Intel Xeon E5-2670 Deal and Price Tracking
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I would not recommend buying the board used unless the seller has a very good reputation. Too many duds out there and not worth the time.
The chips are really awesome. My passmark scores are higher than I had anticipated, 1755 single thread and just about 20 500 for the system. Well worth the $$$ even though I paid retail for the board.
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E5-2670 prices seem to slowly be coming back down from the bump they had over the two weeks or so. They're still not back to $60 though.
$60 is just silly. $80 is just silly. Whoever dumped all these chips what did they buy?
who said they bought anything... they probably have a contract with a major DC and just haul it all away...
This stuff is depreciated. so the former owner needs to get rid of it to make space for newer stuff.
Chris
This stuff is depreciated. so the former owner needs to get rid of it to make space for newer stuff.
Chris
But why are all the other v1 E5 Xeon chips not similarly cheap? Was the 2670 the most popular chip from the Sandy Bridge-EP family used in servers causing a huge glut of 2670 chips vs. all the others? Even v1 E5 chips that are below the 2670 in the lineup that are less powerful are more expensive.
I suspect the used / off lease servers that are out of warranty and are being discarded by businesses are worth more parted out than they are sold whole as a complete server. Hence, parts, not servers.
@Stereodude i'd urge reading through this thread for ideas as to why -- that exact question has come up at least twice now 
Please spill the beans this thread is now only nearly 60 pages long.@Stereodude i'd urge reading through this thread for ideas as to why -- that exact question has come up at least twice now
I decided to go back and read the first ~50 pages of the thread that I hadn't read before and there is no answer. Near the start of the thread there was speculation that Facebook, Google, etc dumped a bunch of servers at the same time causing a big oversupply of them. There was also speculation later in the thread that a big pile of 1000's of CPUs came out of a super computer that was being reworked.
I know the company I work for more or less standardised on the 5670 for high performance servers.
Ok it's only hundreds of them coming of lease or end of life but I can't imagine we are unique. (And that's commercial IT, we did also use them I think in some HPC clusters)
Ok it's only hundreds of them coming of lease or end of life but I can't imagine we are unique. (And that's commercial IT, we did also use them I think in some HPC clusters)
I'm sure this is some of it, but if all the processors are coming from decommissioned servers, there should be a lot of motherboards out there too. There is no glut of cheap LGA2011 motherboards. In fact used motherboards, even x79 boards are $$$. The supercomputer story would explain why there's so many more processors than platforms to put them in.
I hope the E5-2667 v2 suffers a similar fate.
And you have your answer
Large companies with a lot of old servers, and numerous super computers use/d these CPUs
People on this forum were buying racks at a time full of 2011 hardware... there's some of it in pieces too that pops up here and there.
Maybe easier to sell cpu,memory,disks that you can test one by one than complete systems as well.
Some company won't sell disks, we could not sell a board with the iLo license installed as its our company wide key. May just be easier to pull the cpu's and ram at the end.
And I bet a lot is OCP boards are just not wanted by most people.
Some company won't sell disks, we could not sell a board with the iLo license installed as its our company wide key. May just be easier to pull the cpu's and ram at the end.
And I bet a lot is OCP boards are just not wanted by most people.