Should I sell Now?

[mcilie]

Ok so around 1.5 years ago, I found a steal deal on this online site.

Its a dual socket workstation, both cpus are Intel Xeon E5-2675 (yes its legit) (2.6 gHz base).

Each Cpu has a 16 cores and 32 threads, for a total of 32 cores and 64 threads and that 80 pcie lanes.

The mother board is a s2600cp intel server board.

The config came with  a radeon Rx 480 (4gb), 128 gigs of DDR3 ram, and 4tbs of HDD storage.

 

Grand total: (~ $1500 dollars)

 

Im concerned that the GPU mining craze is slowly fading away

and that im going to miss an opportunity to sell this workstation and get more money than when I bought it

I searched up 128 gigs of ram today and it was worth > ~$1200. 

 

Do I Sell, or do I keep?

 

[Blackie Sheen]

Just now, mcilie said:

wrong forum section. Ask a mod to move it to general or whatever this goes into

 

[W-L]

-Moved to New Builds and Planning- 

[AntiTrust]

its free to put up ads and its not like you have any obligation to actually sell. See what people will give you for that thing

[Tabs]

The actual system itself really isn't that lucrative to miners. It's too powerful, too old, and too inefficient. They look for as cheap and efficient a board as possible, and then each card is fed data through a 1x pcie lane anyway with risers - a fundamental limit is around 16 or 24 gou's depending on the family (nvidia/amd), so going for super high lane count is bad economy for miners.

 

You'll definitely be able to make a decent amount of money on the ram, you could sell 3/4 of it and still have a really good machine. Possibly your gpu too. But the rest of the build is more for enthusiast (traditional) builders than for miners, and that market (especially used) hasn't been impacted much by the mining rush.