Appraisal for Bundle Open-SFF Server (Optiplex 3010 w/ Quadro P600 & i7-3770 upgrades & others)

Carrson · Feb 9, 2026

Hi BBB community,

Just popping on here for a quick appraisal of my old server.
I'm retiring it after 8 years of service, after many upgrades. It's an 8-threaded server with an i7-3770 (non-k) and an NVIDIA Quadro P600 2GB (Pascal, CUDA 12 supp., uses Mini-PCIe to PCI-e 16x conversion, which limits peak throughput; but I'd imagine with only 2GB of VRAM it's not capping much).

It recently had a power supply replacement and was running 24/7 with automatic power on after power loss (perfect for smart plug setups).
It has green LEDs installed.
New thermal paste.
120GB SSD, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM, USB 3.0 & 2.0
Room for an additional 2.5" drive.
Runs Ubuntu Server (with KDE Plasma D.E)
Bundled with USB 3.0 WIFI, MagicJack (internet phone line), DisplayPort to HDMI, dummy HDMI adapter (enable hardware acceleration for your RDP, VNC client).
SFF and open-air; OptiPlex 3010-based (Intel H61 chipset).

It's a bit of a bizarre form factor, and it's open-air, but it's perfect for tight spaces and decently powerful for Docker containers, some game servers, and some decent VM work; it's basically a modest & good server.
Selling it for $198, including shipping on eBay, should I make it higher or lower? Curious to hear some opinions.

Here's the listing, let me know if this is good: https://www.ebay.com/itm/147141169176

X1XX · Feb 11, 2026

Your price is too high. It's cheaper to buy new gen mini pcs (think NUC, GMTEK, Minisforum, Beelink, etc..) due to using significantly newer cpus with lower TDP's, they also have newer ram (meaning unlikely to run out any time soon, even though DDR3 and DDR4 is discontinued production, DDR4 will be more available). Upfront, the mini pcs cost more, but around the 12month mark, a lot of them with the same performance and more storage are around the same cost (and they have 1 year warranties, so it's guaranteed replacement if something goes wrong, unlike yours). At the 2 year mark the mini pcs are significantly cheaper. (Your optiplex is $67/year in electricity, the mini pcs are $13/year in electricity for same enough performance). That is if they last that long, there are reliability concerns sometimes with them, but if i had to choose, there is a clear winner here.

Carrson · Feb 11, 2026

X1XX said:
Your price is too high. It's cheaper to buy new gen mini pcs (think NUC, GMTEK, Minisforum, Beelink, etc..) due to using significantly newer cpus with lower TDP's, they also have newer ram (meaning unlikely to run out any time soon, even though DDR3 and DDR4 is discontinued production, DDR4 will be more available). Upfront, the mini pcs cost more, but around the 12month mark, a lot of them with the same performance and more storage are around the same cost (and they have 1 year warranties, so it's guaranteed replacement if something goes wrong, unlike yours). At the 2 year mark the mini pcs are significantly cheaper. (Your optiplex is $67/year in electricity, the mini pcs are $13/year in electricity for same enough performance). That is if they last that long, there are reliability concerns sometimes with them, but if i had to choose, there is a clear winner here.

Hey, so what do you recommend I list it at?

Doing the math it's something like $120 all in on parts (generous; those parts are worth more), the shipping is around 30-40 dollars then there's the fee from the marketplace which is around 15% for eBay.
Would I have better luck parting it out and selling those individually in your opinion?

At 200 dollars your pretty much getting the cost of the parts.

Maybe pitching it not as a a server but a CUDA enabled workstation PC?

X1XX · Feb 14, 2026

Carrson said:
Hey, so what do you recommend I list it at?

Doing the math it's something like $120 all in on parts (generous; those parts are worth more), the shipping is around 30-40 dollars then there's the fee from the marketplace which is around 15% for eBay.
Would I have better luck parting it out and selling those individually in your opinion?

At 200 dollars your pretty much getting the cost of the parts.

Maybe pitching it not as a a server but a CUDA enabled workstation PC?

You likely are better off parting out what you can or the newer parts, and giving the rest to a local electronics recycler for them to recover precious metals. Or just keeping it and setting up some silly nonsense on it. Never hurts to have one more host that you can destory and restore without worry of affecting other machines. The only thing you'd have trouble to part out is likely the motherboard, CPU cooler, PSU. Everything else will likely sell nicely.