- Joined
- May 6, 2008
I was talking to my friend and he has his old computer consisting of i7-930, 12GB RAM, and Asus Rampage III Gene Micro ATX LGA1366 mobo. It has been sitting around for a year or so and I mentioned I might buy it to hold me over until ZEN upgrade or something if the price was right.
Well I looked up the specs and the processor and ram have dropped significantly. Processor $45, RAM to $35 or so, but the mobo is worth $300+ on ebay.
As you can see in my sig the last time I built a computer for myself was a Q6600 so I am a little out of date.
Correct me if I am wrong, but for just over $300 I can invest in a 6th gen i5, cheap mobo, and ~8GB of ram. In the end I will have a faster computer.....ie: a few programs that make use of 8 threads of the older i7????
Anyway I offered him $200 for the mobo,proc, ram. See what he says......
Well I looked up the specs and the processor and ram have dropped significantly. Processor $45, RAM to $35 or so, but the mobo is worth $300+ on ebay.
As you can see in my sig the last time I built a computer for myself was a Q6600 so I am a little out of date.
Correct me if I am wrong, but for just over $300 I can invest in a 6th gen i5, cheap mobo, and ~8GB of ram. In the end I will have a faster computer.....ie: a few programs that make use of 8 threads of the older i7????
Anyway I offered him $200 for the mobo,proc, ram. See what he says......