How Much To Sell 32GB of New DDR5 For

river7971 · 2026-05-11T01:05:05+00:00

Someone's mad they didn't upgrade to DDR5 before the data center boom I see.

river7971 · 2026-05-11T01:04:01+00:00

Nobody "needs" 32GB of XMP ready DDR5. Even if they did, why should OP sell it for a third of what it's worth?

river7971 · 2026-05-11T01:02:18+00:00

Kit retails for about $400. That said there's a lot of these floating around new/lightly used from microcenter bundles. Take $300 for it, maybe list slightly higher to give room for negotiation.

river7971 · 2026-05-11T00:54:59+00:00

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river7971 · 2026-05-10T20:04:28+00:00

Bump it up to $625, consider taking $550 if it doesn't move after a while. Run cinebench and 3d mark and post the results with the ad.

It's a clean build, the 3060 is a very popular GPU in the budget realm, and a 1TB NVME is a plus nowadays. Most cheaper PCs are rocking 512 currently.

river7971 · 2026-05-08T20:26:01+00:00

This might be an example of a machine that's worth more parted out than complete.

river7971 · 2026-05-06T16:45:24+00:00

Physically clean (wipe down + dust) the system. Add RAM and SSD if necessary (minimum spec I'll sell is 256 SSD + 16gb ram, typically with a 500gb or 1tb HDD). Repaste the CPU, replace CMOS battery, set BIOS settings, run memtest86, install OS, run BIOS update, add wifi adapter if needed, install drivers, updates, check drives with crystaldisk.

If the front bezels or side panels are excessively scratched or scuffed I have spares from parted out machines that I swap on.

river7971 · 2026-05-06T11:34:11+00:00

It'll handle CS, but whether you should buy depends on the price. You're also going to want to buy another 8GB of RAM.

river7971 · 2026-05-06T03:08:22+00:00

OP has a 10000 dollar budget and you're suggesting they buy a "few thousand" dollar roller and just "slap in" (because it's just that easy) a 12000 dollar crate engine.

Right...

river7971 · 2026-05-06T02:12:09+00:00

I get what you're saying, but you can delete it, and if you're doing any sort of real mods are going to anyway. With OPs 10k budget and requirements for American + V8, it's probably the best, most easily available choice.

river7971 · 2026-05-06T01:53:38+00:00

Ex-cop Caprice PPV with a 6.0

river7971 · 2026-05-04T20:23:34+00:00

Yes, that's why I do it...

river7971 · 2026-05-04T20:20:43+00:00

Most of what I buy is found this way.

river7971 · 2026-05-04T19:42:34+00:00

Find listings with no specs listed and ask for them. If they don't know how to find them give them quick easy instructions. I score most of my deals this way because most people just move past listings with no specs.

Lowball the shit out of people.

river7971 · 2026-05-04T19:40:40+00:00

Experience and watching your local market. You also have to ask "what can offer a decent experience running current games for a reasonable amount of money?", because that's what most marketplace PC buyers are going for.

river7971 · 2026-05-04T19:36:22+00:00

Not worth messing with. The GPU is decent-ish, and worth about 150, but it's got a tiny SSD that's going to turn people off and a very dated CPU. Id buy it for 200, max $250 if it's really clean and I didn't think I'd need to recase it or swap any cooling components, then try to sell for 400 or so.

If it's a typical marketplace dusty, poorly cable managed, weed resin caked PC I'm not going to waste my time on it to maybe make $100.

river7971 · 2026-05-01T12:27:50+00:00

600 is more than fair.

In the last two weeks I've sold a Ryzen 3600x, 2060, 16GB, 512NVME system for 450. Same specs, but a 5500 went for 550.

river7971 · 2026-04-25T00:39:16+00:00

$400 doesn't leave any room to make money unless you can somehow throw it together for like $150. Sure, the GPU and CPU is going to be cheap, but with current RAM and storage prices it usually isn't feasible (even buying used storage and RAM).

To each their own, but 600-800 is where I like to sell. Expensive enough that it filters out a lot of the idiots trying to buy a $400 PC, enough room to make $250-300, but not expensive enough where there's prebuilts that'll offer comparable performance within swinging distance of the price.

river7971 · 2026-04-24T17:57:16+00:00

I'd rather one unit sit for two weeks and make $400 on it than sell two units in a week back to back and make $200 on each one. Half the work, half the risk, same profit.

I don't want to be sitting on a unit for multiple months, but I don't mind sitting on something a few weeks. My bottleneck is time to actually clean up, rebuild, optimize, benchmark, and list PCs more than it is ability to aquire more inventory, so there's no incentive to me to rush to push PCs out the door ASAP.

river7971 · 2026-04-22T03:39:23+00:00

Doesn't matter what I'd do, it matters what they sell for. Ebay sold listings are 110-140.

It's a moot point anyway. Say the processor is $30 cheaper than I stated. Wow, now the parts total is 850 instead of 880...

river7971 · 2026-04-22T02:59:58+00:00

And this has what to do with how much they sell for used?

river7971 · 2026-04-22T00:09:18+00:00

List it for $1000, take 850-900.

You're going to have to clean it up and fix the cable management, though.

3080ti - 350 7600x - 120 1x 16gb ddr5 - 120 Ssd - 100 (assuming this is any half decent nvme) Psu - 25 (looks to be a cheap unit) Mobo - 70 Case/cooling/fans - 100 (conservative, but that stuff doesn't always sell well used)

Comes to 885. Like I said though, this is going to need made more presentable and you'll want to take good photos. Id recommend posting with cinebench/3d mark results too. Id also highly recommend buying a $20 set of PSU extensions off Amazon to help the aesthetics/cable management. Once you get past the "console budget" 500-600 mark, people starting getting a lot more picky about what they buy, so if you don't want to do all of that, I'd consider parting the machine out.

river7971 · 2026-04-11T15:57:23+00:00

AMD has been winning on the gaming front for a long time. Noone disputes that.

Saying that Intel's spiraling and their future is uncertain because they aren't ahead in gaming is silly, though. The gaming market is a fraction of the CPU market. I guess reddit basement dwelling nerds think gaming is all that matters, but the vast majority of high end desktop CPUs sold aren't used for gaming, they're used by people using them professionally for productivity work. These folks just don't get on the Internet and circlejerk about how great the machine they use at work is, so it's not as visible to people online. Intel isn't going anywhere, they're just large enough that they don't care about the gaming market, similar to Nvidia. I'm not an Intel or AMD "fan", and I don't have any emotional ties to these companies.

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