4x LGA1356 Intel Xeon E5-2430L ES chips $150!!!!

[MiniKnight]

Anyone know how well QA94 chips work on motherboards?

4 Intel Xeon Processor's QA94 ES 2GHz 15M 7 2GTS 6 Core E5 2430L Sandy Bridge | eBay

Pretty smokin' deal if they work in boards. 6 core 15MB cache and low power.

 

[PigLover]

Its interesting, but $150 is just the auction start price. They will go higher. Ceiling is his $599 buy-it-now, which still looks like a good deal at $150/each - but this is a much lower performance chip than the E5-2660s going for $175 last week (and still available from others at $220).

Don't know what MBs they might be compatible with.

If I was going to be playing the Extra Spicy chip game right now I think I'd be going after the QA8Xs. Without credible reports of what MB/Bios rev is known to work you are still risking MB compatibility issues.

 

[MiniKnight]

Been watching these for days. No bids yet. Thinking as alternative to DP l5520

 

[PigLover]

Items like this are watched by professional buyers. Bids will come in the last hour of the auction...if they don't - awesome. But they probably will.

 

[mrkrad]

everyone on ebay uses sniping software man and mis-spell search software.

 

[Patrick]

Wow this went for $150! Just looked at it.

 

[gigatexal]

ahh dont tell me about e5s at 220 a piece.... I need another high end rig like I need a hole in my head.

 

[PigLover]

Wow this went for $150! Just looked at it.

It didn't sell...it was withdrawn by the seller. Search it as a "completed listing" and you'll see it shown as an incomplete auction with a note "this listing was withdrawn by the seller due to an error in the listing". Error - I'll say!

 

[madhedonist]

Hey Pig, would you mind pointing me in this direction?? (The E5-2660 for @$220)

 

[Andreas]

Hey Pig, would you mind pointing me in this direction?? (The E5-2660 for @$220)

http://forums.servethehome.com/grea...l-xeon-8-core-2-3-ghz-lga2011-es-b0-$175.html

 

[PigLover]

Hey Pig, would you mind pointing me in this direction?? (The E5-2660 for @$220)

Search QA8X on eBay. Thee is one current listing with incorrect titles that calls this an E5-2630. Not sure I'd trust that seller as he does not appear to know what he is selling. The others are all currently sold out, but I expect they will be back.

 

[madhedonist]

Do you know what the difference is between the QA8X and the QB7B? I see quite a few variants of the QB prefix on ebay. Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

 

[PigLover]

Do you know what the difference is between the QA8X and the QB7B? I see quite a few variants of the QB prefix on ebay. Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

QA8X is an ES 8 core, 2.3ghz variant E5-2660 that never released for sale.

QB7B is an ES version of the 'normal' 2.2ghz E5-2660

 

[madhedonist]

Gotcha. Last Q, How risky is it to try one of these processors? Should they work as efficiently as their retail counterparts?

 

[PigLover]

The C0 steppings of the retail version should be quite safe (I.e., QB7B). The more unusual chips that do not realy have a commercial vraion (I.e., QA8X) are going to have a very limited set of MBs that will recognize them. But once you get a working configuration you won't notice that its an ES.