Cheap Thrills a $69 dollar 6-core monster!

[BigTroll]

So just recently i heard about Xeon six cores going for dirt cheap on ebay and I already had a x58 system that I have been using with a Core i7 920 @3.6ghz. the guy wanted $74 for the chip so i made a offer of 69 and he accepted. this chip not only runs about 10 degrees cooler but is much faster and required less volts to do so. It passed 24hr occt stress test and I did 8 hours of occt linpack.

So if you have x58 get one its an amazing deal heres the seller i got mine from. http://www.ebay.com/itm/121250737445

[Compgeke]

Re: Cheap Thrills a $69 dollar 6-core monster!

Not a bad price at all, roughly the speed of a current i5. These older Xeons are actually getting to be cheap enough to be worth buying imo.

I've been personally considering getting a X58 system myself; an older Precision with a 3.33 hex core Xeon (most likely a W3680) and 12 gigs of ram. Only issue is not the easiest task to find $250 out of nowhere.

[Clutchbox]

Re: Cheap Thrills a $69 dollar 6-core monster!

Nice upgrade! I did that also in Q1 of this year with an Xeon X5650 on an Asus P6T Workstation mobo with 12GB Ram and a Nvidia GTX670 GPU for gaming.
Surely it gives another few years of life out of this system. No need to buy a new one. (maybe Skylake-E or so, we'll see.)

[Per Hansson]

Re: Cheap Thrills a $69 dollar 6-core monster!

Nice find!
This is a real long shot but does anyone know if either the 2U Intel SR2300 chassis.
Or the Dell Precision 470 chassis can fit any modern mainboards?

Would be sweet with a bargain CPU like this, just need a mobo to go with it