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I just called the police.

All good. The concern isn't about literally getting scammed out of money, but potential for being scammed out of time and energy. That buyers have an edge in disputes in the overall doesn't really change what I said. In case you missed earlier part of the thread, the seller had contacted buyers...

You do you, but you may not be aware of the openings you create for an unscrupulous seller by accepting delivery rather than refusing it, and to elaborate on all the variations I've seen and dealt with would just bore everyone and mostly go off topic. I'd rather appeal a shipping charge...

IMO $240 + tax is too high for any red flags to be tolerable. If it was $150, then the 30-day warranty of the ebay return period might be an acceptable risk for some people. For me, it's not about New or Used. The principle of a seller playing games trying to post-sale social engineer buyers...

Ideally you could refuse the package so seller has less leverage for restocking fee. Inevitably there will be the one or two predictable outliers that ordered one or more of these drives, and will post "well I got the drives and they powered on and seem to work, not sure what the big deal...

This is a tactic, not to mention bait and switch. It's to get a buyer on written record in ebay messaging to unwittingly agree to a post-purchase downgrade to Used/Refurb for what was advertised New to capture a higher price. It's leverage against the buyer for several scenarios if buyer...

Its because the manpower required to research how slots are configured electrically, which may require intensely studying block diagrams that aren't even always available - would make it a nonstarter. Easily a fulltime research job for 1-2 people. And that's not the site's business model since...

On-point post, and will unfortunately go over many peoples' heads since PCIe lane mapping is a tedious and murky topic, can vary wildly between motherboards since Intel/AMD leave a lot of 'creative' room to AIB's for configuration, and some AIB"s don't even make the exact configuration...

Yep, join the club. The lack of modern offerings in the HEDT/WS segment has been a frustration for many of us going on years now. PCIe lanes in desktop class AM5/Z790 is still absolutely anemic, and then there's a massive void before you're suddenly at 128 lanes with a TR Pro/WRX80. And so the...

One more thing, Im also newish to the AMD WS/TR side so dont do what I did and impulse buy the (16 core) 5955WX before researching if it will support max memory channels, because I thought I read somewhere (maybe Level1Techs forums) that 32 cores was minimum for max channels, but I haven't time...

You're right, I somehow conflated H11/H12 since I was just looking again at the hundreds of variations offered by the ebay seller known here in the great-deals thread. Coincidentally I'm also trying to replace a near-decade-old X9SCM-iiF + E3-1240v2 with one of these. On the Workstation front...

No doubt, but my point wasn't that a consumer GPU won't work on an H12, but to be prepared or at least be able to tolerate potential troubleshooting time and headaches with some consumer hardware combinations on a server board, because I've had tons on exactly that board (PCIe link speeds...

That's a similar combo to what I'm building out now (TR Pro + WRX80), but if low power consumption is a real concern then this isn't generally a product class for that. Particularly when it's properly built out with enough DIMMs to enable all the memory channels, it's going to be far higher at...

I'm sure resellers are monitoring with alert-on-change notifications set. And it's not just anon lurkers but anyone from a search engine. With window of buying opportunity sometimes being very narrow on a truly Great Deal, in some instances that extra bit of resistance could make the diff to a...

Good timing, someone can in after you and hoovered everything left at full price- STH effect is savage! I'm starting to wonder if Great Deals might not be better off login-walled.

+1. And to be clear, no disparagement of SPD intended here. They seem legit, their site has been around since 2013 it appears, I'm not aware of any complaints. I"m sure they appreciate "STH effect" traffic their way. The point is understand what you're buying with these types of products. In...

How about something in the middle for performance per temp: leave e-cores enabled but disable hyperthreading? Depending on how much your use case will or won't benefit from HT of course.

6x PCIe 4.0, 2x10GB, 3xM.2, E-ATX Retail USD $960 Spotted at ATIC Computers - Motherboards / Supermicro S4677 - MBD-X13SWA-TF-O - X13SWA-TF Intel W790 LGA-4677 6x PCIe4.0x16 2x 10G-LAN RJ45 IPMI eATX (Speculative) Announcement: Feb 2023, release April 2023

Yep I saw those drives earlier in the year and it was immediately apparent they'd have no legit warranty. Many people don't realize the various shenanigans that go on in the secondary market (used/ebay/surplus/refurb/liquidation) for IT products, and especially harddisks. I've seen resellers...

Drool. And bump for goodguy @BlueFox -- a trustworthy guy I've "forum known" since.. 2007? He always has good stuff.