Dang, I assume those were bought used, because those are about $1300 a piece retail.

Oh yah, definitely used. I got the pair of matching CPUs for $450 used off eBay

Nice. Are you also selling the 2640s to recoup some of the investment? or holding onto them just in case?

@paddy-stone I was thinking about selling them but since I probably won't get more than $70 for the pair, I'll hold onto them for now.

nice upgrade , though you can actually get a pair of 2695 v2 chips from taobao for about the same price after shipping.

https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.22.12bd45c7B7WCy3&id=556227075330&ns=1&abbucket=9#detail

edit: actually, shipping to eagleland is less than i thought, you'd actually save a few dollars 

Yeah, I have a hard time getting the will to sell stuff, I always think that I might find a use for it someday or just for backup hardware.. even though I already have 3 PCs + laptop + NAS + backup PC (that's in the loft and hasn't been used in years)

And I'm also thinking of getting a 2200g for use as an htpc/retro gaming/emulator instead of the 6700K I have at the moment.lol