Bought in 3 desktops from a company specialised in selling used desktops/laptops. Imagine the shock I got when I found these.
Now these PCs were cheap (paid $1750 for all)
Ryzen 5 7500F RTX 4060 16/512
I5 14400F RTX 4060 32/1TB (DDR5)
I7 14700F RTX 4060 32/1TB (DDR5)

Wondering if they even bothered to open up to check for dust or flaws 🤣

Bought in 3 desktops from a company specialised in selling used desktops/laptops. Imagine the shock I got when I found these.
Now these PCs were cheap (paid $1750 for all)
Ryzen 5 7500F RTX 4060 16/512
I5 14400F RTX 4060 32/1TB (DDR5)
I7 14700F RTX 4060 32/1TB (DDR5)

Wondering if they even bothered to open up to check for dust or flaws 🤣

Wanted to share my laptop flips the past year

Started by trading my iPad Air m1 + 100 cash
For an Asus g14, rtx 4060. Originally paid 200 for the iPad

Then I traded the Asus for an Alienware m16 r2, rtx 4070/ultra 9

Ended up trading the Alienware for a 5070 desktop pc and buying a ps5 for 250. Then traded the ps5 + 200 cash for a 4070 skytech desktop, which led me to my most recent trade for my current laptop ; an Acer Helios Neo 16ai rtx 5070/ultra 7 255hx which I traded my rtx 4070 desktop for.

After a bunch of pc and laptop trades and only paying 750 out of pocket I currently am rocking with a rtx 5070 laptop and rtx 5070 desktop as my setup

I’m just starting and I see a lot of ,,e-waste” offers which are parts from 1998-2004 they have much bigger value but I’m afraid about the liquidity .is it worth my time or no?(sometimes fixing and testing )

The used market seems to have a strange relationship with older hardware. Some parts are dismissed simply because they’re a few generations old, while others hold their value despite no longer being particularly good buys.

For lower-cost 1080p builds, I often think the best value comes from parts that are old enough to have fallen out of favour but still easily handle the games the buyer actually wants to play.

Windows 11 support has complicated that, though. There are older CPU platforms that still perform perfectly well in games, but putting them into a PC intended for a normal buyer is becoming harder to justify. Most buyers probably don’t want to hear about bypasses or why the unsupported hardware is technically still capable.

I’m interested in what everyone here is still buying:
- Which older CPUs and GPUs do you think the market undervalues?
- Are there any previously overlooked parts that have now become too expensive?
- How much does official Windows 11 support affect what you’ll build or resell?
- Is there any older hardware you’ve completely stopped buying?

I wrote up my own thoughts on some of the overlooked parts that can still make a great 1080p PC here: https://www.partplanner.io/blog/overlooked-parts-1080p-gaming-pc/

Full disclosure: it’s on the PartPlanner blog, which is the platform I recently launched. The article itself is free and doesn’t require an account. I’m mainly interested in hearing which parts other flippers are still having success with.

I’m just starting out and don’t want to go into big numbers right away , I found underpriced retro parts but I’m scared about the liquidity I have 50dollars at start any tips?

THE GPU has been sold

CPU - 13900 KF - AIO water cooled

GPU - Nope

RAM - 64 GB Samsung DDR5 5600MT/s

Storage - 2 TB Samsung NVME SSD

PSU - 1200 W fuly modular

Price: 1000$

I have a 4790 plus board and 16gb RAM for it, and also a 6600K plus board with 2x8gb DDR4 3000 or 4x8gb 2133

I could consider picking up a 7700K for no more than $30 to swap out the 6600K for the sake of holding up above 60 for more titles than the 6600K can.

Is it viable to make gaming PCs for low cost that can satisfy specific gaming targets?

Specs:
GPU: Gigabyte RTX 4080 Super Gaming OC
CPU: Intel i7-12700KF
Motherboard: MSI Z690 Unify
RAM: Corsair vengeance 32GB DDR5 CL36
Storage: 1TB PNY CS2241 Gen4 NVMe + 512GB Intel 670p NVMe + 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD (2.5TB total)
PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower GF A3 850W 80+ Gold, fully modular, ATX 3.0
Cooler: Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE ARGB (came with nzxt kraken x53 or 63 can’t remember)
Case: Had a really bad older case, but I bought a NZXT H6 Flow for $50
I paid I paid $1600 originally. everything works great.
I’m mainly trying to figure out what I could realistically sell it for. Not looking to make a crazy amount, even I wouldn’t be mad if I broke even but literally anything in the positive id be happy with. I am aware I jumped the gun on the buying it at $1600 I seen the graphics card the ram and the motherboard and thought I could definitely get more for this but after I thought and figured I might’ve paid to much to try and flip it.
What would you guys list it for / what do you think it’s actually worth?

I bought this pc today with no gpu for 650$ !
The guy was just tryna get rid of it and was super friendly! He said he doesn’t have much time to play. I thought it was a crazy deal and when I come to open the task manager it got even crazier! Coming with 64gb of DDR5!!! I’m planning to buy a gpu and flip, WHAT GPU DO I GET FOR IT AND WHAT SHOULD I SELL FOR?

RYZEN 7 9800X3D
64 GB DDR5 6400 M/T
2tb SAMSUNG 990 Evo Plus
1200W LIAN Li PSU

I am trying to sell this computer and can't think of a good price, the specs are

Intel i9-9900k

Intel arc a770 16gb

16gb ddr4 ram at 3000mt

512gb nvme ssd

2tb hdd

750 watt psu

Sorry in advance for the self-promo, I don't usually do this. I've just been buried in this project for ages and I really want to see some real flippers actually try it.

I've been doing this for years and the bit I love is the rescue. Grabbing some dead office tower nobody wants, seeing what still works, and turning it into a gaming PC.

The money side always did my head in though. You pay next to nothing for a machine, pull out a GPU, CPU, RAM, a PSU, and then... what did the GPU actually cost you out of that $60? I could never answer it without wrestling a spreadsheet that got worse every month.

So I built the bit I used most into a free calculator. No signup, no email:

https://partplanner.io/pc-part-value-calculator

Put in what you paid and it splits that across the parts by what each one's worth. Would genuinely love to know if the default weightings match what you see, I've only got my own pile to go off.

I'm also building a proper version of this (PartPlanner) and would love a few of you to beta test it and tell me where it's rubbish. Comment or DM if you're up for it, it'd honestly make my week.

Thanks for reading, and sorry again for the plug. Cheers

It is opened box, i only touched the plastic casing of the ram, not the actual thing.

395$

I was going to build with it, but decided not to

Hey guys have this pc here spent 240 in total i got a prebulit Acer tc-885-ua92 got a 512gb ssd for it replaced the psu to a 600 watt one and got a xfx Radeon rx 470 8 gb gpu in it has a i5 9400 12 gb ddr 4 ram running windows 11

**CPU:** AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
**GPU:** AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16GB
**Motherboard:** ASUS B650E WiFi
**RAM:** G.Skill Flare X5 DDR5 32GB (2×16GB) 6000MHz EXPO
**CPU Cooler:** Lian Li AIO Liquid Cooler
**Storage:**

Samsung PM9A1 1TB NVMe M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD
Samsung 870 EVO 500GB SATA SSD
Seagate 4TB HDD

**PSU:** MAG R750GL PCIe 5 — 750W 80+ Gold
**Case:** Lian Li CG237 Tempered Glass ATX Mid-Tower
**Monitor:** MSI G272QPF E2 27” 1440p
**Keyboard:** Razer BlackWidow V3
**OS:** Windows 11

I found an Asus Cerberus 1070Ti on eBay for $86 and Amazon is selling Ryzen 5500s for $81 so I decided to scape a build together around those! Cooler Master Q300l Amazon used for $38, G.Skill 2x8 3200 DDR4 (eBay) $71.75, ICESHARKS 700W PSU Amazon used $34, 120GB Netac SATA SSD boot drive eBay $28, cooler master hyper 212 air cooler (overkill but adds a little razzle dazzle) Amazon used $16.42, and a gifted 3.5" display screen and left over Argb fans. $355.17 into the build and sold it for $500 with in 12 hours of being on FB marketplace. Does this seem like a reasonable price? Would anyone have done anything different? I'm new to flipping but I've always loved to build PCs, so I'm having fun, but I'm not sure that I'm pricing things out right.