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Last thanksgiving I bought a Dell T5600 for lesser than the retail price of the two 8 core Xeons that were in it. Its very likely that OEM's get very different
by dman 13y ago
Last thanksgiving I bought a Dell T5600 for lesser than the retail price of the two 8 core Xeons that were in it. Its very likely that OEM's get very different pricing from Intel as compared to retail.
- rsynnott 13y agoThat may just have been disposal of obsolete Xeons (Nehalem?) Intel does not traiditonally give big OEM discounts; their whole business model is based on vast margins.
- dman 13y agoNope the chips were not Nehalem. They were E5-2650 Sandy Bridge. The whole box was for 2200 bucks at the time. Theyre still going for ~1000 each now.
- rsynnott 13y agoHrm, that's interesting. Thanksgiving was almost certainly too easily to be dumping Sandy Bridge Xeons; they still haven't been replaced. Does the model of Dell still exist?
- ihsw 13y agoServer CPU retail prices don't age very well at all, it's not uncommon to see server CPUs retain the same price even until two generations later. Newegg et al will keep the prices sky-high -- even in the face of plummeting sales -- and then discontinue the product line due to "lack of interest." It's absolutely appalling. So, to address your point, as another poster has mentioned you probably had previous-generation CPUs. OEMs get relatively generous discounts at the end of product lifecycles so as to encourage gargantuan purchase orders, and consumers don't see such discounts ever.
- dman 13y agoSee my response to the other poster.