What to do with my old broken computer?

My old laptop died and it was over 4 years old, so I just bought a new one. The best the tech could figure out is that it has a bad motherboard. I'm keeping it's hard drive to use with my new computer. It's a Gateway 450 ROG, original cost about $2,500.
Does anyone buy old junker computers?

 

I dont, But you could sell it on Ebay for the parts that eork in it (CPU, GPU, Monitor, etc.)

 

You might be able to find a buyer on eBay. So long as just the motherboard is bad, the CPU, RAM, hard drive, possibly even video card, and CD drive are still usable. You won't fetch anywhere near the price you paid for it of course, but you might be able to sell it either to someone who sells parts, or if you disassemble it, sell the parts to people looking for upgrade parts for old machines. You might even find a buyer for the screen.

Looking it up quickly, it appears that you should be able to take out the CPU, RAM, and CD drive with a bit of work. GPU I doubt, most laptop GPU's are not replaceable.

 

Definetly Ebay. You dont even need to take out the parts. Just sell "as-is". Say that the mobo is shot and give the rest of the specs in it and say "for parts or repair". That should work well. If you look on eBay, you will find multiple items listed under 'laptop for parts"

 

Worth nothing! Not even on Ebay!

 

I wouldn't say nothing. Maybe close to it though. Probably around $50 maybe $100. Depending on specs.

 

OK sure, I am a pessimist. And since he already scavenged things like HDD. I thought 0, But I could be wrong.

 

Well, I did a quick search. You can get a new PM at around $70 new at 1.86Ghz. So used say around $20 and depending on the speed of his, that could go either up or down. Then added to the screen and memory, you couldguess around $50 to maybe $100 if he is lucky. Maybe I'm wrong, but it sounds pretty reasonable to me. Anyway, I would try to sell it. If it doesn't sell the first 2 times you post, then I would look into taking the individual parts and components out.

 

yes its easily worth money on ebay iv bought 3 broken ones off ebay and parted out and repaired them and iv sold one a horrible dell with a bad motherboad it only included the celeron cpu disc drive screen and plastics including keyboard it sold for $76 no memory or hard drive

 

Well I was wrong. I will try and be less pessimistic in the future. On Ebay there is a market for everything, I guess?

 

Key words on eBay. They have about everything there. Even cereal boxes that sell for $6,000.

(They have prizes in them that are worth around $6,000) Some crazy guy does it constantly.