I saw a lot of people recommending to buy used CPU and other components and to my surprise I saw a lot of CPUs on eBay which are worth 4000$ are sold for 30$? is this too good to be true? or are these heavily damaged and they do not work?
Even if it was worth 600$ and I can get it for 40$ that’s a big win I believe, can you guys share your experience and do you think I can find parts that fit my needs? thank you
Yep, they are real and they are useful. When data centers upgrade they flood the market with older tech which keeps the price of old xeons pretty low. Data centers care about performance per watt more than anything else and old processors are inefficient. Running one old CPU in your house wont make much of a difference to your power bill, but at datacenter scales that adds up to thousands upon thousands of watts.