The CPU sets the performance story a buyer pays for. These notes cover choosing processors for flips, matching them to realistic resale tiers, and avoiding chips that quietly cap a build's value.
Hardware - CPUs
144 clean eBay UK sold comps put the Ryzen 5 3600 on a rock-flat median of £49.99, and a bundled cooler adds about £5 to that. Here is the real buy price for a flipper, and why the textbook formula overshoots on a chip this cheap.
Hardware - CPUs
The graphics card decides almost everything about how a gaming PC actually feels to play, so it deserves the lion's share of the budget. Here's how much CPU you genuinely need beside it, and when paying more for either one stops being worth it.
Hardware - CPUs
A big beige Noctua tower will never trend on your listing photos, but for the right flip it sells quiet, cool, no-drama confidence. For the wrong one it is margin you set on fire. Here is how to tell which flip you are holding.
