Should I buy my friend's used PC?

aegais

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I have a friend looking for 800 for this build. I've never had a gaming PC before, but I've always been interested. That being said, I have no idea how to evaluate whether this is worth it or not so I would really appreciate some help, and can anyone comment on how well this setup would run current-gen games? Should I be worried that these parts are 2-3 years old?

The parts are all from 2012-2013 and have undergone medium usage.

PU - Intel Core i7 3770k. Unlocked for overclocking but I never did. It always ran stock.

GPU - 2x Nvidia GeForce GTX 680's EVGA graphics cards.

GPU - Nvidia GeForce 640 GT graphics card dedicated to Physx for games that support enchanced physics capabilities.

RAM - 16 GB DDR3 G-Skill running at 1800+ Mhz.

Motherboard - Asus Sabertooth with metal cover over the entire board to reduce and dispurse heat.

Hard Drives's - 4 hard drives. The main drive is SSD. 2 drives are set to run in stripe mode aka RAID 0 for enchanced performance. The last drive I use for storage. The main drive is 250gb, the stripe drives total 1tb and the storage drive is 320gb. So In total. The capacity is 1.5 terabytes.

Power Supply - Corsair H1050 1000w PSU.

The cpu is liquid cooled via a Corsair H70 cooler. Everything else is air cooled. Like I mentioned above nothing in this pc has been overclocked.

The case is a modified Xigmatek UTGuard.

A Logitech G19, Logitech G602 and Plantronics GameCom 780 are included with the pc. That's a keyboard, wireless mouse and a surround headset.
 
Motherboard - Asus Sabertooth with metal cover over the entire board to reduce and dispurse heat.

Actually the Sabertooth traps heat and recirculates it because of the two tiny 80mm fans that are included with the board.

Overall this doesn't sound like a bad deal, how much does he want for it?
 


The 3770K is still a pretty capable CPU. Haswell is only a 10% increase in performance over that, and Skylake will be a 10% increase over that. The GPUs on the other hand - the 680s should handle 1080P fine, but 1440P and 2160P (4K) I would see struggle a bit on that end.