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Bargain basement 4,1s on Ebay
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How do you know I haven't with other usernames?
Maybe I and others would provide more if it weren't for the biased commercial stuff like this
Please enlighten usOr would that be embarrassing
Lou
You seem enlightened already
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Can we keep the post in this thread close to the topics at hand please? Thanks for the link to the 2 at ebay. Emailed them but no response. Appears that the norm on ebay is around $800 for the 4.1 dual cpu. Maybe the prices will drop a little more after the Apple event if they announce any new Mac Pro.
Can we keep the post in this thread close to the topics at hand please? Thanks for the link to the 2 at ebay. Emailed them but no response. Appears that the norm on ebay is around $800 for the 4.1 dual cpu. Maybe the prices will drop a little more after the Apple event if they announce any new Mac Pro.
The Dual CPU configurations are really maintaining value. I picked up one of the ones originally posted by MVC in this thread (thanks again by the way, it's running great) and those were CRAZY cheap. Even locally, they're coming down in price for the single socket. I would imagine that they'll continue to fall in price, especially if we ever get another iteration of the nMP.
Haha yea that's why the eBay deal that I posted sold fast.to bad jetjaguar didn't jump on it now he's going to be waiting again for a deal to pop up. The only time you get deals like that are when its from the original owner most of the time.
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Got a 4,1 single CPU model for $550 about 2 weeks ago. In retrospect I wish I had jumped on the $500 bandwagon when it was rolling, but this one came from original owner and was in good shape apart from some dust. After cleaning out the dust, doing the 4,1 to 5,1 firmware update and installing a X5690 and some 1333 ram it is humming right along. I had not anticipated this level of improvement over my 2008. Next stop: new GPU and a PCIe SSD.
Here is a Tray for $450. Decent price considering it has all that you need. This is a much better option than buying a tray with x5650's since you can buy x5690's and still come out cheaper. That is if you plan to upgrade a 2009. 2010 trays are more expensive and more rare.
Lol keep an eye out I'm sure more will pop up. it's best to set an eBay search that way you get emails on new listings as they pop up. I needed a tray and bought one a few months ago but forgot to remove that search from my email which is how I found it lol
Is this worth it or just hold up on it?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/321767864588?item=321767864588&autorefresh=true
From the look of things it will cost $500~ for a single 4,1 and another $450-500 to convert it to dual. It is around the price of getting the entire dual cpu for $1000. Seems like alot of people are catching on this 12 core upgrade and are charging higher than normal prices for the dual cpu 4,1.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/321767864588?item=321767864588&autorefresh=true
From the look of things it will cost $500~ for a single 4,1 and another $450-500 to convert it to dual. It is around the price of getting the entire dual cpu for $1000. Seems like alot of people are catching on this 12 core upgrade and are charging higher than normal prices for the dual cpu 4,1.
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Oh I thought you had a 4,1 single core already. Yeah the upgrading is why the prices stay high. Last week an 8 vote sold for $800. Just keep an eye out and you save a few hundred. It's not worth 1k in my opinion unless it's in mint condition. Just set up some eBay searches and you'll catch one for $800 or less in a month or two. If you want one asap then it'll cost you. Also try the bidding route. I've seen these sell for $700 with no reserve back on January. I havnt looked up sold prices since though, but in the tech world prices fall not rise. So hold out, FYI buyers control the market not the sellers. So as long as no one pays they lower their prices.
I am suspecting people are hoarding all the dual cpu 4,1 and upgrading to 12 core for a profit. Kinda like flipping 4,1 to 5,1 for couple of $100's. I'm in no rush, I'll just wait it out till the price comes down to a more realisitc value.
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Exactly. Take a look at all the sold listings over the last few months. Deals are out there, you just have to wait.
I bet a lot of them are being hoarded up by those upgrading and selling like you mentioned. The key is to wait for a good buy it now, or snipe some auctions.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro..._salic=1&_sop=15&_dmd=1&_ipg=50&LH_Complete=1
That is probably going to be what happens to my dual CPU 4,1. I will top it out with CPUs and see how it runs compared to my 4,1 6 core. I fear that what I will use it for will not benefit that much from the extra cores.
These make GREAT VMware ESXi servers for home labs, given that they are very quiet, in single socket with 6-cores or dual socket. I have a 2009 single socket I upgraded to single hexacore, and it's great. If I could find another one cheap, single or dual socket, I'll hop on it for use as a second ESXi server.
Looks like I found someone who scooped up a lot of them and their reselling them. I hope no one buys them (although it looks like he already found one fool to buy it) and people learn that it's better and nearly $1000 cheaper to do it themselves. Smh at the people who buy them. The only models that shoud sell for up words of 2k should only be original unmodified 2010+ apple 12 core models.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-Mac-P...262?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item419650be66
Wow that is some markup pricing. Hopefully there are some good new on Monday from Apple that will bring the price down.
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I have no affiliation or knowledge or connection with this person, but I would say that LA is still floating in Mac Pros. So it is also possible that this guy got them off of a Post House that switched to Dell or HP machines.
In a vote of confidence in the cMP, I have been asked to consult on the upgrade of 100+ cMP at a very well known post house. Can't drop the name, as much as i'd like to, but nice to know that not everyone drank the Kool Aid.
So I should start to see some more 4,1 flood the market? Can't wait to get my hands on one. On another note what do you guys thinks of this deal. Someone selling a 4,1 single cpu for $424 and I found a fully upgraded 12 core dual cpu tray for $800. So total of $1200 for a 12 core 4,1 2.66ghz.
Just snagged a 4,1 from Ebay for $400. Now time to look for a good deal on dual cpu tray.