Should you sell a mining rig whole or part it out?

A mining rig is mostly its graphics cards, so the choice is really between selling the cards together as one working rig and selling them one at a time. With us the rig pays more; on a marketplace, parting out can gross more but costs time, fees and risk. Here is how to weigh it.

The numbers

We price a rig as its cards plus its host parts, then add 10% for arriving assembled and working. Today’s offers:

Selling the rig whole

• One offer, one shipment, one payment.
• Mixed cards are normal — the form takes a row per model with its count.
• Frames, risers and power supplies aren’t priced separately, so you can ship just the cards and the host parts and keep or recycle the rest.

Parting it out

• Selling each card on a marketplace can bring more per card, before fees — but every listing is its own sale, buyer questions and shipment.
• Marketplace fees and shipping come out of each sale, and a buyer who claims a card arrived faulty is a dispute you handle yourself.
• The last few cards of a batch are often the slowest to sell.

When each one wins

Sell whole when the cards are working and you want the money and the space back quickly — especially for six or more cards, where parting out means six or more separate sales. Part out when you want to keep a card or two, or when the cards are a mix you would rather sell to different buyers over time. You can also do both: keep a card, and sell the rest as a rig.

Either way, put the cards back to stock and test them first, and pack them properly.