4 Core Xeon 2.66 -- any market?

colorspace said:

A year ago I updated my MP from a 4-core 2.66 to a 6-core 3.33. Works like a champ... although give that it turns out the much of my software does not do a great job in keeping all of the cores busy...in retrospect I wonder if it would have been money better spent on SSDs.

The original Xeon and memory has been sitting in a drawer since... my Q, is there a market for the Xeon CPU or RAM -- or should I use it for some found art project

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Oh, very much so!


I'd buy them off you off you to put in my 2006 MP if I could.

im wondering the same. I have two 2.4 quad cores xeons E5620 collecting dust

Nope. It was the base model so no one really has anything to replace it with.

There were the W3503 and W3505 which had 2.4GHz and 2.53GHz speeds and no hyper-threading, but they only featured in OEM systems.

You can likely get $10 for it all said and done. Probably purchased by people buying up old Dell T3500s/HP Z400s with those slightly slower CPUs and selling them on for a profit.

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RoastingPig said:

im wondering the same. I have two 2.4 quad cores xeons E5620 collecting dust

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Similar sort of situation, but there were a larger number of slower CPUs . People are buying up old servers from that era for VM labs and the like, and hosting companies still run them, so you can get $40-$50 for a pair.

I had to give away my 2x E5520's. Couldn't even get $50 for the pair. Sat on eBay for months.

Yeah I'll happy give away my set of delidded 2.26 Ghz Quads... I do have 2 of those as well...

If you find an old X58 motherboard, you can throw that 2.66 Quad after it (its like a i7 920), so you could still use it for something...

Verdenshersker said:

Yeah I'll happy give away my set of delidded 2.26 Ghz Quads... I do have 2 of those as well...

If you find an old X58 motherboard, you can throw that 2.66 Quad after it (its like a i7 920), so you could still use it for something...

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+1 on this. The Xeon power curve is too much to justify selling them (too many more powerful options for not that much $), plus they're plentiful. Whenever I upgrade a processor, I just take the old one and stick it in a different system.

Since I've had my 5,1 I've sold my E5620s and my W5590s on eBay. I didn't get a lot, but what I got was better than a stick in the eye

Lou

Your Quad 2.66 W3520 processor is worth about $10 retail. 1GB modules for that unit retail $4 and 2GB modules around $12.

E5620 2.4GHz Quad processors retail about $30/e

I would keep them as an insurance.