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Computers & Hardware => Hardware - Deals & Bargains => Topic started by: phi2008 on March 18, 2016, 10:14:19 AM
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Recently picked up a couple of these, new, from the following buyer - http://www.ebay.com/itm/151964337392 . On sale for $63 plus $18 shipping and customs charges(about £56). In performance they're equivalent to a 4 GHz AMD FX-8350 (http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Xeon-E5-2670-vs-AMD-FX-8350) - but the AMD FX-8350 retails for £140 - so quite a price difference. Of course you'll need a socket 2011 motherboard ... and if you're lucky enough to locate a dual CPU board you can have the equivalent power of two FX-8350s, £280, for an outlay of £112. :)
Post on the Xeon E5 flood(also info on SR0KX stepping) - https://m.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/3smipw/psa_thousands_of_cheap_e5_xeons_flood_ebay/
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Perhaps I should have added this to the original post - a long thread on people building systems with the cheap Xeons, links to deals on motherboards(e.g. dual CPU) etc. :)
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/intel-xeon-e5-2670-deal-and-price-tracking.7133/page-71