Does 3DMark score affect sale price?

[Lord Of Dorkness]

Title.

Assumed it did, but was suddenly unsure, and wonder if I've been wasting a bit of time.

[mlnhead1]

Yes it does. If you go above a 10,000 score you open yourself up to almost double the bids.
Thing is you have to cheat enough clients out of their graphics cards and processors to get much payoff. If you buy any new parts they will only give you somewhere around used value for those parts. Just like if you bought a part at the store, then just decided to sell it out of your inventory.
At the same time, usually you can get plenty of cheap used cases that aren't good for gaming; so you can still make some money off of the low end R3's and Intel dual core, along with those space consuming GTX960's and R9 380's you have laying around.

[spanki2]

Yes 3DMark affects sale price greatly. Without running 3Dmark the PC you assembled is worth only used parts price + $100 bonus if it launches to OS. But once you bechmark it the sale price gets multiplied x1-x3 depending on the 3Dmark score, where 1000 3DMark points is x1 multiplier and 10000 3Dmark points is x3 multiplier.

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Don't forget you can also overclock the parts before running 3dmark to get a higher 3dmark score for free before selling them.

[user19990313]

I'll quote myself here:

The basic idea is that:
1. A fully assembled PC worth 1/3 of its actual value in brand new parts
2. If the PC can boot to OS, +$100
3. If you don't benchmark the PC, or the mark is lower than 1000, no bonus
4. If you get a benchmark at least 10000, you triple the value of the PC (excluding boot to OS bonus)
5. If the benchmark is between 1000 and 10000, the bonus interpolates between part 3 and 4 every 200 mark. This means a mark of 4999 and 5000 has the same bonus, but mark of 5001 has a little more because it steps into the section of the next 200 marks.

This is for standard career mode PC bay, not for selling PC in IT expansion.

[mlnhead1]

Thanks good info.