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CPUShack
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ckl
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 Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: CPU Shack: Part 2: Vintage IC Collecting - What to colle |
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| CPUShack wrote: | | http://www.cpushack.com/2016/03/01/part-2-vintage-ic-collecting-the-what/ |
Thanks for the informative article.
I just started collecting and I find your articles interesting. What I've been wondering is the disparity in prices from seemingly identical CPU's? For example, I was looking at one sale and it had this:
(2) ADA3200AIO4BX - $8.00 each
(1) ADA3200DAA4BP - $3.00
So after looking at both, I can see that they are both AMD Athlon 64 3200+ with venice cores, both manufactured using the same process tech., same data width, same number of cores, and same cache sizes. The only difference is the socket, the stepping code, and clock multiplier. I'm just wondering what makes one more special than the other and how one figures this out?
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Athlons for socket 754 are signifucantly less common and worth more. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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| If it wasn't condition I might theorized its was due to the sellers acquisition cost. One maybe came in large lot thus cheaper per item maybe. |
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CPUShack
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$8 is a bit newer and faster, but I would value them the same. pricing though sometimes reflects what the seller paid for them though too.
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ckl
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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Acquisition cost.. yes, I didn't think of that. Thanks.
| frag_ wrote: | | Athlons for socket 754 are signifucantly less common and worth more. |
Is this something you just knew or did you find out somewhere?
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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| When I see the users number of posts over like 1000, I assume "They just know" lol |
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ckl
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I wikipedia'd socket 754 and it did say that it was replaced by socket 939 due to low sales in the desktop market, but for a noob like me, that point alone wouldn't have specifically caught my attention. |
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frag_
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know exact numbers of course but 754 was short lived
and you can find common Athlons like 3000+/3200+ for 939 much easier than for 754.
Try to search e.g. this forum's "For Sale/Trade" threads. |
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ckl
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| OK. Thanks for the tip. |
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