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**matador** · 08-16-2014, 07:02 PM

Valuable? Socket 423 | eBay

Am I missing something? Some sold for $0.43 with free shipping! Is there a special 423 to look for? I know the fastest chip for a socket can be valuable.

What am I missing?

**aoshea** · 08-16-2014, 07:06 PM

Getting ready to send a small 33 pound shipment to pop my e-waste cherry. I would recommend using the pre-paid labels as my quote was 22% cheaper than what FEDEX was offering standard. One thing to note is gmail put the shipping quote in the spam folder so I missed it at first. My shipping worked out to $0.64/lb which was less than I was expecting for a smallish load. I will post reviews when it all goes through. I am excited to see how close my grading is to what ewasted decides.

**Phantoms001** · 08-16-2014, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by matador

Valuable? Socket 423 | eBay

Am I missing something? Some sold for $0.43 with free shipping! Is there a special 423 to look for? I know the fastest chip for a socket can be valuable.

What am I missing?

If you look at the picture of the processors that were posted there is no speed on the processors. These are test chips, which is why they are marked confidential. You can come across processors by intel marked "ES" (engineering sample) and "confidential" which were not released to the public but still made it into odd machines. They are rare and lots of people in the computer field collect them. They bring a premium.

Intel Xeon E7 8870 30M Cache 2 40 GHz Q5DW ES Confidential Missing Resistor | eBay
New Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 CPU Processor QGPK ES Confidential 2 83GHz 12MB 1333 | eBay

But that really should be a topic for a separate thread, we shouldn't hijack ewasted's thread.

**matador** · 08-16-2014, 08:14 PM

Originally Posted by Phantoms001

If you look at the picture of the processors that were posted there is no speed on the processors. These are test chips, which is why they are marked confidential. You can come across processors by intel marked "ES" (engineering sample) and "confidential" which were not released to the public but still made it into odd machines. They are rare and lots of people in the computer field collect them. They bring a premium.

Intel Xeon E7 8870 30M Cache 2 40 GHz Q5DW ES Confidential Missing Resistor | eBay
New Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 CPU Processor QGPK ES Confidential 2 83GHz 12MB 1333 | eBay

But that really should be a topic for a separate thread, we shouldn't hijack ewasted's thread.

Got it! Sadly, mine are just average chips. Good catch, though. I didn't notice the image was of prototype processors. Mine are the same socket, but they're just worthless 1.5 GHz Pentium 4's.

Back on track: I'm assuming the motherboards are large socket, and the CPUs are Green Fiber with heatsink and pins?

Slightly off track: On these (and the Socket 478 Pentium 4s), would I make more money leaving the heatsinks on or removing them? The price for processors without heatsinks is about $10/pound higher. Is it wiser to leave the heatsinks on, or to pull them and sell them separately (As aluminum???)

Thanks!