• AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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    6 months ago

    Selling for parts. Techtechpotato did a rough estimate and RAM/CPUs alone are currently worth and 1M (using eBay prices). If you add all the support components (network cards, mainboards, PSUs) it might be worth it.

    • Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      The piecemeal nature of selling thousands of parts means the wages for a group necessary to coordinate it all would probably make the whole thing not feasible.

      Ebay prices are higher than market prices imo. 15% ebay cut + 3% paypal fees + sales tax + shipping is brutal.

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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      6 months ago

      Yes and no. You can sell easily 2-3 units at the current price, but 8000 pieces…

      Technology is improving fast, the E5-2697 v4 has a similar benchmark to a Ryzen 5600, which uses half the power, and making a computer with desktop components is cheaper (except for used registered ECC RAM which is being dumped for cheap)

      And that Ryzen is the old generation, the newer are even faster