Suggestions on selling Homebuilts
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I am looking to sell two homebuilt computers and was looking for suggested best setup.
Setup #1: Abit IC7-G motherboard, socket 478 P4 2.6 (800 fsb) with Cooler Master copper hs/fan, 2 Gigs Kingston Value Ram (4 X 512 Dual Channel PC3200), ATI Radeon x1600 512 Meg (AGP), TDK DVD RW (2 speed, i think), and an Antec Sonata case with upgraded Antec Smart Power 2.0 500 Watt PSU. I would be willing to throw in a Creative Audigy Gamer soundcard and ATI Radeon 9500 Pro 128 Meg video card (AGP).
Setup #2: Abit NI8 SLI motherboard, socket 775 P4 3.0 630 (800 fsb) with Cooler Master copper hs/fan, 1 Gig OCZ Gold Ram (2 X 512 Dual Channel PC2 5400), 2x MSI 6600GT 128 Meg (PCI-e), Samsung DVD RW (8x), Samsung CD/DVD Combo drive, and an Antec P180 case with upgraded Antec Smart Power 2.0 500 Watt PSU. I would be willing to throw in another gig of the OCZ Gold memory, but unfortunately the system seems to run unstable with all 4 banks filled. A common problem with the NI8, I believe.
I haven't mentioned hard drives and here is where I need the help. I have 2 WD 74 Gig Raptor SATA drives (10K RPM) and 2 WD 250 Gig SATA drives (7200 RPM). All 4 come with the WD secure connect cable which I find to be very convenient, except for having to use regular (legacy) power. My initial idea was to sell the raptor drives raid 0 in the NI8 system so it was fast and SLI, and the 250 drives as raid 0 or raid 1 in the IC7-G system. Should I go with my initial idea? Would the IC7-G be a more popular system and therefore put the Raptors in that system? Should I break both sets up and put 1 raptor and 1 250 in each system. I also didn't mention OS. I have one genuine XP Pro disk and one genuine XP Home disk. I was thinking of putting the XP Home disk with the raptor drives, but what would be best? Also, any approximate price of what each system might fetch would be much appreciated.
Setup #2 looks better to me, because of the SLI motherboard and the faster CPU. If it had the 2GB of RAM instead of the 1GB, it definitely would be better.
As to where to split the hard drives, I'd say put the dual raptors in setup #2, and the dual 250s in the other, as whichever RAID levels you like, or no RAID at all.
The dual Raptors would benefit the machine with less RAM because the page file will be able to be accessed faster on a faster hard drive. The power supply in setup #2 would also be better-equipped to handle the drives.
The OSes are up to whoever you're going to sell the machines to. If the person buying the one machine wants XP pro, then put it on there and give it to him, doesn't take that long to install Windows and drivers and stuff.
Is this a one time deal or you trying to start a business?
Where do you want to sell?
How many are you looking to sell?
$200-$300
The PC's at Walmart for the same price have a warranty and and offer about the same performance and come with displays.
Shadowduck,
At one time I was thinking of selling computers as a business, but this is a one time deal. I have two computers that I want to sell and was looking to TG for advice.
FLA94FD,
Comparing either of these setups to a Walmart computer is not a serious post. By the way, $400+ was the cheapest I could find with monitor; if you want dumbed down processor, on-board video, 512 megs of Ram and 80 Gig HD. Retail on dual raptor drives is $200-300, not to mention very fast ram, SLI board and dual 6600 GT cards, P4 3.0 (630) processor, etc. Setup 1 might have an older P4 2.6 processor and mobo, but 2 gigs of ram, 500 gigs of HD (raid 0) and 512 megs of video memory is a quite a bit more than basic computers. If $200-300 is the best I could get, I might as well continue to keep them and make them into a web server or something fun.
I can't give a very accurate price but for the 2nd setup you can get more than 200 bucks for sure. It may be worth more parted out though, probably a fair amount more.
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Ok.. you might do better selling the hard drives seperate from the rest of the system. Trying to sell the system, you are going to get a depressed price because buying new is so cheap. However, compents are on their own can fetch you more money.
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You think the PCs at Wal-Mart have that sort of video subsystems? Every one that I see has onboard graphics... am I missing something?
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You think the PCs at Wal-Mart have that sort of video subsystems? Every one that I see has onboard graphics... am I missing something?
No, you just found the Idiot of the Day(tm).
Agreed. Now that we've ganked him, let's camp his corpse!
I wouldn't pay $300 for the system you are offering. You should look at ebay. You would be surprised at how competitive the ones that sell are. Notice - the ones that sell. For $630 I could get a PlayStation 3 with the Cell processor and Yellow Dog Linux.
"the system I am offering" - did you even read my post and notice I mentioned two systems.
The Cell processor inside the P3 sounds pretty cool, but the whole system doesn't really sound like a computer replacement system yet. Sure, you can develop stuff on it using Linux, but can you do day to day stuff or even non-P3 gaming on it?
I think that I will try to see what the system as a whole can get, and if I am not satisfied, I think I will break it up and sell the parts. I appreciate everyone's input.
yes, actually I did read it, I guess I just didn't check that. In any case, selling a pentium 4 on ebay isn't going to get you much, unfortunately. The only systems that make a lot of money are those with very neat looking cases, and high end components.
no, the ps3 will probably not be great for non-ps3 games, but in any case the games made with sony's dev kit is probably better.
I wanted to get into the ebay selling as well, but unfortunately I don't have the $2000 for components necessary to build a system that would make a significant profit. In any case, good luck.
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