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by sambull 782 days ago
any I've dealt with definitely wouldn't touch the 'you need to hire professional movers costing you $10k's of dollars to get it out of the facility' stipulation - they seem to prefer the 'where's the location of the storage shed' situation.
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vel0city 782 days ago
There's 8,064 E5-2697v4's in this. Those go on ebay for ~$50/ea. That's $400,000 of just CPUs to sell.

If the winning bid is $100k, you spend $40k to move it out of there, another $10k warehousing it while selling everything on ebay, and you're still up $250k on the processors alone.

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EvanAnderson 782 days ago
> That's $400,000 of just CPUs to sell.

But do you crater the market for those CPUs? What's the demand for 2016-era Xeons and how much of their price comes down to supply?

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ansible 782 days ago
I presume no one is building new motherboards for those processors either. While there is old stock laying around, you really need to run those systems close to as-is for them to be useful.
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pantalaimon 782 days ago
> I presume no one is building new motherboards for those processors either

That's actually far from the truth, LGA2011 is quite popular as a budged gaming system precicely because CPUs are so cheap on the 2nd hand market.

https://aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-X99.html

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toast0 782 days ago
These are high spec cpus for the socket though. Lots of room for people with compatible boards that want to upgrade.

There's a lot of low budget hosting with old Xeon systems (I'm paying $30/month for a dual westmere system; but I've seen plenty of offers on newer gear); you can still do a lot with an 18 core Broadwell, if the power is cheap.

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alchemist1e9 782 days ago
And how much labor costs to earn that $250K? Once that is factored in, I’m guessing fair price is zero or negative.

Plus knowing a bit about warehouse costs … your $10K is a bit on the low side don’t you think?

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bombcar 782 days ago
It's for the processors alone - a scrapping company dedicated to this stuff would be able to actualize more from other components - and they often have warehouse space available that they already own.

Let's come back and see if the auction failed; I doubt it will.

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