Trying to put a reasonable price tag on my old setup that I'm selling

[moomoli]

Hi everyone,

I am having considerable difficulties pricing my old system (I bought new parts last week and now I'm selling my old ones). The computer specs are:

CPU: AMD FX-8350 8-core @4.0Ghz (CPU cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO)
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 285 Asus Strix 2Gb
PSU: XFX 550W TS, ATX Power Supply, 80+ Bronze
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X 1600Mhz 16Gb (4x4gb)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 200R, ATX-case, Mid-tower

It also has an Asus optical drive. Most of the parts are around 5 years old, but the GPU is almost barely used since I swapped it for another one quite early. Also the memory modules are under a year old. I have one 1TB hard drive and an 500GB SSD but those I'd rather not sell since anyone could recover the data even after a complete format.

Every component listed is in working condition even though they are quite old. Any suggestions for a reasonable price (from my standpoint and the buyer's as well) would be greatly appreciated. I'm also looking for advice on how to evaluate old and used systems.

 

[Eximo]

Typical advice is to subract 20% for each year...I wouldn't recommend anyone to buy this, so it is a hard sell. If you can re-purpose it as a web browser for a relative or something, do that. Donate it to a local charity, church, school, etc.

Brand new $600 in parts, including an outrageously priced R9-285. However, if we pick out an equivalent late model card. Say an RX570 for $150, then we are looking at $500. CPU can be had for $70, in box. 970 motherboards range around $75, 16GB of DDR3 is about $100 (but so is DDR4 2400)

If I had to price, no drives and no OS. You could ask $300 and probably get $200-250.

I would recommend someone buy a Pentium or a Ryzen 3 in its place, though. Or go for a Ryzen 5 2400G.

 

[moomoli]

Typical advice is to subract 20% for each year...I wouldn't recommend anyone to buy this, so it is a hard sell. If you can re-purpose it as a web browser for a relative or something, do that. Donate it to a local charity, church, school, etc.

Brand new $600 in parts, including an outrageously priced R9-285. However, if we pick out an equivalent late model card. Say an RX570 for $150, then we are looking at $500. CPU can be had for $70, in box. 970 motherboards range around $75, 16GB of DDR3 is about $100 (but so is DDR4 2400)

If I had to price, no drives and no OS. You could ask $300 and probably get $200-250.

I would recommend someone buy a Pentium or a Ryzen 3 in its place, though. Or go for a Ryzen 5 2400G.

I suppose you are right. Thank you so much for such an informative answer! I will probably reach out to people I know and ask if they are in need of either a web-browser or a light-gaming computer. If not, then I'll put it up for sale for around 280€ so that I have some room for haggling.