AMD 3000+ Venice

[endlesszeal]

I was playing with the idea of selling my venice. I got it in May and I don't know the steppings because it came pre-assembled and I was to lazy to take it apart.

Anyway how much do you think I can get for it? Its setting at 2.4ghz with stock voltage. I tried bumping the voltage to 1.42 and it got up to 2.7ghz, but I didn't have money for good cooling so back to stock voltage because I got skured. It idles at 33C and loads at 39C with stock everything except upped the fsb/htt.

What do you guys think?

 

[coomar]

you'll probably get the most amount of money if you put it up on ebay

 

[Corporate Thug]

why not just save for a better cooler?

 

[morkman100]

i think you can use CPU-z to find out the steppings for your CPU.

 

[endlesszeal]

i want to sell it because i really want to try and get my hands on a decent opteron 165. and ill try looking at CPU-Z. last time i checked, it just showed like the family and revision.

 

[Sunrise089]

2.7ghz at 1.42v seems rather good, nice processor.

 

[adiabaticgfx]

What are you thinking in terms of price? My venice cant get past 2.4 without 1.55volts and bottoms out at 2.6 with really unsafe voltage and I was thinking of going the opteron route or looking into a different chip.

 

[JasonE4]

You could probably get about $120 for it if you can confirm that it does 2.7 GHz at 1.42 volts. By the way, you could go up to about 1.5 volts on the stock heatsink without having to worry too much. Open up your case when testing it if you have to.

 

[endlesszeal]

wow thats paltry. i guess ill hold on to it and upgrade later when i really need it. i was hoping 200 but i guess that was a big over guessimate. oh well thanks guys.

 

[sodcha0s]

Originally posted by: endlesszeal
wow thats paltry. i guess ill hold on to it and upgrade later when i really need it. i was hoping 200 but i guess that was a big over guessimate. oh well thanks guys.

You can get a brand new 148 Opteron for ~$200, why would you think you could get that much for a used 3000+? You should try getting a better cooler, 2.7 @1.4 is very nice...

 

[JasonE4]

Originally posted by: endlesszeal
wow thats paltry. i guess ill hold on to it and upgrade later when i really need it. i was hoping 200 but i guess that was a big over guessimate. oh well thanks guys.

Wow, no, $200 is way overestimating it. There are a lot of 3000's that will do around 2.7 GHz. And now with the Opterons, which you can find for under $200 brand new and will do 2.8 GHz +, there's no way.

 

[Sunrise089]

OP - I can understand thinking $200 because your chip OCs a lot, but basically a proven OC chip is probably worth about as much as a brand new chip of the same name. Basically people are willing to buy a chip used and still offer you what a new one is available for. I know you may feel the proven overclocking is worth the extra $$$, but that has to be comparted to the warranty issues, risk of the seller misrepresenting their item, and possibility that a new chip could OC even better. Basically if your chip was worth $200 then average OCing 3000+s should be worth $140, and nobody I know would buy a used chip for the same price as a new one if it didn't offer something additional.

 

[Fallengod]

Herm. No overclocking chip is worth more money. Infact, you void the warranty and its used, so its worth less. Most chips OC, thats sorta an irrelevant point. I understand your logic though. Unfortunatly, thats not how it works. I suppose if you found someone stupid enough to pay extra for a "proven" OC, you might get a little more. Its gonna be hard selling a 3000+ venice for more...You have heard of these godlike cpus called "opterons" out lately right? They do around 3.0GHZ easy and cost about $140-$150.

Ive bought 4 3200 E3 venices that do 2.5ghz at stock volts off these forums for $100-115 shipped each. A 3000 is worth like $90-$100 max now, and thats pushing it. Id buy it off you for that. Ive seen some people recently sell 3200 venices for $105 shipped so.... Anyways, good luck.

 

[Hacp]

Your chip should be worth around 140 shipped.

 

[Regalk]

Hold onto a bit more prices are rising for the 3000+. These forums drive you nuts as guys crow over newer fastser cores and tempt you - dual core and all. I have long since overcome that hurdle. I buy and use till I get my moneys worth an dwhen prices come down significantly.

 

[JasonE4]

Originally posted by: Regalk
Hold onto a bit more prices are rising for the 3000+. These forums drive you nuts as guys crow over newer fastser cores and tempt you - dual core and all. I have long since overcome that hurdle. I buy and use till I get my moneys worth an dwhen prices come down significantly.

The price for a used 3000+ will never go up from what it is now. He'd be very lucky to get $120 shipped, and probably is more likely to get around $100 shipped.

 

[the cobbler]

just because this chip booted at 1.42v 2700 mhz, does not by any stretch of the imagination mean that it is necessarily going to be stable at 2700mhz. or that it even CAN get stable at 2700mhz.

just fwiw

 

[endlesszeal]

as i stated before, im keeping and i wasnt sure on how pricing these kind of things would be "fair." thats why i posted this in this section of the forum instead of the for sale.

i also never implied being able to be stable at 2.7ghz. i just said i got it to there and i backed off to default.

anyway, close this thread.

 

[BOLt]

Originally posted by: Sunrise089
2.7ghz at 1.42v seems rather good, nice processor.

hell yeah. OP, i'll buy your proc. gimme a PM.