I saw a lot of people recommending to buy used CPU and other components and to my surprise I saw a lot of CPUs on eBay which are worth 4000$ are sold for 30$? is this too good to be true? or are these heavily damaged and they do not work?
Even if it was worth 600$ and I can get it for 40$ that’s a big win I believe, can you guys share your experience and do you think I can find parts that fit my needs? thank you
You are seeing on eBay CPUs that WERE worth four thousand dollars, now their only use is either scrap or homelab/homeserver usage.
As someone already mentioned numerous times, it’s orders of magnitude more likely that motherboards fail instead of the CPUs: case in point a ESXi server at work that sent some DIMMs belly up because of a faulty motherboard, I somewhat forced the field support technician to not even bother trying the same motherboard with a different CPU (they later tried the same motherboard in their labs with a brand new CPU and the issue stayed the same).
Depending on your workload or activity, even going with refurbished or repurposed chipsets might be the way, as is exactly what a lot of manufacturers on sites such as AliExpress are doing, can save you quite a lot of money and still obtain an acceptable result.
I noticed you asked me in the previous post for some inputs, feel free to ask away either here or via DM, up to you :)