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Multi-million dollar Cheyenne supercomputer auction ends with $480,085 bid — buyer walked away with 8,064 Intel Xeon Broadwell CPUs, 313TB DDR4-2400 ECC RAM, and some water leaks (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (19 children)

Is that a good deal? I mean, it says "multi-million" and then it sells for less than 1/2 million, so I'm guessing good deal.

IDK, part it out on eBay?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The CPUs are almost 10 years old. What are they supposed to be worth?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

About $15 per CPU on ebay or so, so about $121,000 USD for the CPU's alone

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Have fun selling 8000 individual CPUs on eBay, so handling, storage, shipping... and even if that is for free it would only be 1/4 of what they paid. Not too mention that flooding the marked will mean the pieces goes down.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That is true and all, but have it occur to you the person who's spending all this might not care about money?