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What happens to Google/Facebook's retired hardware? Is it all just scrapped?

• hyperbovine 10y ago
  They sell it. About a year ago fb decommissioned an old server design, leading to a huge glut of used Xeon E5-2670s flooding the market. Gamers snapped them up for next to nothing. https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/3smipw/psa_thousands_of_cheap_e5_xeons_flood_ebay/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/3smipw/psa_th...
• more_original 10y ago
  No, they sell it. This seems to be the main reason why E5 Xeons became really cheap some time ago. http://www.techspot.com/review/1155-affordable-dual-xeon-pc/ http://www.techspot.com/review/1155-affordable-dual-xeon-pc/
  • ndesaulniers 10y ago
    All the mobos for these cpus aren't ATX, so I'm curious to see what gamers put them in.
    • detaro 10y ago
      Many tower cases easily fit E-ATX, which should have options available.