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I have found an i7-3930K at a second hand store for £115 (that's around $150USD, including VAT). I have a couple of questions...

 

  • How trustworthy is this, it seems too good to be true?
  • Being a hexacore CPU, will it still perform in games?
  • How hard/expensive will it be to find an LGA2011 mobo to go with it?

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4 minutes ago, SamwiseDB said:

I have found an i7-3930K at a second hand store for £115 (that's around $150USD, including VAT). I have a couple of questions...

 

  • How trustworthy is this, it seems too good to be true?
  • Being a hexacore CPU, will it still perform in games?
  • How hard/expensive will it be to find an LGA2011 mobo to go with it?

Depends where

It will be fine

eBay

Needs money for car parts :P

 

System specs: Core i7 9700k, Dark Rock Pro 4 , MSI Z390 PRO, 16GB CORSAIR VENGENCE DDR4 3000, ASUS RTX3080Ti, Corsair AX860, Seagate 1TB, Sandisk 240GB SSD, Samsung 1TB SSD, Corsair 400c

 

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6 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

Depends where

It's CEX, which, not gonna lie, does have a bit of a reputation.

They do say they'll demo anything, but I doubt they have a test bench under the counter to stick it into.

 

There was also a 4460 for £95, which, after an eBay trip, seems a little more reasonable of a purchase, but I'm still tempted to have a way over-the-top CPU in my budget system.

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Just now, SamwiseDB said:

It's CEX, which, not gonna lie, does have a bit of a reputation.

They do say they'll demo anything, but I doubt they have a test bench under the counter to stick it into.

They should do, ik the CEX here has one since my friend got them to test a Fury X for him (who trades in a fury x??)

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System specs: Core i7 9700k, Dark Rock Pro 4 , MSI Z390 PRO, 16GB CORSAIR VENGENCE DDR4 3000, ASUS RTX3080Ti, Corsair AX860, Seagate 1TB, Sandisk 240GB SSD, Samsung 1TB SSD, Corsair 400c

 

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

 

  • Worth: £654 (£221 with sales)
  • Games owned: 62
  • Games played: 52 (83%)
  • Hours on record: 2,980.7h

 

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1 minute ago, SamwiseDB said:

That completely changes my view of CEX, thanks for the info, and, yeah, who does trade in a Fury X?

They also had a 390x, Titan Black, and a bunch of CPU's. Shame I couldnt afford any of them at the time

Needs money for car parts :P

 

System specs: Core i7 9700k, Dark Rock Pro 4 , MSI Z390 PRO, 16GB CORSAIR VENGENCE DDR4 3000, ASUS RTX3080Ti, Corsair AX860, Seagate 1TB, Sandisk 240GB SSD, Samsung 1TB SSD, Corsair 400c

 

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

 

  • Worth: £654 (£221 with sales)
  • Games owned: 62
  • Games played: 52 (83%)
  • Hours on record: 2,980.7h

 

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