Advice on selling old hardware?

PaulW

PaulW

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Hi All,

i have numerous old PC's and hardware i am looking to find new homes for. They are in good working order. Some i have inherited and am not 100% sure what is exactly in them for now in terms of ram and CPU . Below is the information i have and been able to gather.
looking to either pass these onto needy friends for a price market value or sell them on a market place if they don’t want them. so please from the specs could you give me a rough ball park for these and what thy might currently be worth as a PC and a separate part?
i may sell parts separately like the Graphics cards or PSUs if i am more likely to get more cash for them doing it that way. beyond this i have a few other really old bits of kit that i am not expecting to get much at all for.

PC1 (oldest)
CASE: Antec P182 Super Midi Tower Case
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366)
PSU: Seasonic Focus Plus 850W 80 Plus Platinum Modular Power Supply
COOLER: Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 CPU Cooler
GPU: PNY GTX 980
RAM: Corsair Ram 12GB
Storage : it has but I will remove before sale.

PC2
DELL PRECISION T7910,
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v3 @ 3.50GHz or Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 v3 @ 2.60GHz
RAM: 16GB to 32GB (need to find out i think 32GB)
GPU: MSI NVIDIA 1080,
Storage: No Hard Drive

PC3
DELL PRECISION T7600
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2643 0 @ 3.30GHz
RAM: 16GB to 32GB (need to find out i think 32GB)
GPU: MSI NVIDIA 1070,
Storage: No Hard Drive

Seprate ancient kit
Gigabyte GTX 780
EVGA GTX 295

Thanks for your advice, i really appreciate it , I need to clear this lot out as its taking up to much room.

Paul
 
There are no price checks allowed in the main forum unfortunately.

We have a Members Market for those with enough post count, I don't think you qualify til you hit 1000 posts though. Some older users had access from when the requirements were lower.
 
LuckyBenski said:
There are no price checks allowed in the main forum unfortunately.

We have a Members Market for those with enough post count, I don't think you qualify til you hit 1000 posts though. Some older users had access from when the requirements were lower.
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Know anywhere else where i could find out how much things could be worth?
 
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EBay is your best bet, I would sell them as parts personally. Some of that you will still get a decent price for like the GTX 295.
 
PaulW said:
how come? is it becoming some sort of a collectors card? its super old now!
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Yeah - you would be suprised how much this stuff sells for especially with global shipping. A couple sold recently with water blocks for £100+ each.
 
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I think giving them to needy friends is the best option for a nominal fee, generally old PCs aren't worth much at all. You can buy old desktops with 16GB RAM and an SSD from places like CeX for well under £100 and that comes with a 2yr warranty iirc so I'd never buy an old second hand PC unless it was super cheap. Or like an i5 with 8GB and 1TB HDD for under £50 with windows, you could add more RAM and an SSD for cheap.

Obviously it may be worth cherry picking the odd component like a gfx card or that PSU and selling them separately but the bare bones of chassis, psu, mobo, cpu, ram, disk don't fetch much, even if it has a nice case, nice cooler etc that you might have spent a lot on back in the day it won't add much to the sale price.

I've got loads of old kit and honestly tempted to just bin it, some of it hasn't been booted up in over 10 years. I like tinkering and making up systems from random parts but then I finish it and wonder why I bother. I built my son a PC from old parts but then ended up getting him a laptop for secondary school anyway.
 
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fb marketplace be a good shout too.

The first system would be best to remove the gtx 980 and sell it separately. same with the power supply . given the age of that i7, the the gpu and psu would be worth more than the rest of the system.

you wont get much for the 295 and gtx 780.
 
PaulW said:
Where do i see these? Do you mean ones that have sold or ones down as buy now?
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Do a Search. Then one of the Advanced Options is "sold items".

I sell a lot of things on ebay. It's quite often better to break the PC down and sell the individual parts rather than selling the whole. Especially if you are selling it with parts missing (like disks).
 
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