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OrbitzXT
11-27-2006, 01:53 AM
Hello everyone, this site has gotten me through a lot problems and I hope it can help me on a different sort of problem. I'm not sure of forum rules but I imagine they wouldn't like me advertising my PC for sale here so I'm not, I just wanted opinions of what you guys thought would be a fair price to ask for when I go to put it on sale on ebay. Here is my setup.

P4 3.46 GHz EE LGA775 (Cooled nicely with a Zalman copper heatsink/fan)
2 GB Geil DDR2667 PC2 5300 (2x1 GB, 4 Max)
Asus P5AD2-E Premium Motherboard
ATI Radeon 1800XT PCI-E
ATI HDTV Tuner Card
250 GB WD SATA HD, 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache
Linksys Network Card
Rosewill 600W Powersupply (About a month old)

The whole system is about a year old, it runs pretty much anything beautifully including Oblivion which I just beat. So why would I sell it you might ask? I'm going to be going to Iraq soon for 6 months and was planning to use the cash from this sale to perhaps build a new computer when I come back. By the time I'm back I anticipate Vista and DX10 cards to be all around so I wanted a fresh system and sell this while its still desireble.

Does anyone have any suggestions or tips while trying to sell a complete system? Also if you had to guess what would be a fair price to put this at? What can I hope to get, at what number do you think I'm asking too high? I'd like to get as much as I can obviously. Thanks in advance, again I hope this post isn't in poor taste or against rules...was just looking for some help in selling a system elsewhere.

Edit: If it makes a difference on the sale I plan on just selling the tower alone. My brother was asking if he could have my monitor so I was gonna give it to him.

saphalline
11-27-2006, 02:51 AM
I'd shoot for $900, with a "Buy it now!" price of $750-800. Market it as an OC'ing system - make a point of mentioning the mobo and HSF unit specifically for this. Post some raw 3DMark 05 & 06 scores with it, and don't forget to mention that it's fully capable of running Aero Glass (the new 3D Vista GUI). Give links to favorable reviews of all the important components, but try to downplay the CPU since any quick research by a potential buyer would reveal an "old" CPU (and "old" CPU support).

Just remember: people buy all sorts of products on EBay for way more than they're worth! If there are any weak points to the system, don't mention them! The mere fact that it has PCIe makes it a viable gaming platform as we move into the Vista/D3D 10 combo, so concentrate on that fact. Leave the Core 2 Duo aspect out of it! And of course, TiVo functionality is all the rage! :D

OrbitzXT
11-27-2006, 03:43 AM
Thanks so much Saph, you were usually the first to respond to my actual PC problems too, and now first to respond on this haha.