Lower the price, computer stuff resells for shit.

Once again, ramming through on the price point (sorry).
The key issue is that despite those parts performing great individually, you are locking the purchaser into the previous generation. The card will perform great, but an average new card might look better due to DX11 support.
Even worse with the processor. With that socket you are locking the purchaser into the previous generation of motherboards on top of it. The processor is great, but if they want to upgrade either that or the mobo, they will have to cough up a lot of money as they need to replace both. Needless to say, the motherboards are hardly being manufactured any more, making the good ones of the previous generation very expensive. Not the wisest of investments. Also, finding good triple channel RAM for that mobo can be expensive and is a pita.


I'm only saying this because I recently sold my mate some computer parts. For 200 pounds, I gave him an i7 920, GTX 285 (BFG), a very decent case (purchased for about 80 quid), LCD screen, G500 gaming mouse, crappy keyboard, a very good hard surface mouse mat and all the cables he could require. To be honest, I felt a bad for him. All he needed was a mobo, RAM, a cooler and a HDD, but it all ended up being quite expensive. His rig can run pretty much anything at max or almost max settings including Shogun 2, but this doesn't change the fact that his upgrade capabilities are somewhat restricted.

Just a follow up since you all tried to help me...

I took your general advice and posted the PC on craigslist. (not a fan of the process and I'm not a salesman... but I thought somebody could put the PC to use).

I had planned on doing what some suggested and post vids to help people make a buying decision. But also wanted to hurry and get it posted soon as I could see it depreciate before my very eyes ;)

I posted an add with simply part numbers and a price for $700.00. I planned to come back and add picks and vids after I got home. The update feature didn't work so my add was ugly and pretty uninformed since I wanted alot of details in the videos.

I was planning to just re-post and 3 people contacted me before I could. One followed through and came out to look at it. It didn't come with Windows and he asked if I would go lower. (not being the salesman...) I jumped straight down to my break point. I wasn't going to let it go for less than $500.00, so I went there. SALE!

Thanks for the thoughts, pointers, and discussion.

Here is a copy of Resonance (for one person :p) if you don't already have it.

Just remember... the first part goes last ;)

CNF8
KTVH
JVF7
PDZD

Already claimed.

hey, thank you, wasn't expecting a code standing alone in a place like this... and Resonance? Just what i need to fix my adventure need...
sorry for not helping you, but really thanks!
Guess i'll just have to wait to play now... p

This is why I don't generally bother trying to resell. I'll take the parts that are useful for me and donate the rest to charity. They'll use them as spare parts and sell the systems or give them to the needy.

The depreciation of components has lessened somewhat from when I started using them, but it is still quite fast and for $500 you can get a pretty decent system put together.

Same. I generally give away, but everyone I knew in decent distance was all set. And since it was a full blown high end PC, I knew someone could use it. With some luck, it can last them 3+ years... so I hope it works very well for them.

Now for the really sucky part... I got rid of the ginormous case and all those boxes... now I have no excuse to not clean the rest of my office :/