Maybe there is somewhere you can donate them if you're not bothered about any money for the parts, or you can stick them on eBay and you will get something for them.

If they work and no one buys them, make a PC out of it and donate it.

Pretty sure you can sell them, not that bad CPU.

That CPU is also 5.0Ghz on all cores if your configure it properly in BIOS

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:

Pretty sure you can sell them, not that bad CPU.

for how much?

Any good RAM to go with it?

I'm from germany so maybe it doesn't translate to italy but I got my 9900k and z390 sold for around 150€ about 6 months ago.

Sold them individualy though.

Originally posted by Soulreaver:

I'm from germany so maybe it doesn't translate to italy but I got my 9900k and z390 sold for around 150€ about 6 months ago.

Sold them individualy though.

That would be better if 1 person needed a cpu upgrade and the other person needed a replacement board who already has that type of cpu and ram.

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Any good RAM to go with it?

have 64 GB RAM vengeance from corsair to sale.

Now i have 96gb RAM

You should be able to figure this out yourself but looking at used markets and seeing what comparable parts are selling for (not what they are listed for).

Those aren't quite ten year old components, more like just under 7-ish. Somewhere between 5 and 7 years tends to be where once-higher-end-in-their-time parts begin showing their age, but they will likely still be some degree of useful. AMD's closest comparison would be the 3700X, which is a bit slower than it, and it's still fine today. "Not great, not terrible" describes that range of performance.

Now if that was two generations older, it'd have a LOT less value because the upcoming end of support for Windows 10 is about to push all that stuff into legacy status because Windows 11 doesn't support it (it supports yours though). Someone is probably going to try and mention that Windows 10 won't instantly be unusable, or that bypasses exist (and they'll not touch on the drawbacks of doing this), or that Linux exists, but none of that changes the point. The point is that for the majority of the market on Windows, it's not going to be supported, has drawbacks, and is aging and slow now so it inherently has near-nil value for the majority of the market.

nVidia cards beginning with "GT" or "GTX" instead of "RTX" will be in the same situation soon (the GTX 16xx series aside) after the 580.xx branch of drivers, since 59x.xx won't support Pascal (GTX 10 series) and older. AMD's graphics prior to RDNA (and honestly including RDNA1 maybe) are in "sort of supported in delayed fashion or not at all" as well.

Everything becomes legacy eventually. But your 9900K isn't worthless, not yet.

For the CPU, motherboard, and RAM together, you could probably get a couple, maybe a few, hundred. One potential drawback I can see is that most people looking at such old hardware as a bundle will probably want it for the reason that it would be cheap, but the highest-in-socket CPU and high capacity of RAM sort of work against that (meaning, if you list it for "what it's worth", it will probably greatly decrease your potential buyers). So you might have to sell it a bit below value. But that's better than throwing it out, getting nothing, and trashing still usable hardware in my eyes.

A couple hundred. No
A 12th Gen i7 + MB + the needed DDR4 would barely be that much and those could be grabbed new

If you are going to throw it away, might as well try selling it for less than what they're going for and you might make a sale.

a 9900k still very relevant cpu great overclockers sell it.

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

A couple hundred. No
A 12th Gen i7 + MB + the needed DDR4 would barely be that much and those could be grabbed new

A 12700KF alone is close to a couple hundred. That's before the motherboard and RAM.

People will pay silly amounts of money for the fastest CPU that will go into a socket, because it allows them to bypass buying a new motherboard/RAM. No, it's not always smart, but there are people who do it so it's hard to argue it can't sell for whatever amount people are buying them for.

So that CPU + motherboard + 64 GB RAM could probably get a couple or few hundred, depending. It might get a little more parted out, but the time and effort of doing so might not be worth it.

Originally posted by emoticorpse:

If you are going to throw it away, might as well try selling it for less than what they're going for and you might make a sale.

That's my stance too.

Why not sell them?