That Haswell processor new costs approximately $200 dollars give or take $20.00.
The fallacy of posting a new price for that CPU, is the fact it's not current line. Accordingly, anyone would be buying as a "replacement part". Discontinued parts in stock, when sold, have to match or exceed the original dealer cost. Especially with computer items,a new item may far exceed the performance at an equivalent or even lower, cost to the dealer.
To go deeper into this, (although it likely isn't true at this point in time, due to the general price of new equipment RAM being sky high), DDR or DDR-2, would likely be higher in price per gigabyte, than current line DDR-3 or 4.
That axiom also holds, (or held true), for video cards. I bought a EVGA GT-750, for about a hundred bucks. Before the great card crunch of 2018, I purchased EVGE's highest "FTW 4GB GT-1080 ti", for about $130.00.
I wanted to equip another PC with a video card, and went looking for another GT-750, reasoning since it was discontinued, I'd get a good deal on it. Not so. The 750s I could find, were now up to about $200.00.
I think, that dealers stuck with these cards after their discontinuance, are willing to sit around and wait for someone dumb enough to buy the card as a "replacement part", not knowing the later model 10509, would work in its stead.
For a far better appraisal of that CPU's value, (Anand I'm totally loathe and grossed out to find myself saying this), but better to cruise Ebay, for a price in the used market..
Then too, the reason junk yards d so well, is they buy wrecked cars, and make money on the pricing of the still undamaged parts, versus the prices of the identical new parts.
Selling a used computer is a somewhat similar situation, where you could get more money for the parts individually, if you were willing to wait for buyers for them.
I will say, the talk of buying a used computer off of an individual, (ostensibly a box used (beaten), for gaming, scares the hell out of me.
Selling used articles of any kind, isn't where you'll find human nature's finest moments.
But you do what you gotta do.
