Selling my old pc

[Kragos]

Hello,

I'm planning to build a new computer soon and I want to sell my old computer to make some quick money. The problem is I don't know how much I should sell it for because it is a really old system and I want to keep the monitor that came with it, so I'm just selling the tower.

The specs are old but they are:

Dell Optiplex 755 Case

Intel Pentium 1.86GHz, 2 Cores, 2 Threads

DDR2 Motherboard, 4 slots of RAM

275W Power Supply

8GB of DDR2 RAM, 4x 2GB

ATI Radeon x1300 Graphics Card

1 TB 3.5" Hard Drive

DVD Player (broken)

Internal Speakers (broken) Work when headphones are plugged in

 

With these specs how much should I sell my computer for? I was thinking £40

[ProjectBox153]

Honestly, £40 is overkill. I've gotten a lot of those systems for free. I would keep the hard drive for yourself and sell the rest for about £20 or so.

[Kragos]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

Honestly, £40 is overkill. I've gotten a lot of those systems for free. I would keep the hard drive for yourself and sell the rest for about £20 or so.

Would anyone buy it without a hard drive?

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, Kragos said:

Would anyone buy it without a hard drive?

Depends on the buyer. I would. I would personally turn that into a decent WAN accessible RDP server so I can have a Windows desktop that I can access anywhere in the world or a local media server. 

[Kragos]

2 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Depends on the buyer. I would. I would personally turn that into a decent WAN accessible RDP server so I can have a Windows desktop that I can access anywhere in the world or a local media server. 

What would this WAN server do?

[SPARTAN VI]

That's roughly $50 USD, which is indeed overkill.

 

You could probably flip the RAM on ebay relatively quickly as RAM is an easy item to package/ship, and folks are always looking for ways to extend the life of their LGA-775 era machines (e.g. Xeon LGA-771 sticker mod). It would be more trouble than it's worth to try shipping the entire tower though. I'm not familiar with supply/demand in your area, but I wouldn't throw any more than $20 on the entire PC. More likely, I'd load Ubuntu on it and gift it to a friend. 

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, Kragos said:

What would this WAN server do?

I have two. They are just on my network and give me a full Windows desktop that's under my control from anywhere in the world, even on my phone. 

[aisle9]

The HDD is worth $20-30, depending on age. The RAM is worth $15-20. That's all of value that you have in the PC, and rather than having someone lowball you because it's part of an ancient system, I'd pull the HDD and RAM out and sell them separately, then see if someone wants the system for $10.

[Kragos]

33 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

The HDD is worth $20-30, depending on age. The RAM is worth $15-20. That's all of value that you have in the PC, and rather than having someone lowball you because it's part of an ancient system, I'd pull the HDD and RAM out and sell them separately, then see if someone wants the system for $10.

all 4 sticks are worth 15-20 or 1 stick each?

[aisle9]

36 minutes ago, Kragos said:

all 4 sticks are worth 15-20 or 1 stick each?

All four combined.