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I realize this is just an anecdote, but I replaced the motherboard for my PC (an HP Z420) and it was dirt cheap IMO ($50). I have no idea what a fair market pr
by bentcorner 5y ago
I realize this is just an anecdote, but I replaced the motherboard for my PC (an HP Z420) and it was dirt cheap IMO ($50). I have no idea what a fair market price for it is but it's perfectly reasonable.
You can find tons of similar models like my PC for sale on ebay for dirty cheap and they are perfectly acceptable for home use.
No, they will not sip power like an M1 or pair well with a RTX 3090 but they will do everything else just fine.
That said, I think it's only because the demand hasn't reached this low yet. But there's still a fair amount of supply left and it's a mixed blessing that the last few years hasn't seen drastic CPU performance gains that hasn't yet been stripped away by software, so anything even a decade old could be suitable, depending on your use case.