Is a price of 900€ for following second hand setup ok? Thanks for your opinion

[Shabanak]

Just want to hear your opinion as I am not into the technical stuff anymore.

Intel i7-8700K
Gigabyte AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 8G
Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 3000MHz
Asus ROG Strix Z370-I Gaming
NZXT H200i - Mini-ITX
Corsair 650 Watt
Samsung SSD 8401TB
Seagate 3TB

Best regards
Shabanak

 

[Pifanjr]

Do you know why the person selling it is getting rid of it?

 

[Shabanak]

Because he is changing to use a notebook. The system looks really clean on the pictures.

 

[Pifanjr]

Filling all the stuff in on https://pcpartpicker.com/ I get to a price of $2000 and that's with me choosing the cheapest options of the parts that have several editions that would fit your description. It could easily be a few hundred more.

It seems to me like it's a very good deal. I would suggest not finalizing the deal until you've had a chance to see it running on max capacity, just to make sure nothing starts overheating or otherwise crashing.

 

[Shabanak]

Dear Pifanjr,

thank you alot for taking time and your valuable input. It really helps.

Best regards

 

[Oussebon]

That's not a 2000€ build. Not even close.

It might be if you picked those specific, out of date components, which have higher prices because they're not being made any more. But if you picked the modern equivalent / replacements that even perform better then it should be a lot less.

e.g.

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i5-10600K 4.1 GHz 6-Core Processor (€291.46 @ ARLT)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (€28.99 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z490 AORUS ELITE AC ATX LGA1200 Motherboard (€189.90 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory (€142.90 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Crucial MX500 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€93.79 @ Mindfactory)
Storage: Toshiba P300 3 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€67.16 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8 GB (1-Click OC) Video Card (€387.99 @ Mindfactory)
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P400A Digital ATX Mid Tower Case (€109.00 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Power Supply: Corsair RM (2019) 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (€102.26 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €1413.45
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-07-27 15:20 CEST+0200

And of course, if you were self-building or even buying a prebuild, you wouldn't have to buy that. You wouldn't have to buy an i5 10600k + Z490 board if an R5 3600 + B450 / B550 would do. You wouldn't have to buy 32gb RAM if 16gb is more than enough. If you're gaming at 1080p, you wouldn't have to buy a 2060 Super if an RX 5600 XT is more than enough for you. And so forth.

Performance per € it's probably still better than what you can get brand new. But of course, it comes with 0 warranty. And just because the seller says it's fine and they are upgrading to a laptop doesn't mean it's true - or that the PC doesn't have a fault they don't know about.

Ultimately it's your call if the savings are worth going 2nd hand - 900€ is still a lot of money.

 

[Oussebon]

A new parts build making a few cuts might look something like this, just for ref:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor (€167.99 @ Mindfactory)
Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty B450 GAMING K4 ATX AM4 Motherboard (€92.99 @ Mindfactory)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory (€79.88 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Crucial MX500 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€93.79 @ Mindfactory)
Storage: Toshiba P300 3 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€67.16 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB KO GAMING Video Card (€299.00 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P400A Digital ATX Mid Tower Case (€109.00 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Power Supply: Corsair RM (2019) 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (€102.26 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €1012.07
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-07-27 15:27 CEST+0200

 

[Shabanak]

Hello Oussebon,

that puts things in perspective thank you very much for your input!!

Best regards

 

[Shabanak]

Performance per € it's probably still better than what you can get brand new. But of course, it comes with 0 warranty. And just because the seller says it's fine and they are upgrading to a laptop doesn't mean it's true - or that the PC doesn't have a fault they don't know about.

Ultimately it's your call if the savings are worth going 2nd hand - 900€ is still a lot of money.

Zero Warranty is true. But I will at least be able to run it and I normally tend to trust people. Of course I look at overall presentation. At least on the pictures the system looked very good and taken care of. Also the seller answered all questions in a very short amount of time. Which for me are also signs its not a rip off. Nevertheless these are points which shouldn't be taken light heartedly thats totally true. Thanks again for taking your time.