Is this a scam?

[Samivan911]

I was poking around amazon for computer/server parts and came across this. Is it a scam or a really good deal. I do know that it’s renewed but the list price for new is 1100 dollars. 

[Guest]

A quick ebay search has these for 20-50$

 

You'd  just be over paying that's all...

[Guest]

The new price is very far off. It's not worth that much, it's 8 years old.

[Samivan911]

Are these useful for anything? I mean if they are only 20-70 bucks they can’t be used for much. 

[WereCatf]

1 minute ago, Samivan911 said:

Are these useful for anything? I mean if they are only 20-70 bucks they can’t be used for much. 

Not really, unless you get one for free. They're old, slow and power-hungry. Even a quad-core, low-end Ryzen 3 3300X runs absolute circles around that thing.

[Samivan911]

Ok. Makes sense. Thank you. 

[Guest]

14 minutes ago, Samivan911 said:

Are these useful for anything? I mean if they are only 20-70 bucks they can’t be used for much. 

If you can get them for really cheap, you can run a home lab if you have any use for that. If you can find used hardware that's compatible with it for cheap it could make sense. Maybe a stream encoding system, maybe if you want to run a server, or any other solutions you can come up with.

[VeganJoy]

if you could find components cheaply for it and had a very specific workload that benefits from quad channel memory despite each channel being pretty slow (ddr3) then it would possibly be useful ish 

 

but you can just get a first gen threadripper for that