A Question regarding hard drive when selling Power Mac G5 tower

Hello,
I have a 2004 Power Mac G5 tower that I'm trying to sell and will be taking out the hard drive before I ship as I don't want to reformat the drive(I'd rather keep the physical drive with me). Are there any other precautionary steps that I need to take in order to prevent the buyer from retaining any of my data on the computer? Do components like the motherboard, video card, ram or the processor retain any of my data?
Or will taking out the hard drive the only thing I need to do?
I've never sold a used computer to anyone before so I guess I'm a little OCD about it.
Thanks in advance,
J

Thank you for the info, Matt.
Actually the very last time I used the computer was the time it died on me so it wasn't powered off properly and I have not been able to use it since. Does the data in RAM clear itself regardless of how it was turned off? From what you have told me I'm guessing that whenever there is no power in the system the RAM is cleared regardless, am I correct?
Thanks again,
J

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