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

[desura]

You guys should do a search.

You can buy a Pentium 4 3ghz for $5 shipped.

And it's also tested.

Remember when that was state of the art and it cost...what was it, $200 per?

 

[jumpncrash]

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

 

[Maximilian]

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

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.

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

You guys should do a search.

You can buy a Pentium 4 3ghz for $5 shipped.

And it's also tested.

Remember when that was state of the art and it cost...what was it, $200 per?

Wow that brings back memories. That wasnt long after I came to work for Intel®.

 

[desura]

Like, they might be able to be useful if someone ever designed a cheap motherboard that could host like 20 of them at a time (and figured out how to cool it).

 

[vampirr]

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...

 

[Markfw]

So I just got an Opteron 248 for $5 from newegg, just for the hell of it. And I spent like $600 a piece for my Opteron 242's circa 2002

 

[Krynj]

Looking at old video cards is also a fun trip down memory lane.

 

[Torn Mind]

A cheap Pentium 4 upgrade and an urge to build a new boxwas part of the reason I suddenly became an "enthusiast" last summer. Had the free time to research via Google those 6 letter "codes" and got myself introduced to a lot of things, like CPU world and other sites.

Goes to show that technological advancement can bring yesteryear's tech prices down to levels sometimes cheaper than a meal at a restaurant.

 

[jaqie]

Speaking of memory lane...

(system build log in sig)

I also have almost completed a 486 dx-2/66MHz system this time with an era case too this time not just era components, but have gotten too ill to finish, hope I can soon. VLB, non ZIF socket, 528MB bios limit (non LBA/LRG compatible bios)... VLB cirrus logic 1MB video upgradable to 2MB and standard VLB two channel IDE I/O card.

 

[Cerb]

So I just got an Opteron 248 for $5 from newegg, just for the hell of it. And I spent like $600 a piece for my Opteron 242's circa 2002

I remember just being in awe of what 2 240s, with I'm pretty sure 2 1GB sticks of RAM, could do (and, IIRC, the RAM was the truly painful cost, at the time!). It was an in-house n-tier .NET+SQL Server app, but set up single-server, and it was so much faster than the P4 Xeons nobody new what to do with themselves. IIRC, a RAM upgrade was all it needed, throughout its service life.

If I had boards to take them, now, I'd probably set one up, just for the Hell of it . I still have some registered ECC DDR around here, somewhere, I think...

 

[BeauCharles]

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.

I've gave my sister an X2 5200+ hand-me-down rig two years ago. She loves it and her 9 year old son is parked in front of it every day playing Minecraft and Torchlight. It ain't junk if someone has a use for it.

 

[jcniest5]

So I just got an Opteron 248 for $5 from newegg, just for the hell of it. And I spent like $600 a piece for my Opteron 242's circa 2002

What? Newegg still sells these?

 

[jaqie]

newegg sells batches of refurbs on occasion. I saw some 20gb hdds recently for like $8.

 

[NTMBK]

It's crazy seeing the prices of the high-end workstation and server tech. The Xeons in the retro rig in my sig originally cost ~$2000 each, and I got a pair for £20 on eBay.

 

[Maximilian]

I've gave my sister an X2 5200+ hand-me-down rig two years ago. She loves it and her 9 year old son is parked in front of it every day playing Minecraft and Torchlight. It ain't junk if someone has a use for it.

:thumbsup: this is true, its junk to me though

 

[desura]

So I had planned on parting out the systems, hoping to at least to $15 for one of these processors, but...

Too much trouble to sell it them. what to do with this former state of the art processor that has so much technology and engineering in it?

 

[desura]

Like, one thing that might be cool would be an old motherboard underwater in a fish tank.

assuming that chemicals that leeched out wouldn't kill the fish.

Wonder if there's a way to...blanch an old motherboard (prob the least valuable part).

maybe take the old processor, use it as like an emo pin.

edit: wow. motherboards fetch a decent price, actually. $40 for an athlon xp mb.

 

[Homeles]

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

Why is that sad? Screw recycling, guys!

 

[jimbob200521]

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

So I just got an Opteron 248 for $5 from newegg, just for the hell of it. And I spent like $600 a piece for my Opteron 242's circa 2002

Link? I'd take a couple haha

 

[SPBHM]

162 Pentium Pro's for $4,050!

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

I think every single Pentium Pro is worth at least $50 of gold, so, it looks cheap

 

[jimbob200521]

I think every single Pentium Pro is worth at least $50 of gold, so, it looks cheap

Seriously, there's that much gold in them? Wooow. What's it take to get that pay check outta there, smelting it down or something? I doubt Joe Schmo could use a blow torch in his garage haha

 

[Homeles]

Seriously, there's that much gold in them? Wooow. What's it take to get that pay check outta there, smelting it down or something? I doubt Joe Schmo could use a blow torch in his garage haha

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

You actually can, lol.

 

[desura]

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

 

[Matt1970]

You guys should do a search.

You can buy a Pentium 4 3ghz for $5 shipped.

And it's also tested.

Remember when that was state of the art and it cost...what was it, $200 per?

I actually bought a couple last month since. I still get people bringing me old machines and they flat our refuse to leave XP. A 3.0GHz and a gig of ram will still run XP pretty decently.