, SSD, case, PSU, and various cooling components. I'd shoot for minimum $1000, if not more. (Assuming it's all in nice condition, clean, etc...)

 

As a basis for this and your own future dealings, complete packages will cost less than the sum of the parts (that's why junk yards exist for cars). You can make more money selling them separately, but it'll cost you far more in time and energy. Do your homework price shopping on places like ebay, then after adding up the total realistic price, knock a few percentage points off to make it a quick mover.

Thanks for the advice! I hadn't even thought of piecing it out but that makes perfect sense, thank you!

[jaslion]

43 minutes ago, LollerManiac said:

Thanks for the advice! I hadn't even thought of piecing it out but that makes perfect sense, thank you!

Keep in mind the case and cooler basically becomes worthless then. So I tend to not advice this. That and you often end up with leftover parts sitting for a long time or forever.