Price of my build?

[Baily Case]

Im moving away and dont want to bring my computer so I think I am going to sell it...

Can anyone recomend what its worth and how to clear the hard drive and keep the OS? Thanks in advance

CPU Type QuadCore AMD Phenom X4 Black Edition 9600, 2315 MHz (11.5 x 201)

Motherboard Name Asus M3A78-EM (2 PCI, 1 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Video, Gigabit LAN)

DIMM1: G Skill Performance F2-8500CL6-2GBNQ 2 GB DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM (5-5-5-15 @ 400 MHz) (4-4-4-10 @ 266 MHz)

Graphics: AMD R9 270 2gb

Monitor Acer X193W [19" LCD] (LAT0C1234006)

Case: Apevia X-Trooper

PSU: 500W EVGA

Im not sure if its worth much but I would still like to know if its worth selling

 

[Eximo]

You could do a fresh install of windows using the same OS, but you would need the disc. Or a re-install of the core files, again, requiring the disk. Only other way would be to manually uninstall anything you have added and then run a disc cleaning utility to eliminate any data being recovered.

All told the system is probably between 300 and 400, a good chunk of that is the modern GPU.

Going to be a tough sale all together. Better off parting it out.

 

[Baily Case]

You could do a fresh install of windows using the same OS, but you would need the disc. Or a re-install of the core files, again, requiring the disk. Only other way would be to manually uninstall anything you have added and then run a disc cleaning utility to eliminate any data being recovered.

All told the system is probably between 300 and 400, a good chunk of that is the modern GPU.

Going to be a tough sale all together. Better off parting it out.

Thanks! I was just wondering if it was worth selling.. I was thinking of getting myself a PS4 instead but I will probally stick with my pc

 

[menetlaus]

If you have the old GPU from the system, I would reinstall it (and keep the 270 for your next build - assuming you are comfortable with that GPU/planning a new system) and sell the system like that for ~$250 (depending on the old GPU).

As for the clearing the hard drive - it depends what you have on it and how paranoid you are. If the system basically has a few important files that you really don't want someone else to see (your taxes, bank records, etc) you could look for a program that will securely erase the individual files, then format, and reinstall the OS.

If you have lots of private files, want to be sure no one else has access to any of it, or plenty of time - there are formatting/utilities that can do a secure erase and format of the drive. But as this takes multiple passes to write, over write, and over write again - it can take a long time on multi TB drives (or can overheat and kill an older drive with 6+ hours of continuous write).

 

[Baily Case]

If you have the old GPU from the system, I would reinstall it (and keep the 270 for your next build - assuming you are comfortable with that GPU/planning a new system) and sell the system like that for ~$250 (depending on the old GPU).

As for the clearing the hard drive - it depends what you have on it and how paranoid you are. If the system basically has a few important files that you really don't want someone else to see (your taxes, bank records, etc) you could look for a program that will securely erase the individual files, then format, and reinstall the OS.

If you have lots of private files, want to be sure no one else has access to any of it, or plenty of time - there are formatting/utilities that can do a secure erase and format of the drive. But as this takes multiple passes to write, over write, and over write again - it can take a long time on multi TB drives (or can overheat and kill an older drive with 6+ hours of continuous write).

It didnt have and old GPU in it when I got it. I dont have any thing important on the hard drive except my steam account, which no credit cards are linked to so thats not an issue

 

[menetlaus]

In that case, a simple format and re-install of the OS will do (for 99.9% of people).

While there are ways to recover info following a format, A) the OS install will over write the outer/most commonly used portion of the disk and make any info that gets written over very hard to recover and, B) there isn't really anything for them to find.

You could be slightly more cautious and do a full (vs quick) format as it will write over everything (quick basically just erases the table of contents) on the disk and unless someone seriously wants the info and is willing to pay in the thousands for it - it won't be recovered.

The secure erasing/formatting methods just take the above paragraph further and writes a variety of junk/random stuff to the drive in a number of passes to ensure it cannot be recovered.