Recent content by KILLorBE

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    Workstation "on the cheap" for encoding/rendering?

    Hi all, I 'accidentally' ran into some E5 2670 CPU's on eBay that seemed to be quite cheap, so I thought of building a workstation... But I'm having second thoughts as it seems that encoding doesn't really benefit from more cores, on the other hand rendering does seem to benefit from more...
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    Why would somebody buy a defective CPU ?

    Let me put it in a different way: Why wouldn't you try to sell your defective hardware for big bucks if it's not going to cost you anything? When it comes to defective HDD's I can understand why people want to buy them, but they must be cheap as working PCB's most often can be found at a decent...