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"Today, these chips sell in used form for as little as $180 on eBay—a more than 90 percent price decrease, a price $100 less than the roughly comparable AMD Ryz
by rybosworld 4y ago
"Today, these chips sell in used form for as little as $180 on eBay—a more than 90 percent price decrease, a price $100 less than the roughly comparable AMD Ryzen 7 2700X"
A 2700x is ~30% faster and also uses less power. Regardless, you can find it for $210, not $280 as the author claims:
https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-7-2700x/p/19-113-499 https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-7-2700x/p/19-113-499
A better comparison would be the 2700, which is actually a fair bit cheaper than the E5-2667 and still outperforms it.
Benchmark:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-Ryzen-7-2700X-vs-Intel-Xeon-E5-2667-v2-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-2700/3238vs2154vs3240 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-Ryzen-7-2700X-vs-In...
A 2700 available for $140:
https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-7-2700/p/19-113-498 https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-7-2700/p/19-113-498
- gravypod 4y agoYou can also buy TR1900x for ~$90 USD now that the platform is dead. In a few years upgrade to 2990wx https://www.ebay.com/itm/133925326383?hash=item1f2e924e2f:g:aRcAAOSwXw9iUUsr https://www.ebay.com/itm/133925326383?hash=item1f2e924e2f:g:...
- somat 4y agoYou are comparing the the price of a cpu to the price of an entire entire system. Add a nice case ~150 a nice power supply ~150 a nice mother board ~150 some ram ~150 storage ~150 and a few nice fans because the fans that come with the case are always terrible ~40 for a fair comparison. The point is you might be able to build a decent computer for under 1000 USD or you could buy a surplus server for ~200.
- rybosworld 4y agoWhat? The price of the Xeon is for the chip alone, not a full server...