Back in Feb I bought out the NOS and parts that a friend of mine who closed his PC business back in 17 or so had left. All of the desirable stuff went pretty quickly on Marketplace where I have been selling or trading the hardware. I recouped my initial investment, got probably a bit too confident about the items selling, and find myself indecisive about what I want to do next.
One of the systems I thought was standard turned out to be a proprietary board that needed this special front panel header for things like analog sound to work, and front side case USB. I ended up going down a rabbit hole on that one and even listing it for just a few $ above what I have invested is getting zero interest. I allowed a bit of tunnel vision to get the best of me and now I am in a position where I probably will not break even on the haul. I found a use case for this particular PC and it does a nice job in that spot and even with spending too much it is an excellent price point for a used PC on my end.
I have most of the parts for one more build to come out of this. It is a full ATX ASRock Fatality motherboard, one of the K4 gaming, I want to say B150? (I am not looking at it). I picked up a cheap i5 7600 for it, got a cooler in trade, had some RAM that is faster than this mobo can XMP to, and an R5 graphics card that is around the same ballpark as a 1050 or so. I would need a case and a power supply to put this rig the rest of the way together and would be in it for ~$120. As of right now I have $30 invested on the CPU that I have no other use case for. Given the previous experience I am bit reluctant to purchase more parts. I am looking at a sub $60 Morovol case that I have no experience with, and price wise would pretty much have to go with one of the Thermaltake house fire models.
I enjoy doing builds, so if I consider this from an entertainment point of view it may be worth it just to build it for the something to do. Selling it given the age and so on will probably result in my being right on top of the actual parts cost, likely no real profit from it. My SO will probably kill me if another PC appears next to something in the house, lol. I have had terrible luck with CPU/mobo combo and just not sure it would move like that in the way the market here near Atlanta is being right now. Even at a low price, with two MicroCenters nearby and the super competitive used market this is a business model that one way or the other I am going to abandon competing in hinging on this build.
I guess to get to the "opinion" part of this. Would you spend around $120 bucks, your time and effort, to build up a virtually obsolete system that may not sell for just a few dollars more than that?
One of the systems I thought was standard turned out to be a proprietary board that needed this special front panel header for things like analog sound to work, and front side case USB. I ended up going down a rabbit hole on that one and even listing it for just a few $ above what I have invested is getting zero interest. I allowed a bit of tunnel vision to get the best of me and now I am in a position where I probably will not break even on the haul. I found a use case for this particular PC and it does a nice job in that spot and even with spending too much it is an excellent price point for a used PC on my end.
I have most of the parts for one more build to come out of this. It is a full ATX ASRock Fatality motherboard, one of the K4 gaming, I want to say B150? (I am not looking at it). I picked up a cheap i5 7600 for it, got a cooler in trade, had some RAM that is faster than this mobo can XMP to, and an R5 graphics card that is around the same ballpark as a 1050 or so. I would need a case and a power supply to put this rig the rest of the way together and would be in it for ~$120. As of right now I have $30 invested on the CPU that I have no other use case for. Given the previous experience I am bit reluctant to purchase more parts. I am looking at a sub $60 Morovol case that I have no experience with, and price wise would pretty much have to go with one of the Thermaltake house fire models.
I enjoy doing builds, so if I consider this from an entertainment point of view it may be worth it just to build it for the something to do. Selling it given the age and so on will probably result in my being right on top of the actual parts cost, likely no real profit from it. My SO will probably kill me if another PC appears next to something in the house, lol. I have had terrible luck with CPU/mobo combo and just not sure it would move like that in the way the market here near Atlanta is being right now. Even at a low price, with two MicroCenters nearby and the super competitive used market this is a business model that one way or the other I am going to abandon competing in hinging on this build.
I guess to get to the "opinion" part of this. Would you spend around $120 bucks, your time and effort, to build up a virtually obsolete system that may not sell for just a few dollars more than that?