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Hello I am thinking about purchasing a used 990X on craigslist and I am not sure if it will be worth it. I have seen some benchmarks and I have noticed a last gen i7 quad core beating it. He is asking 550 for the processor, a motherboard, 12 gigs of ram, and a heatsink.

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Hell no, not for that. The processor is good, but it's an old, inefficient, outdated platform. Get an i7 4770K, Z87 G45, 8GB RAM and an H212EVO for that.

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It is first gen i7 1366 so it is old, not a bad price for it though (people try and sell cpu for that in AUS), remember your getting 6 cores 12 threads.

 

Which i7 are you referring too? 

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It is first gen i7 1366 so it is old, not a bad price for it though, remember your getting 6 cores 12 threads.

 

Which i7 are you referring too? 

Probably a 3820

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Haggle him down to 300-350 and you've got a deal.

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Haggle him down to 300-350 and you've got a deal.

He was very stubborn.

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It is first gen i7 1366 so it is old, not a bad price for it though (people try and sell cpu for that in AUS), remember your getting 6 cores 12 threads.

Which i7 are you referring too?

The 3770k

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The 3770k

If you can get it for around $400-$450 I would consider it

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If you can get it for around $400-$450 I would consider it

Im talking to him right now.

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I would say go for it. It's a 6 core cpu with 12 threads. If you overclock it will easily beat a 4770K.

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For $550 its not a great deal for outdated tech. I don't care how much it was 4 years ago that was 4 years ago and it's 3 gens behind. What's an iPhone 3gs worth? 

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I would say go for it. It's a 6 core cpu with 12 threads. If you overclock it will easily beat a 4770K.

But if you overclock the 4770K it wins. Also I have seen the 8350 nearly beat this on CPUBenchmark.com

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Hell no, not for that. The processor is good, but it's an old, inefficient, outdated platform. Get an i7 4770K, Z87 G45, 8GB RAM and an H212EVO for that.

You forgot to mention that the 990X overclocks better, runs cooler, handles heavily-threaded workloads, and utilizes triple channel memory.

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Hello I am thinking about purchasing a used 990X on craigslist and I am not sure if it will be worth it. I have seen some benchmarks and I have noticed a last gen i7 quad core beating it. He is asking 550 for the processor, a motherboard, 12 gigs of ram, and a heatsink.

Thanks!

Um no.

$550 for a brand new 6 core, 12 threads.

 

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You forgot to mention that the 990X overclocks better, runs cooler, handles heavily-threaded workloads, and utilizes triple channel memory.

i7 4930k overclocks better, handles heavily-threaded workloads, and utilizes quad channel memory. Probably runs cooler too.

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Um no.

$550 for a brand new 6 core, 12 threads.

i7 4930k

But it comes with a mobo + ram

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I would say get a 4770k than.

But thats just my opinion. Im not very fond of used processors..especially one that is over 3 generations old.

But it is a extreme edition 6 core i7 thatcomes with mobo and 1w gigs of ram.

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Get a 4770k a motherboard, and some ram.

Again, its used, u never know what might be wrong. Or could go wrong.

It also has never been OCd but has potential to do so up to around 4-5GHz on air.

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It also has never been OCd but has potential to do so up to around 4-5GHz on air.

$600 and u get brand new stuff and 16gb of ram.

$550 or less if u buy the i7 4770k from Microcenter's countless sales on it.  Microcenter always has sales on the 4770k for like 249.99

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1fHFS

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If you knew the person and knew it wasn't pushed with temps/oc. It might be tempting.

 

From a random dude though? No. I would buy the 4770k. See the post about 4770k $249.99. You can price match Microcenter through staples online.

 

If you live near a microcenter? You can get a decent board, and the 4770k for like 350. Stick 8 gigs of 50 dollar gskill 1600 cl9 that is for sale right now on newegg in it and overclock the ram to 9-10-9-28-t1 and if you are lucky 2133 10-12-10-31-t1 with a slight bump on volts and you will beat that X and use WAY less power doing it. I take it you have to buy a power supply and a case?

 

The PSU you are gonna need for that and a OC is gonna be big.

 

You can oc a 4770k and a 780 and get by on a 55 dollar power supply.

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$600 and u get brand new stuff and 16gb of ram.

$550 or less if u buy the i7 4770k from Microcenter's countless sales on it. Microcenter always has sales on the 4770k for like 249.99

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1fHFS

He just said he would throw in an 80+ silver 750W PSU for free too. And he also said he will give me a beefy CM heatsink.

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CPU: Xeon E3 1230 V3(Haswell) @ 3.7GHz Motherboard: AsRock B85M-ITX RAM: 8GB Corsair Vengeance LP Blue @ 1600MHz Storage: Intel 520 Series 120(Boot), Seagate Barracuda 500GB @ 7200RPM, Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB @ 5400RPM GPU: ZOTAC GTX 970 @ 1.4GHz Case: Node 304 Power Supply: CX430

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