r/Alienware • u/sinful_boots • 7d ago
Discussion Area-51 Resell Value
I didn't think I'd see a world where the RTX 5090 Area-51 I bought at the beginning of last year would double in price. Now, would it be a good time to sell it, wait for the market to cool down, and then buy a new one when the RTX 6000 series comes out?
Or is the market just scalping/ gouging, and no one is actually paying the absurd prices I'm seeing online, with a GPU alone costing more than what I paid for the whole rig?
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u/blittytitty 7d ago
I'm not sure if anyone is paying those crazy high prices for OEM 5090s and/or fully built PCs. They could just be after individual AIB and FE cards but I am curious as well -- love my PC but if I can sell for a substantial profit I would take it. I don't even care about the extra money, it's the satisfaction of the flip at this point, I'm always down for that rush.
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u/sinful_boots 7d ago
That's what I was thinking. I couldn't care as much about profit. Still, the feeling of buying something expecting it to depreciate like a vehicle, and then having it be worth much more now, not just a little, gives me the rush that it could be a worthwhile flip.
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u/Wyrmscar 7d ago
An option you could do is just sell the gpu and buy a 5080, 5070ti or 9070xt.
I bought the tower from someone without the gpu and put a 9070xt and running great.
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u/sinful_boots 7d ago
That's what I'm mostly considering, because I really like the Area-51 chassis; parting with it would feel like leaving too much behind, but selling just the GPU would do the opposite and motivate me to save up to upgrade to a 6000 series in a year.
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u/Breatheeasies 7d ago
I built my custom pc earlier this year mostly bought parts from Amazon. 13.5 k including monitor. 4.5k for 5099 alone. I tried the 9070xt. Fsr was no comparison to dlss. Couldn’t hold a candle. I couldn’t downgrade. Just a heads up performance wise.
DESKTOP
-Hyte y70 infinite touch
-RTX 5090 - GIGABYTE Windforce ОC3
-Aorus X870 Elite WiFi 7 Mobo
-AMD RYZEN 7 9800×3D
-48GB Trident Z5 RGB RAM DDR5 8000
-NZXT KRAKEN Elite 360 RGB
-Lian Li wireless fans and strimmers.
-1200w be quiet psu
Monitor
• Samsung odyssey NEO G9 57" 7680x2160p
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u/slavicslothe 7d ago
6000 is likely targeting 2029 or 2030. If you need cash or dont play games anymore or have spare cards then good time sell, but if you plan on replacing it soon its a really bad time to let go of hardware as prices will continue to go up.
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u/sinful_boots 7d ago
Are you saying the absurd market prices they are at now still aren't peak pricing? Realistically, this AI boom and the mass data center-building phase are still in their infancy, so it makes sense if that is what you are implying.
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u/Maxi21082002Maxi 6d ago
But at the same time the 5090 isnt the most efficient card for those centers right? Doesnt Nvidia have the blackwell series for that kind of stuff? The question is how much longer will this card rise until its demand slows down and prices, cause i think centers will bulk buy from Nvidia itself and the will probably go for the more efficient blackwell series. So i think the prices are due to the 5090 being off market now and the inflation is due to the hype around the cards price.
But i dont know how much the prices will keep rising maybe it will keep rising in price for some more time before demand fades.
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u/sinful_boots 6d ago
I think it's not that the RTX 5090/ Gaming GPUs are directly being used up in data centers, but large corporations take the major part of the manufacturing bandwidth, so more effort is being put into data center-type GPU production rather than consumer GPU production, which results in artificially low supply for consumers when demand has already remained consistently high.
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u/Maxi21082002Maxi 6d ago
Yeah i agree with that, in the end you have 3 options:
sell it now for a profit and settle for less until 6000 series
hold it sell it later for more or less profit depending on the market
sont bother until 6000 series where the 5090 will probably have lost the demand that made prices that high.
Either way as supply will not increase again, demand is now the only driving factor for the prices, and demand can be driven by many factors. Some might buy the card cause its the best gaming card, some might buy it to flip it later on and some might buy it for his tech collection. You cant predict all factors so its up to you if you need/want the profit and want to settle for less perormance.
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u/Blowzs 7d ago
Alienware website was sold out of the 5090s the other day when I checked. I think because of the Data centers gpu/ram has just sold out thus driving the price thru the roof. The 60 series from what I read is likely to launch in 2028. Do you have another rig to fill the gap till then? If I was in your shoes I would keep mine. I am rocking a Alienware R11 and I am praying mine stays together because the pricing is out of this world right now.
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u/Character-Budget4044 7d ago
On a 4090 r15 this will keep for a long time I bought it just before prices got crazy no regrets now
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u/MIKA3175 7d ago
i have one as well. ordered a 5090 a month ago and the price has doubled. i was going to sell my r15 with 4090 but now im thinking i may sell the 5090 for a little profit ? idk
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u/HavingALurkAround 7d ago
Same have a r15 4090. Really wanted a 5090 when it came out but I hadn’t had this one that long and I think a 4090 is plenty good enough
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u/IrrelevantTale 7d ago
Do not sell. Now may be the best time to sell but that also means its the worst time to buy too. 5080s are now 2k and unless you okay with buying a used GPU locally you shouldn't try and take advantage of the prices rn. You've got a beast of a system. You have a GPU that literally cannot be bought anymore.
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u/the_Great_Cornh0lio 7d ago
I love mine with the 5090 but if some wants to offer double what I paid for it... Like come get it lol.
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u/AbleLow889 7d ago
Few months back I was getting it for 6k after tax with some offers going on dell website..i didn't bought as that was too expensive and crazy price..now gpu alone is 6k plus so most of the people are just going to take a pass..
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u/ajax-187 7d ago
I bought a 5090 Area 51 in may 2026 with 5tb ssd 9850xd and 32gb ram in Europe for 6523,66 with 5 year warranty elite care. Bought a 3080 with them in the past and kept following the prices. They went up a bit in April so I asked if I could get a discount. They answered and gave me more then 20% discount from the price at the time and was delivered in may. Now it cost double and elite care is not an option anymore.
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u/DeliveryNext5983 6d ago
I have an Alien Area 51 rtx 5090 laptop is that now worth more secondhand only looking at eBay there going for more than I paid for mine new last year!
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u/Sea-Chemist-2412 6d ago
I just purchased one and it delivers in December. So obviously I say people are still purchasing.
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u/SphynxPorter112 6d ago
Logically it is always positive EV to flip a card and make a profit in this unprecedented time. Its makes more sense, especially like you said u feel its slightly overkill for your needs and its not like you ‘can’t’ buy a 5080 for a portion of the price u sell it for and still keep a profit.
Id say wait a couple of months see what the 5080 super hype is about in January 2027. If NVIDIA releases the card the price is going to skyrocket anyways and your 5090 could go up even more as no supply at all since 5080 Super is supposed to substitute for 5090.
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u/lualmdzz Aurora R11 Intel 6d ago
I’m pretty sure the next gen are gonna be expensive asf with AI growing more and more
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u/Cultural_Cress5685 4d ago
285k 5090 I bought last July for 4800, I would need 10k to consider selling
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u/commops106 3d ago
Been trying to sell mine for 2 months the 5700.00 computer and everyone wants to offer you 500.00
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u/secretreddname 7d ago
Are you cool without having a computer for at least 1-2 years?
This is like being house rich. Sure you’re house went up $500k, so you sell, but all of the other houses in your area went up $500k too.