A pretty little DX-2-66 Chip I just picked up...

[sammyc]

Yes . it may be common. But you'll be hard pushed to find one as clean, and tidy and pretty and in such good condition with the original heatsink like this one:

[bacterio]

This version is less common than the purple or black heatsink

[sammyc]

I know... the electric blue colour makes it look soooo pretty. Was very pleased to find it in one of the parcels of bulk CPU's that arrived this morning.

[slava]

It seems like you're getting tons of cpus every day.
Why'd you need so many chips, as you've said before, there are many many identical pieces that you have.

[sammyc]

I like em Is that reason notgood enough?

I go through spates of buying loads in bulk, then none for a few months.. then loads again in bulk.

I find that if I buy this way I can find the 'little gems' like this one in big packages... makes it a little be more exciing for me i guess (haha, what a dull life I must lead).

Also, by buying in bulk I can sell on the processors I do not need, and hopefully earn myself some money to purchase more CPU's.

I at the moment have 357 different chips in the collection all around 386 - 1GHz. Some rare, many common. I have about 700 spare chips for trade

[CPUShack]

Buying in bulk is extremely fun.
You never know what gem you might pull out of the pile.
Its exciting.

I understand completely.

[nikko]

well.. it's not always fun...
like the lot I just bought

[CPUShack]

There is that too, but you can almost always resell a lot like that for scrap, after pulling out any cool CPU's/EPROM's

[Marcin]

In my mind that CPU isn't common. I got 3 chips and all of them were from 486 mobo servers.

[sammyc]

When I saw it, I did actually think of your profile picture. exactly the same colour and the only other time I have seen a retail CPU that colour.