Is it worth selling your old computer where you are at?
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This whole conversation made me think of something people say in the used car world LOL. I love the adds that say price is firm, don't bother me if you don't like it. I know what I have and I'll scrap it if no one buys it for my price... I dye laughing every time. Little over dramatic there bud? Sure you're gonna scrap it for 1/3 the price you are asking uh huh... If you are too high on price it's pretty easy to tell by the response you get. I figure rather than let things sit around here in my way collecting dust I might as well let someone else get some use out of them. Some people may think differently but that is how I feel. I rarely sell parts and a lot of times find myself buying parts to complete a system. I have the drives I want and usually just swap my drives to my new system. When I do update drives usually one of my kids get my old drive. I rarely sell a used drive. I just sold an older PC this week. Nothing really special, I had a used AsRock H110 BTC+MB and a i5 7600 plus a GTX 1060 6GB that was mined on for years 450w PSU and I bought a Montech X3 case and a 1TB M.2 SATA SSD sold it for $375 in a day. I spent $110 building it plus the other parts that payed for themselves in ETH YEARS ago. Guy bought it for his brothers birthday, It was going to be his first PC. I find it much easier to sell a whole system vs parts.
It depends, I have a video card and RAM that where I live I can make some money, but on a more basic computer I prefer to just remove the disks and give them to someone I know who will use them.
I recommend removing the SSD/HDD and turning it on for at least 30 seconds to ensure RAM is completely cleared, no matter what you do.
After that there are a few options;
1) check and see if the Motherboard has onboard video. If it does, pull the video card out and Sell that on Facebook or something similar (3080) is still a fairly good gamer card and you shouldn't have issues finding a buyer at a decent price. The rest of the computer you can donate, as there are always people/groups who need them.
2) you can turn it into a server if you have a use for such things, a personal NAS or home media server can be fun to build/setup if you are a techofile.
3) you could probably sell the unit as a whole, as the specs are still decent enough for someone who isn't 4k gaming. If this is the case, I would recommend some flyers around a college/university (whatever they call them in your area). There is always someone that is looking to upgrade, and always people who have a shitty old system.
Always destroy old hard drives.
