Selling Custom Built PC But How Much Should I be Asking For?

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Offside

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specs below - its not even a year old until april


Case
COOLERMASTER HAF 922 MID TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-3820 (3.6GHz) 10MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® RAMPAGE IV EXTREME: INTEL X79, SOCKET 2011, R.O.G
Memory (RAM)
32GB KINGSTON HYPERX BEAST QUAD-DDR3 2400MHz X.M.P (4 x 8GB KIT)
Graphics Card
6GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX TITAN - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
500GB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 16MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£69)
Processor Cooling
INTEL SOCKET LGA2011 STANDARD CPU COOLER
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Genuine Windows 8 Standard Edition 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Monitor
AOC E2752VQ 27" WIDESCREEN LED TFT - 1920 x 1080, 2MS, HDMI, DP (£186)
Keyboard & Mouse
Cyborg V.5 Gaming Keyboard with Illuminated Keys (£45)
Mouse
CM Storm Xornet Gaming Mouse (£19)
Gaming Mouse Pad
Corsair Vengeance® MM200 Gaming Mouse Mat Compact Edition (£12)
Speakers
Microlab B18 2.0 USB Speakers (£10)
 
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Offside

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I've never used Ebay before can you set a price of £0.00 let bids come in and if the bids aren't acceptable just reject them or do you need to do it like a auction start price then goes to highest bidder?
 
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LFFPicard

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Why would you want to get rid of that?

In fact, why would you get a PC like that and have a standard unbranded SATA hard drive :(

Hell if I had the money I would buy it just for the Titan, nice upgrade for me :)
 
mantadog

mantadog

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What you can do is set the start price to 99p and leave ti running for say 7 days. The bidding escalates up and whatever the top bid is you have to sell it for.

The other way to do it is list it as a buy it now with best offer. You could list it at say £1600 and also accept offers. That way if someone offers you say £1400 you could accept it if you were happy with it. 2nd hand is always tough to guess the value, especially of such a high end setup. A long auction will get you the highest possible price.

You could part it out and sell the GPU separately, maybe also some of the RAM separately too.
 
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LFFPicard

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The only problem with ebay is if you search for top spec computers you often see them selling for as little as £600.
I was tempted once to buy one, but being that cheap there must be something wrong with them, so I came here and bought mine instead :) Never regretted it.
 
Grimezy

Grimezy

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That build is shocking, so unbalanced it's untrue. i7 with titan yet standard CPU cooler? Standard hard drive? Only a 650w PSU? 32gb of 2400mhz ram even though it's not overclocked?

What were you thinking?

Put it on ebay, you can set a reserve so if the bidding doesn't get high enough it won't sell. I'm fairly sure you can reject bids but I think you need a good reason, I think it's frowned upon to let it sell and then decide you don't want to anymore.
 
SmokeDarKnight

SmokeDarKnight

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Also if you are putting it up on ebay i would remove the free trial software notes as they might not work and someone might complain about that.

I've tried to sell computers on ebay twice

The first the guy bought it then wouldn't pay till i shipped it to Africa. HA!

The second he said that his account had been hacked and didn't want the machine.

Both times it prevented me from selling the machine again for a month.

I ended up using gumtree, no hassle at all.

Thats just my experience though
 
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Offside

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I know about nothing about computers lads i bought it for 1 reason and 1 reason only to play arma 3. The only other reason is fps are better on pc using mouse/keyboard but now i prefer consoles ONLY because of controllers. And as for overclocking it's easily overclocked.

It's a great pc plays arma 3 and all other games i've got perfectly on full.
 
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of course you can but you can't play games like arma 3 with a controller and i'm to lazy to configure the buttons haha for new games.
 
SmokeDarKnight

SmokeDarKnight

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Yeah i use my xbox one on PC some games just aren't playable the K&M in my opinion. Beat-em-ups. Assassins Creed, Castle Crashers
 
mantadog

mantadog

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Offside said:
I know about nothing about computers lads i bought it for 1 reason and 1 reason only to play arma 3. The only other reason is fps are better on pc using mouse/keyboard but now i prefer consoles ONLY because of controllers. And as for overclocking it's easily overclocked.

It's a great pc plays arma 3 and all other games i've got perfectly on full.
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If you only bought this PC for playing Arma 3 then its going to sting a little when I say you are probably going to loose more when selling this PC than you would have had to spend on a PC to play Arma 3...

If you want to play with a controller then grab an xbox controller or one of the ones made for PC. My brother uses some sort of mash up of everything playing arma including a controller. so yeah...

If I were in your position I would sell 24Gb of the RAM, sell the titan, buy a better HDD and a cheaper GPU. That way you still have a gaming machine and don't get hammered on the cost of selling the whole thing at what will probably be a huge loss.
 
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LFFPicard

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mantadog said:
If you only bought this PC for playing Arma 3 then its going to sting a little when I say you are probably going to loose more when selling this PC than you would have had to spend on a PC to play Arma 3...

If you want to play with a controller then grab an xbox controller or one of the ones made for PC. My brother uses some sort of mash up of everything playing arma including a controller. so yeah...

If I were in your position I would sell 24Gb of the RAM, sell the titan, buy a better HDD and a cheaper GPU. That way you still have a gaming machine and don't get hammered on the cost of selling the whole thing at what will probably be a huge loss.
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As mentioned, you will be lucky to get back half of what you paid for it. For example, my build below cost me £2500, I would be lucky to get £800 now. But, if money is no object I am a worthy charity :)
 
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Offside

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my gumtree ad ebay are money grabbing .....

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Offside

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Well sort of got what i wanted for this still losing a ton of money on it in my opinion but i got two consoles ps4 with games xbox 1 with games and £400. Reasobably pleased considering all i ended up doing was using it for browsing the net and two games 1 arma 3 which i can't be bothered with despite being amazing as i can't get used to keyboard controls to used to xbox controllers (yes i know you can use them on pc) but i enjoyed football manager (only reason i bought my last pc) so pretty much spent 5k on two pcs for two games lol im a idiot i know.

If i knew more about pcs i would have stripped it and sold them items seperately but i don't so it is what it is.

Right my question

It's regarding live streaming to twitch or jtv whatever it's called what specs and price am i looking at to run a hd capture card please help me lads?
 
SmokeDarKnight

SmokeDarKnight

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It says on the Twitch main page if you go to the FAQ how to.

Sorry i cant link it as im at work and the BAN HAMMER hits hard on gaming sites.

They do have PC specification in there thouhg
 
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