PC Worth it?

[NYMADEAP]

Budget (including currency): 

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

 

Idk if anyone here is willing to give an opinion, but how much would a used PC, which has:

• liquid cool intel core i9-9900k 3.6GHz
• nvidia rtx 2070 super 8gb
• 16gb ddr4 (has some more ram added, think either 24 or 32 now)
• 1tb PCI-E NVMe SSD
• intel z390 chipset

be worth? Looking to sell it for a fair deal, it has been taken really good care of.

 

[Millios]

2 ways I would go about it 

a) hop on PCPP, choose the parts it has and take out about 10% to max 20% of the cost cause no matter how well you have taken care of it its still used

b) see what it goes for NOW according to the seller (CyberPower in this isntance) and do the same aka take out 10 to 20% of the cost to sell it

[OddOod]

Welcome to the forums!
If you're in the US, I'd say 750 if you're willing to wait around for it to sell, 500 if you want to move it fast

[leclod]

21 minutes ago, Millios said:

a) hop on PCPP, choose the parts it has and take out about 10% to max 20% of the cost cause no matter how well you have taken care of it its still used

b) see what it goes for NOW according to the seller (CyberPower in this isntance) and do the same aka take out 10 to 20% of the cost to sell it

Where I live this wouldn't work.

Because old parts prices (if they are still available) often don't reflect their true value.

For this to work, you'd have to find the current equivalent of each part and go with those prices.

And 10 to 20% is optimistic.

For 10 to 20% less I prefer to buy new.

Edited July 11, 2025 by leclod

[Millios]

4 minutes ago, leclod said:

Where I live this wouldn't work.

Because old parts prices (if they are still available) often don't reflect their true value.

For this to work, you'd have to find the current equivalent of each part and go with those prices.

Thats a possibility as well

In that case if it's something crazy in terms of price (say 500$ for a 2070, which is a hyperbole for the sake of an example) then looking at the used parts on ebay would be more accurate as well

[tkitch]

I'd say 350-450 is about the best you can expect for this.

 

700 is hilariously overpriced.  

 

That's a 6 (going on 7) year old CPU

a 5+ year old 8gb GPU

16gb of ddr4 (cheap)

 

And the cpu is trounced by an i5 12400 or r5 7500f

 

so, I don't see it going for over 500 at all 

[thrasher_565]

the i99900k is close to the top cpu for that socket so the price will be a bit higher

on ebay its about $250 and gpu about $250

but you can probably build a faster new system for $500 so have to take that in to account

 

Edited July 11, 2025 by thrasher_565

[CatTNT]

Trying to estimate the performance of a 9900K using 11900K and 12600K benchmarks:

An 11900K is a few % faster than  a 9900K, and a 12600K is about 10% faster than the 11900K. I don't see why you should buy a used system, when even mid end/low end parts from 2-3 gens ago beat it. 

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i5-12600k-alder-lake-12th-gen/16.html

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i9-11900k/17.html

 

[tkitch]

24 minutes ago, thrasher_565 said:

the i99900k is close to the top cpu for that socket so the price will be a bit higher

on ebay its about $250 and gpu about $250

but you can probably build a faster new system for $500 so have to take that in to account

doesn't matter, neither are *actually* worth that.

also it's a known fact:
Single parts will always sell for more than a complete system, but you'll be sitting on them for *ages* trying to move them for that money

[podkall]

4 hours ago, Millios said:

2 ways I would go about it 

a) hop on PCPP, choose the parts it has and take out about 10% to max 20% of the cost cause no matter how well you have taken care of it its still used

b) see what it goes for NOW according to the seller (CyberPower in this isntance) and do the same aka take out 10 to 20% of the cost to sell it

hells yeah

 

 

nah, doesn't work for "older" parts

 

4 hours ago, Millios said:

Thats a possibility as well

In that case if it's something crazy in terms of price (say 500$ for a 2070, which is a hyperbole for the sake of an example) then looking at the used parts on ebay would be more accurate as well

actually, it wasn't a hyperbole, in fact you were "generous"

 

 

 

4 hours ago, tkitch said:

so, I don't see it going for over 500 at all 

I can, but depends on PSU, case and what kind of NVME is that. If it's not sold incomplete in the first place.

 

 

 

[tkitch]

4 minutes ago, podkall said:

I can, but depends on PSU, case and what kind of NVME is that. If it's not sold incomplete in the first place.

Yup, but if those were notably good parts, typically they'd be mentioned instead of brushed over/ignored.

[Millios]

Just now, tkitch said:

Yup, but if those were notably good parts, typically they'd be mentioned instead of brushed over/ignored.

OP is fairly new (their literal 1st post)

I doubt they believed that they would factor in too much

[Millios]

6 minutes ago, podkall said:

hells yeah

 

 

nah, doesn't work for "older" parts

 

actually, it wasn't a hyperbole, in fact you were "generous"

 

... Well I'll be damned

[podkall]

1 minute ago, tkitch said:

Yup, but if those were notably good parts, typically they'd be mentioned instead of brushed over/ignored.

Maybe, or some people expect others to focus on the "important" parts.

[tkitch]

On 7/11/2025 at 3:01 PM, podkall said:

Maybe, or some people expect others to focus on the "important" parts.

absolutely, but if a part is adding a significant bump to the pricetag, it needs to be mentioned.

If the SSD, PSU and Case are "top tier" parts adding an extra 200+ bucks to the pricetag?  They should be listed, otherwise I'm basing an appropriate price on the "important parts"

[podkall]

2 hours ago, tkitch said:

absolutely, but if a part is adding a significant bump to the pricetag, it needs to be mentioned.

If the SSD, PSU and Case are "top tier" parts adding an extra 200+ bucks to the pricetag?  They should be listed, otherwise I'm basing an appropriate price on the "important parts"

yes, big money is big money, if I was buying high-end build, I'd also want to know remaining specs, is the PSU barebones for the build or futureproof(er), what's the RAM speed? What's the exact RAM size, 16-32GB difference can be for some people absolutely nothing while for others it could be quite important, what case is it in, is it a case with good airflow and plenty of fans and expandability or some cheaper box that just does the job at holding parts in and together, what exact liquid cooler is used, how old is it.

 

Though if I'm being honest, the detail is slightly more important in recent builds, what matters more - PSU chosen in a RTX 2070 build, or the pricetag justification of an AM5 build being sold used because it uses some ultra-extra-super-high-end motherboard that costs almost as much as a mid-range GPU? (there was a post like that with 500$ AM5 motherboard looking to sell entire PC)