Advice on fair selling price for a desktop computer with AMD FX 4170 Quad Core (4.2 GHz)

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  scrimshaw on 13/11/2015 - 16:01

  No more than $600 is what I'd pay for it, but it would be wiser to actually exclude the software licenses and keep it rather than resell it, and the monitor should also be sold seperately rather as a bundle if you wish to maximise return.

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  Axelstrife on 13/11/2015 - 16:51

  +1

  $450 for everything

  separate monitor and sell for $100 if you can then the rest for $400

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  Lysander on 13/11/2015 - 17:04

  Wow, that's a lot lower than I expected.
  I do not need the licenses - have them all on my PC.
  But I will try to sell the PC and monitor separately to get more money.
  Thanks to you both for the advice.

  I guess the reason for the lowish price is that the CPU is old?

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    donkeydoc on 13/11/2015 - 17:57

    +1

    It's an AMD CPU, it's not worth much, it's highly inefficient compared to a new intel CPU

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    scrimshaw on 13/11/2015 - 18:17

    +1

    the graphics card is also a couple of generations behind too, and is comparable to a R7 series. The FX-4170 is also old, and no longer being sold.
    the machine must be around 3+ years old, judging by the generation of the processor and the gpu.

    You can sell on ebay for the most return but remember that their fees are around 10 percent, so a listing that sells for $600 ends up being $540 after fees.

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  jkim on 13/11/2015 - 18:32

  +1

  Is the windows retail or OEM?
  If retail, sell it separately… MS software probably the most valuable part of the whole lot.

  AMD FX4170 Quad Core at 4.2 GHz
  8 GB Ram
  - Which mobo? CPU+MB+RAM = $100
  http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-G4400-vs-AMD-FX-4170
  Slower than a $90 CPU, old so probably needs new heat sink (-$30) and eats twice the power (1/2), RAM worth ~$40, MB probably $60 but worn caps so 1/2 is $30. $30 + $40 + $30 = $100.

  1 TB Hard drive
  - Worthless… second hand HDD

  Gigabyte HD 7770 1024 MB (GDDR5, GPU Clock 1100MHz) - AMD Radeon HD7700 Series
  - $50 - $80

  DVD-RW drive
  BD-Rom drive
  - What PSU? What Case? DVD+BD+PSU+Case = probably 70% of a brand new PSU of same make/model. Lets say $50 for now

  64 Bit Windows 10
  - $100 easy if retail

  Full Professional Office 2013 Suite
  - All documents provided? Hard to say, given people in second hand market would buy home and not pro, so the incremental value there is 0. niche might buy for $200+, but I would value for mass market as the same price as a retail office 2013 home license (i.e. $139 or whatever it is).

  Full Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator
  - Niche… hard to put dollar value to that, given to the right people it could fetch some coin but to the mass it isn't worth anything.

  Logitech Webcam (no idea which model but does HD 1080p and has a Carl Zeiss Tessar lense)
  - $30?

  BENQ Senseye+photo monitor (model G2411HD)
  - 6 year old 24" monitor, going to go for $50 max imo, given better brand new ones are around $150.

  That's $280-$310 for HW, and $200-300 for MS software. No clue for the Adobe stuff.

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  Lysander on 13/11/2015 - 20:52

  Thank you for that detailed assessment. Not very good for my friend but still thank you.
  I guess maybe just give it away to a friend who will use the full Adobe Acrobat version plus the Illustrator and Photoshop applications.