Part pc, sell as whole, or upgrade?

[Rallenhayestime]

I recently bought a very nice system from craigslist for $900. It has following specs:

CPU: i7 4930k

MOBO: ASUS RAMPAGE IV BLACK EDITION

RAM: 8x8GB G.Skill Ripjaws Z 2400mhz DDR3

HDD 512GB patriot spark SSD

COOLER: CM hyper 212 evo

GPU: GTX 770

CASE: Corsair Air 540

PSU: AX1200i

I looked at ebay prices for each item and got about $1200-$1600 for all of the stuff. I'm not sure if I should part it out, sell as is, or get a better GPU for it and sell it. I'm only looking to get the most money out of it as I can so I can make a new build or find another deal.

I thought the best thing to do would be to upgrade the GPU, remove 32GB of the ram and call it a gaming pc and sell it, but I wasn't sure if I could do better another way.

[Jurrunio]

My way would be getting a better air cooler and use a cheap yet new GPU (looking at a used 970), then call the whole thing a high end rendering machine that can game.

[Rallenhayestime]

2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

My way would be getting a better air cooler and use a cheap yet new GPU (looking at a used 970), then call the whole thing a high end rendering machine that can game.

That could work, but the ram itself is selling for $500 on ebay, so I was also thinking to sell it and just put lower tier RAM in> I have a 2x4GB kit of hyperX that would work with this, other than that all of my other ram don't have heat spreaders

[aisle9]

Just ballparking it, all numbers are after eBay and PayPal get their cut:

 

4930K - $200-225

Board - $300-350

RAM - $275-300 (sorry, your exact kit just sold for $215)

SSD - $80-100

Cooler - Better off throwing it away than trying to resell it

GPU - $80-120 depending on model

Case - Not worth trying to sell on eBay

PSU - $150-$170

 

So you're looking, parted out, at a ballpark of somewhere between $1085-$1165. Good buy on your part.

 

If it were my system, here's what I'd do:

 

Pull out the motherboard, 32GB of RAM and the SSD and sell them on eBay (should bring in at least $500--that motherboard could hit $400 by itself)

Replace the motherboard with an AliExpress X79 board (costs about $100, IIRC)

Replace the SSD with two 1TB HDDs (or a single 1.5TB, 2TB, whatever, just give it more than 1TB of storage, should cost about $60 tops if you pull from other systems)

 

Sell the "new" system with the 4930K, the AliExpress X79, 32GB of RAM, 2TB of storage and a GTX 770 as a battlestation for gaming and editing. I'd ask $900 for this system and probably end up taking $800. So now, as a worst case scenario, your buy in of roughly $1,050 after investing a bit into a cheaper mobo and hard drives has returned at least $1,300. Probably more. $250 profit on a PC that you bought for a pretty fair price to begin with isn't half bad.

[Rallenhayestime]

5 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

sorry, your exact kit just sold for $215

 

The two most recent sold for $529 and $539 + shipping. I am willing to wait until something sells at a great price than to sell it at a decent one.

[Rallenhayestime]

I do agree with the cheap board replacement though, I could also put the 212 on that and cover the first ram slots on both sides, then using 8gb sticks of ugly ram so I'd have 16GB + the hyperX. I'll also use my EVGA 600w PSU I've had for almost 2 years now and sell the 1200w. I can sell locally or on ebay, likely local for just the big case with internals.

[aisle9]

21 minutes ago, Rallenhayestime said:

The two most recent sold for $529 and $539 + shipping. I am willing to wait until something sells at a great price than to sell it at a decent one.

A Rampage IV Extreme/4930K combo with no RAM just sold for $675.

 

Try throwing the board, the 4930K and all the RAM up as an auction for $899 with a BIN of $1,199. I don't think you stand a snowball's chance in hell of getting the BIN amount, but I do think you'll get a couple bidders for the combo. If you want to shoot higher, shoot higher. Worst thing that happens is you have to relist in 7 days.

 

And test the living shit out of every function on that board before you list it. It only takes one asshole buyer to find one obscure header that doesn't work, especially on a board that pricey, and you've got a return on your hands.