I've got a new to me workstation PC (ThinkStation P520) and am pondering CPU and memory upgrades. The board supports both Skylake and Cascade Lake gen Xeon-W CPUs.
On the surface, there appears to be not much more than a frequency bump between those CPU generations, YET, on eBay and elsewhere, the refresh CPUs fetch 3-4x higher price. Not the expert on Xeons, so can someone please explain why this is so? Is there a feature/capability that warrants such a price difference? Are the newer CPUs in much higher demand and/or lower supply for a particular reason?
Thanks,
TF
On the surface, there appears to be not much more than a frequency bump between those CPU generations, YET, on eBay and elsewhere, the refresh CPUs fetch 3-4x higher price. Not the expert on Xeons, so can someone please explain why this is so? Is there a feature/capability that warrants such a price difference? Are the newer CPUs in much higher demand and/or lower supply for a particular reason?
Thanks,
TF