Server equipement - Page 2

I agree wholeheartedly, harsas. I have had to draw the line before because, it's the principle of the thing. I am so up front it is crazy, when people try to screw with me, I take it personally....and my bad side if not the place to be LOL.

I did forget to mention PICTURES....they give you like 8 free...USE THEM. Show defects or anything YOU would look at if you were buying. Then they can't say they didn't know. Old saying is true...CYA...then you will win 99% of the time. Ebay has turned into a PITA with their buyer centric policies, but they are really about the only game in town except for Amazon FBA (a whole different thing there). The market is the market, KNOW the rules for whatever you are doing where you can use them to YOUR advantage.

Yeah, it's a category. To stick with the example I posed, look down on the left sidebar. There is New with box, new without box, and new with defects:

Boots | eBay

For computer parts, there absolutely is a "New Other" category: core i7 in Computer Components and Parts | eBay It doesn't make sense to have a defects category on new computer parts.

I don't sell clothes a lot, but the last time I did (About a year ago), there was a "New Other" category there. Now, there are three "New" options.

to give you an idea of value and diffaculty selling, the most we have ever gotten for used equipment was $18oo for a never used 5 million dollar Sun M-9000 . you need to be an insider to get a fair price. just my experience.

sometimes you can only sell the parts....ie hot swappower supplies, fan arrays, caddies etc. Far more practical than shipping something that could be 100+ pounds. Just a thought.

Originally Posted by eesakiwi

I saw in a advert that somebody here (NZ) was 'wanting a 600watt + power supply' for a gaming computer".

Then yesterday I noticed that the power supply I got from a old server was a 950watt.
Would a old server power supply be usable in a home gaming computer?

There's obviously a whole different sort of power cable connectors, but is it viable?

Not really. The shape is different in the ones I've seen. The tower power supply has wire bundles with several connectors that plug into the computer mother board. The server power supplies I have seen are "slide" in with a connector located on the end of the power supply. Mike