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My i7 4790k owes me nothing / Ryzen resale value

The Old School Gamer said:
Yeah the Intel second hand market boggle's the mind.
I've been wanting to pick up a cheap 8700k or 8086k for a while now.
But it's never going to happen by the looks of it lol.
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To be fair to people selling, they will look at new prices and set accordingly. So if intel sell high new, then used prices will be high as well.

Why would I sell e.g. a 8600k for £20 when new intel chips similar performance profile are £250 new.
 
Certain selling places have their ups and downs. I tried selling another item I paid over £200 for an got peanuts for it

Some things i've had great deals on, some not as good. Problems with sales and buying. As I say, has its ups and downs
 
Same, the 4790K was such a solid purchase back in 2014, still a good CPU and just sold my old build with the 4790K for £400 (4790k, Gigabyte Z97X, 16GB DDR3, P182, Corsair 550W)... 4/5 of the 5900X that is replacing it :p
 
@Guest2 how did you get it so cheap? I remember getting mine built in a shop from new i74790 16gb ram. I can't remember what gpu it was but I paid £1200
 
Guest2 said:
2nd hand in 2014
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Weird I thought that cpu on its own was new for over £300 then.

I thought I was ripped off for a second (I was a bit naive about computers) but adding it up roughly I wasn't.

Did a family member sale you that? That's crazy.
 
Paid £227 for my 4820K not long after release in 2013 - been solid and I didn't really need to replace it but just spent £200 sticking a Xeon 1650 V2 and a Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVME drive in this system - wish I'd done it earlier actually and got a bit more mileage the Xeon seems to be top tier silicon and way better than my 4820K and hits 4.7GHz with ease on reasonable voltage whereas my 4820K needed a lot of volts to 4.6GHz and while it would do 5GHz stable would not have lasted long at the voltages required.

Overall pretty happy I decided to go X79 over the consumer options back then as the quad channel memory and other features like generous PCI-e lane allocation helps to keep it going today.
 
I don't know. I bought everything new and it included Z97-k mobo. I74790, 1tb hard drive, hyperx 16gb ram I cant remember what gpu i had to be honest. Windows, computer case and power supply. was charged £1200 all together I think. Seems quite steep but at the time It was on the high end scale.

I was probably charged £150 build fee though.
 
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