WTB: a Q8400 Intel CPU

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ArtooDetoo

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#171701 28-Apr-2015 12:50

Trying to breathe a little life into a geriatric PC and drag it whimpering and moaning into the exciting world of 64bit processing.

If anyone has such a beastie (or better quad core substitute for a 775 LGA board), flick me a reply and we can haggle over the pacific pesos.

Thanks in advance,
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#1292911 28-Apr-2015 12:50

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#1292932 28-Apr-2015 13:20

how much were you looking at spending for this chip?

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#1292937 28-Apr-2015 13:29

l43a2: how much were you looking at spending for this chip?

A fair price, would be my answer. On ebay today there's a Q8400 going for US$21, which would attract shipping of another US$20 to get it here in around 7-10 days, based on experience. But I can't be effed waiting that long if I can get my mitts on one locally.

So around $60 NZ sounds fair to me, depending on courier costs or whatever.

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#1292966 28-Apr-2015 14:22

i have a Q9450 would you be interested in that?

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#1292969 28-Apr-2015 14:31

l43a2: i have a Q9450 would you be interested in that?

As far as I can tell, there's not much difference between the two CPUs performance wise, so yep. I think the 9450 has a lower power consumption which isn't a bad thing. I already have a decent CPU cooler so all I'd need is the actual chip.

Where are you based and are you OK with $60 for it?

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#1292972 28-Apr-2015 14:35

ill private message you more details.

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#1292974 28-Apr-2015 14:40

l43a2: ill private message you more details.

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#1293023 28-Apr-2015 15:39

If you have no luck sourcing a 775 quad locally there is a very easy mod you can do to make a socket 771 Xeon work. Historically the 775 Quads were commanding a premium as a lot of people were upgrading to them towards the end of the sockets lifetime. At the same time there was a glut of high end Xeon's on the market as servers were being decom'd.

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#1293187 28-Apr-2015 22:27

PANiCnz: If you have no luck sourcing a 775 quad locally there is a very easy mod you can do to make a socket 771 Xeon work. Historically the 775 Quads were commanding a premium as a lot of people were upgrading to them towards the end of the sockets lifetime. At the same time there was a glut of high end Xeon's on the market as servers were being decom'd.

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll look into it.

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#1293198 28-Apr-2015 22:51

Despite it looking promising a couple of hours ago, sadly the potential agreement with l43a2 has fallen through and I'm back in the market for a quad core LGA775 CPU. So, don't be shy - sitting at the bottom of a dusty box full of retired PC components is some buckeroo-generating relic of yesteryear computing, just itching to be swapped for some dosh.

Or not...

I live in hope...

Cheers,
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#1293385 29-Apr-2015 10:45

PANiCnz: At the same time there was a glut of high end Xeon's on the market as servers were being decom'd.

Two questions for you:

Is there a particular Xeon that you would recommend?

Does the Xeon need to be coupled with ECC memory? Pretty sure my GA-ED45 board doesn't support it but I may be wrong.

The 4GB of RAM that's on the board right now is non-ECC.

Tx for your help.

R2

EDIT: A little more sleuthing reveals that ECC is based around motherboard/chip support, and Xeons don't need it, so it appears that my existing RAM and the additional 4GB I intend to fit can be non-ECC with no issues.

So as a backup, I'll start searching for some decommissioned Xeons once I know what to look for.

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