Would you buy a borked up CPU, especially when it costs....

[FelixDeCat]

$510 :shocked:

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Even broken Intels are overpriced! :laugh:

- M4H

 

[JS80]

the possibility that it will work?

 

[Ika]

22 bids...?

 

[Kanalua]

wow...I wonder if the buyer knows it's f-ed up?

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: guoziming
22 bids...?

I might have taken a shot at it, but no more than $20 - shipped!

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

ppl bought my broken SE K750i (cell phone) for $202.50

 

[moks78]

Some peeps just have the moolah to waste around or they are just utterly $tupid.

 

[couppi]

Many people will see an auction and hit place bid immediately, and then leave negative feedback when they have "strange boot issues".

 

[Auryg]

Engineering samples are supposedly really, really, really good OCers.

Still though..eh.

 

[Trey22]

Sheesh... bet you most didn't read the entire post and will be bitching later.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: Auryg
Engineering samples are supposedly really, really, really good OCers.

Still though..eh.

I know. Ive had several.

The best one I ever had was back in 2004 when I bought the mother of all engineering samples right here at Anandtech! I paid about $120 for it and sold it on ebay for $325!!! :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:


What made this chip so valuable? Most Intel ES chips have multiplier range of 3 or 4 numbers to play with. This had the full range of 8x-20x!!! Also most ES chips have markings stating their original value along with the words "ES". This chip was completely blank!!!

How did I get it so cheap? The guy sold it for a friend who strickly liked AMD and got this chip interning at Intel. He just threw it in his backpack and the pins were all bent. I straigtened them all out and viola - 3.4 standard boot!! :shocked:

 

[Eeezee]

haha he's going to get negative feedback through no fault of his own

 

[funkymatt]

whoever did the lapping on that sucks! looks like there are some nice scratches. ::shudder::