I have the option to buy this entirely new PC for €2,200, including a 24-month warranty. If I trade in my current system, I estimate the effective cost would be around €1,500. My current PC has a Ryzen 5 5600, Sapphire Nitro+ RX 6700 XT, 32GB of G.Skill RAM, an MSI B450 Gaming Carbon motherboard, an NZXT H510 case, and a 250GB SSD. I believe it could be worth roughly €600–€700, although I'm unsure how much a retailer would actually offer as a trade-in.
The new system includes a Ryzen 7 9850X3D, DeepCool LE360 V2 liquid cooler, Asus TUF B650-Plus motherboard, 32GB of Kingston DDR5-6000 CL30 RGB memory, a 2TB Kingston NV3 SSD, an XFX RX 9070 XT OC graphics card, a Cooler Master Elite ARGB case, a Super Flower Leadex Platinum 1200W power supply, and Windows 11 Pro. Is €2,200 reasonable, or would I be better off keeping my current PC? I'm also considering replacing the motherboard and would appreciate recommendations if that makes sense.
3 Answers
The deal doesn’t look terrible for a prebuilt with current component prices, especially with the warranty. That said, your existing PC is still perfectly usable and the performance jump may not feel large enough to justify upgrading if you don’t actually need more performance. It would be worth pricing every component through a local parts comparison site before deciding.
Before changing the motherboard, I’d want to know what problem you’re trying to solve. The Asus TUF B650-Plus should be adequate for this setup, so replacing it may not improve gaming performance. Put the proposed build into a parts-pricing tool and compare the total against the seller’s price, paying particular attention to the SSD, cooler, case, and power supply rather than focusing only on the CPU and GPU.
I’d try to sell the current system or its parts separately rather than accept a trade-in. A retailer probably won’t give you the full €600–€700 value. The CPU, graphics card, RAM, and remaining parts may add up to around that amount privately, but a trade-in offer will usually be considerably lower.
That’s a fair point. I’m not in urgent need of a new PC, so I’ll probably keep my current system for now. I was mainly wondering whether prices might become even worse later, and I may have underestimated the value of the 32GB RAM kit.