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 Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 8:45 am Post subject: Biggest Collecting Mistake? |
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I took a gamble by purchasing an item that I was speculating on the CPU within. And while I wait for this item to arrive I've done more research and feel less and less confident I will find what I was looking for.
Which got me thinking since I see others are buying scrap lots of chips in hopes for good finds etc.
What is your biggest collecting mistake?
Basically if I discover I was wrong I can find solace in your stories 
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Marcin
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It is best to forget mistakes as soon as possible
I don't remember mine but I remember seller's negligence with packing effects.
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Chook
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Buying some scrap Pentium Pro 166s. They were loose in a box and rattled together all the way from USA to Australia. Also buying 3 ES P4 socket 423, two of which had been through a gold recovery process and were worthless.
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frag_
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 10:36 am Post subject: |
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| Chook wrote: | | Buying some scrap Pentium Pro 166s. They were loose in a box and rattled together all the way from USA to Australia. Also buying 3 ES P4 socket 423, two of which had been through a gold recovery process and were worthless. |
It was hardly your faults
Sometimes I think that the biggest mistake was to start collection in the first place! |
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misace
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My biggest mistake was not buying Cyrix Joshua and K6 Black from ebay for about $300 each.
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bccwchan
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Mine was spent USD100 to buy the IBM TCM heatsink. Yes, only a heatsink, no cpu included LOL. |
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Vlasta
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Mine was not offering enough to GMANBC for his Intel 4004 wafer AND then seeing he had it diced up to sell as individual dies - heartbreaking.....
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Chook
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2016 7:43 am Post subject: |
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| misace wrote: | | My biggest mistake was not buying Cyrix Joshua and K6 Black from ebay for about $300 each. |
Oh yeah, that reminds me. I made the mistake of not buying a NexGen Nx587 for about $120 some years ago. Now it is almost my top wanted chip.
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CHips
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| Vlasta wrote: | | Mine was not offering enough to GMANBC for his Intel 4004 wafer AND then seeing he had it diced up to sell as individual dies - heartbreaking..... |
I hope it was not the single 4004 wafer remaining in the world  ...
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cedrik
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seems that not having much money is a good thing sometime since i hardly can pay more than 15-20 euro for a CPU i cannot do mistakes like buying expensive CPU that end up being fake, and i cannot regret i didnt buy something very rare ...
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alvaro84
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I didn't have any big mistakes I could help.
I could even say that it was a mistake to buy a K6-III+ from here a month or two ago but it wasn't at all, even though I found another one in the scrap soon after I got the one I bought. The 400MHz piece from CPUShack is a better overclocker than the 500 I found, after all
And it wasn't too expensive anyway. Let's say it was my birthday present for myself  |
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| Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 10:39 am Post subject: |
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A funny update to this story is the seller can not find the items anymore? And has refunded the payment. So now I guess I will never know.
I don't know if I'm happy about this or not. |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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So now I believe mine will be this!
Recent shipment
IBM MCM carnage....it makes me sick to look at it. |
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Vlasta
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That is horrible - I would be filing an eBay case for that one.
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fritsp2007
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It make me sick too..  |
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