Resale value doesn't increase after overclocking

[McGrudush]

I read in several guides that overclocking is a way to increase the resale value for PCBay but whenever I do that, the resale value doesn't change (see screenshots https://imgur.com/a/RQfhRDZ). Honestly, that makes overclocking pretty pointless. Was this changed in a recent update or am I seeing a bug?

[🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊]

I think you just need a bigger increase for it to appear to be better. You're only +1768 points there. That's barely enough to be noticable.

[iVAN]

More than ten thousand

[McGrudush]

I see, thanks. So what gains can I even expect? Like, a 10 dollar increase in resale value for spending quite some time to optimize OC doesn't seem worth it. I can't get any more OC out of this particular system anyway which is the best I can build from used part at the moment

[iVAN]

Order of profit:
Sell old computers > upgrade hardware > repair > install

An old computer is worth more than ten thousand cents. No amount of it makes sense.

利润的顺序：
销售旧电脑>升级硬件>维修>装机

旧电脑大于一万分就可以了。再多也没意义。

[BonPadre]

Originally posted by McGrudush:

I see, thanks. So what gains can I even expect? Like, a 10 dollar increase in resale value for spending quite some time to optimize OC doesn't seem worth it. I can't get any more OC out of this particular system anyway which is the best I can build from used part at the moment

The way I do it personally.

I don't increase "artificially" the price by using a lot of useless parts.
In your pic you have like 3 storage devices, and in my opinion, that's a waste. I don't know how many used drives you have, but personally I know that after a certain point, I start to run low on storage devices.
And as they don't increase the score (therefore the expanded selling price from OC PC's), it's better to sell more used PC's with 1 storage device, than less PC's with many storage devices.

Same with any non essential parts on which you could run out of stock.

Then you need to OC the PC to the MAX you can, as some already stated, not just by a bit. Therefore, one of the important trick, is to have the correct PSU that gives you enough juice to OC the GPU('s) to the max.
That make no sense to OC a dual GPU on a let's say 550W PSU (while that dual GPU config could run on a 500W PSU when not OC) and have only that spare 50W to OC.

But that's useless to have 800W PSU if you build a dual GPU that will use only 650W. Save the bigger PSU's for the more demanding GPU's.
That's a fine balance to find.

Finally, when I OC a used PC to the best it can be OC, the estimated price is doubled at least, yes, BUT and thet's the big BUT...
From the initial price of parts BEFORE you turn on the PC. So the total price of Used parts value you can read once fully assembled, but not booted to OS

The game mechanics are those :
Initial price is the price of used parts value total.
You turn ON the PC and it boots and have an OS = instantly +$100 from initial value, regardless of total starting value.

Then if you run a benchmark, that's the BIGGEST step up from initial price.

And then if you OC, you gain more (from a little bit to a bigger increase) from from the last value from first benchmark.

I think the way you looked at it is what makes you think it does not worth the time and effort, but you need to think from the moment you assembled the parts, and that very first value, BEFORE you turn on the PC.

Also, I never benchmarked twice... hence it's hard for me to say how much I gain between OC and not OC but benchmarked.
When I OC my PC's, I make sure I run stable while running OCCT on infinite, and only once I have OC to a point I'm happy with, I benchmark at this moment only.

I hope it helps you understand how we came with the "more than double" value you have seen on other comments.

[McGrudush]

thank you for the detailed response. I have noticed that with some systems I really do see the resale value increase even with fairly small OC (such as RAM OC only). That makes it even less understandable why I have the exact same resale value with a 20% higher benchmark in the screenshots (and other cases that I didn't screenshot)