Why buy old hardwear [hardware]?

[rissky92]

I sold my old gaming pc from 2011 the other day, and i found that the components was
sought indeed! I sold it for like 65 dollars and i understand that the cpu is kinda good but not good compared to cheep cpu's today like ryzen 5 or something.

Specs are/were:
Cooler Master CM 690 II Advanced Sort
Vifter: 1x 140mm Front, 1x 140mm Topp, 1x 120mm Bak, Blå LEDs, 19
dBA

Corsair TX V2 650W PSU
ATX 12V V2.3, 80 Plus Bronze, Standard. 2x 6+2-pin PCIe, 8x SATA,
140mm Vifte

i5-2500K Processor
Socket-LGA1155, Quad Core, 3.3Ghz, 6MB, 95W, Boxed w/fan

MSI P67A-GD65 B3, Socket-1155
ATX, P67, DDR3, 2xPCIe(2.0)x16, SLI/CFX, SATA 6Gb/s, USB3.0, eSATA,
FW, THX, EFI

Kingston ValueR. DDR3 1333MHz 8GB, CL9
Kit w/2x ValueRAM 4GB DDR3

XFX Radeon HD 6950 2GB GDDR5 "Dual Fan"
PCI-Express 2.1, 2xDVI, HDMI, 2xmini-DisplayPort, 800MHz


645800 Sony Optiarc DVD±RW Writer, AD-5280S
SATA, DVD±R: 24x, DVD+RW: 8x, DVD-RW: 6x, Bulk, BLACK

And it had no HDD or SSD.

 

[ElectrO_90]

Easily can run anything whats out there nowadays. You have to realise, that he may have something similar or he wants a server or anything.
$65 cheap as chips!
Where can you buy a complete setup for $65, the ram alone will cost you more than that.

 

[rissky92]

It didnt run games good, like witcher was like 10 fps, but CS was good, and it worked good for desktop ezi things! it seems like people think about money too much 😛

 

[mwryder55]

Upgrading the RAM and Video card would produce a good gaming computer for far less than the cost of a comparable new one. I am still using a 2600K and have only upgraded the memory to 16 GB and the video card to a 1060 6GB and it runs most games very well. My total cost for the upgrades was only $300, I bought them before the insanity hit

 

[USAFRet]

I sold my old gaming pc from 2011 the other day, and i found that the components was
sought indeed! I sold it for like 65 dollars and i understand that the cpu is kinda good but not good compared to cheep cpu's today like ryzen 5 or something.

For $65, I can think of a lot of things to do with it.
*I* would have bought it for that much.

Not everything has to be a 100FPS game box, with lots of blinken lights.

 

[bananatiger]

Because we bargain hunters know a good deal when we see it. I would have bought it even if you sell it for $100. i5-2500k is still a capable cpu for 1080p gaming and content creating. And yes we know how to optimize our machine so that it will have those eyecandy near/above 60fps stable.