It's so weird looking at old CPU's on ebay

[jimbob200521]

http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/576-gold-silver-cpu.html

You actually can, lol.

Seems to be more trouble than it's worth, at least to set up as a home operation. Good article read, though.

 

[Tsavo]

162 Pentium Pro's for $4,050!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/162-Pentium...1lb-/271177544197?pt=CPUs&hash=item3f2370f205

Or better yet, a Pentium Pro Heatsink/Fan, that would barely suffice for a chipset nowadays!

There were 200+ of those at work that got crushed after lots of boxes got Overdrives. :| A long time ago.

I have two of those PPro heatsinks, and they are far from small.

 

[Maximilian]

Any ideas about like how to make some Etsy-esque stuff from these old processors? Like, I'm trying to think how to make like a refrigerator magnet

Yes! Buy these:

162 Pentium Pro's for $4,050!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/162-Pentium...1lb-/271177544197?pt=CPUs&hash=item3f2370f205

Take the pins off them, superglue them all to the top of a coffee table, make pentium pro coffee table :thumbsup: You will never need to use a coaster again.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Thank you for posting that, it was fascinating!

Originally Posted by Homeles View Post
http://www.tomshardware.com/pictures...ilver-cpu.html

You actually can, lol..

 

[Bateluer]

what's really sad is seeing all the pentium pros being sold for gold recovery

Heh, we've got about 3,000 old s478 and s775 Celerons and Pentium 4s sitting in ESD bags stacked in plastic tubs in storage. How much is the gold worth?

 

[jaqie]

those don't have nearly as much.
like, a tiny fraction of what a ppro has.

 

[Idontcare]

http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/576-gold-silver-cpu.html

You actually can, lol.

I expected more gold than that TBH. I wonder how efficient their recovery process was in that specific documented case.

 

[yhelothar]

162 Pentium Pro's for $4,050!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/162-Pentium...1lb-/271177544197?pt=CPUs&hash=item3f2370f205

Or better yet, a Pentium Pro Heatsink/Fan, that would barely suffice for a chipset nowadays!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Penti...?pt=US_CPU_Fans_Heatsinks&hash=item2ec72b3ece



Link? I'd take a couple haha

According to the claims in the auction, there's 1 gram of gold per CPU. Given recent values of gold, the CPU is worth $50 in its weight in gold alone!

 

[desura]

According to the claims in the auction, there's 1 gram of gold per CPU. Given recent values of gold, the CPU is worth $50 in its weight in gold alone!

You cannot win on ebay.

Like, at 4k, 162 pentium pros is like $30 per processor. Then take into account the cost of processing and you're not looking at much profit at all.

 

[yhelothar]

You cannot win on ebay.

Like, at 4k, 162 pentium pros is like $30 per processor. Then take into account the cost of processing and you're not looking at much profit at all.

I won a lot of times, but I was never saying this one was win.

 

[Idontcare]

According to the claims in the auction, there's 1 gram of gold per CPU. Given recent values of gold, the CPU is worth $50 in its weight in gold alone!

Recent values are wholesale and purified. The crap purity gold you will get from deprocessing CPUs will be barely good enough to take to a jeweler and sell to them for maybe half the gold market value you see everyone talking about.

 

[desura]

So the cheapest I've found is like $1.62 for a Pentium M.

And they guarantee that it works because they tested it.

Ebay + paypal fees = $0.50. Shipping is $1.12 or so.

 

[jaqie]

ive had people send me one like that in an envelope with no padding. the core got crushed.

 

[Maximilian]

Plenty of epic deals on old chips here:

http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2&sid=d4e4eae9601d8a3b4d9329e8b1b5be7b

That guy slice always has awesome stuff for sale, and the sales always close right after i see them, or everyone else has dibs on the good stuff

 

[Stryker124]

It's interesting to see what people are paying for "scrap" computer parts. Especially old CPU's like the PPro.

This place is near me, and I've been meaning to take a load of broken stuff over to them one of these days. Not that I'll make a mint, but might help finance my next tech purchase.

http://boardsort.com/payout.php

 

[blckgrffn]

I just picked up a Pentium D 805 for $3.80 shipped. It was supposed to work in a mobo I had and didn't - but now I'll keep it just in case.

It's owning a little bit of history It was the cool kid on the block for a few months at least in it's novelty. Building a general use PC? Use an 805. http://www.anandtech.com/show/1986

I always wanted one after I read that article. I managed to buy a Pentium D 930, 955x Intel Board, 2x 1GB DDR2 Ram and a Seagate 160GB Sata drive from FS/FT not long after when that ram alone was still worth $100!

Reading that article and thinking back on the hardware I owned, I can't believe how much money I spent on those dual core AMD Opteron chips!

Look at these power use numbers! HAH!

http://www.anandtech.com/show/1986/10

 

[Tsavo]

I'm a horrible person. I killed off my collection of old CPUs by selling them on ebay.

Less than $100 after seller's fees, and I damn near threw out my back putting the PPros into USPS boxes.

I was going to rebuild my old dual PPro box, but then I remembered how much of a pain in the nuts everything was back then, so I killed it for good.

 

[Puppies04]

Pentium 4 was a disaster and because of Intel's illegal rebates my dad got one, wasted money for far worser performance in 2004. Facepalm...

I must have missed that conviction, care to link to the court case?

 

[Tsavo]

I must have missed that conviction, care to link to the court case?

Intel paid millions to Dell a while back. This was back during the "Dude you are getting a Dell" advert campaign and Dell himself was highlighted as being the next wunderkind of bidness.

Pretty funny in those years, the Intel "rebate" is the only thing that made Dell money.

 

[ElFenix]

I must have missed that conviction, care to link to the court case?

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2009/tc20091115_692400.htm
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383470750065524.html

 

[desura]

someone think of a way to do these chips justice!.

How about like putting one in a picture frame?

 

[Shephard]

This.

Yeah ebay is a trip down CPU memory lane, i remember how the athlon X2's were the best, someone had "X2 > *" in their sig here and it was true, now they're junk lol.

Athlon X2 is not junk. I had 4400+ and sold my system with my 6000+ which I ran for 6 years. It had no problems with games or any tasks at all. Only showed it's age with rendering now that I compare it to my 3570k.

 

[Maximilian]

I'm a horrible person. I killed off my collection of old CPUs by selling them on ebay.

Less than $100 after seller's fees, and I damn near threw out my back putting the PPros into USPS boxes.

I was going to rebuild my old dual PPro box, but then I remembered how much of a pain in the nuts everything was back then, so I killed it for good.

Yeah i toyed with the idea of setting up a pentium PRO box but gave up on that for similar reasons. It probably dosent boot from USB, needs IDE stuff, likely picky about memory too, freakin EDO RAM?! power supply probably wont be ATX with the 20 pin connector and thats just the stuff off the top of my head, nah bollocks to it lol.

Athlon X2 is not junk. I had 4400+ and sold my system with my 6000+ which I ran for 6 years. It had no problems with games or any tasks at all. Only showed it's age with rendering now that I compare it to my 3570k.

Junk to me bro

 

[Cerb]

Athlon X2 is not junk. I had 4400+ and sold my system with my 6000+ which I ran for 6 years. It had no problems with games or any tasks at all. Only showed it's age with rendering now that I compare it to my 3570k.

The problem is you've got to get a mobo and RAM, and in AGP cases, video card. That's what makes them junk. Video card fans die, CPU fans die, mobos die, etc., leaving just healthy CPUs.

 

[Shephard]

The problem is you've got to get a mobo and RAM, and in AGP cases, video card. That's what makes them junk. Video card fans die, CPU fans die, mobos die, etc., leaving just healthy CPUs.

nothing died on that build.

asus mobo still have the box.
4gb kingston hyperx ddr2
9800 gt and later gts 250

I sold the computer for $450 and it was still going strong.

probably one of the best cpus I have owned.