I have bought a system only recently exclusively for gaming. (hooked up to my Samsung 4K TV)
Core i7 7700k, GTX 1080 Ti, 32 GB Corsair Vengeance RAM, 1 TB SSD, ASUS ROG STRIX Z270i.
I find myself playing games 6-10 hours a month on PC. (I have a PS4 Pro but use it only for PS4 exclusives)
Should I sell my PC? What do you guys think?
Thanks.
You could just sell the graphics card, which is a significant chunk of $$$ although because the mining boom has somewhat deflated you won't get as much as you normally would during the boom
How much?
2300$. I don't mind incurring some loss. Would i be better off selling it at 2300$ and then say invest 3000$ six months from now in another PC?
what do you do now, or plan to do in the future, that requires something even more powerful than 7700k + 32GB RAM rig? As far as I can tell, your system is still very much top-end.
Well, except for the CPU, that's no longer top end since 6-core Coffee Lake is here.
if you cannot think of anything apart from 'gaming', your current system is best left as it is and it will continue to serve you well for the next few years
If you no longer play games then sell just the graphics card and use iGPU.
Nothing more than gaming scrimshaw! Thank you for your suggestion.
You clearly don't have any problems with money (or, you do, and are SO clueless), and this entire question is starting to sound troll-ey.
Also i7 and 32GB RAM for a gaming PC, you also have no tech idea either.
Do what you want, you obviously don't care about the money.
Yes for money
Then blow it all on OzBargain.
Or hookers and cocaine.
Why sell, mine so coin or Ethereum etc.
Can you please elaborate? Do you mean bitcoins? I don't have much information on this. Thanks
Ethereum mining is the process of having your computer solve mathematics puzzles. This requires mainly your graphics card to do so. In exchange, you earn a monetary reward (crypto-currency)
The costs of mining is basically your electricity… plus maintenance cost on your hardware (stress on your parts, they will eventually die after a while)
Due to increases in energy bills (increase cost of mining) and also increasing difficulty of the math puzzles (the puzzles take longer and longer to solve after a certain interval of time) the return on investment declines over time.
Search Youtube and there's a lot of explanations for it, all I gave you was a very simplified answer.
Mining bitcoins isn't worth it. The small amount you gain is less than electricity bills it takes to earn it.
Maybe ok if you run solar panel.
Why spend the money then sell it at a 20%-30% loss, might as well keep it as long as you can, and get the value out of it since most of the depreciation has already happened.
You could perhaps wear it as a hat
sell excess parts. you will need a pc one way another, why not keep them?
sell 1080ti for cheap (2nd hand around 700-780), sell 16gb ram for 100 or more.
Do you need the money? Then yes
Otherwise no, you’ll spend all your time parting it out to avoid taking a bigger loss than if you sold it built