Could this be the steal of the century...... ?

[Pooh]

Now before anyone rips into me about how dumb this was, please bear with me

I've been thinking about upgrading my 5960 to either a ThreadRipper or a 7960X and to cut a long story short there was a "New unopened " 7960X listed on the the Bay a few days ago that I put a bid on and won for silly money.

I know about the " If it looks too good to be true, then it probably is" mantra

However, paying for it with Paypal Credit and the Bay's guarantee of what you order is what you get I though what the hell it's worth a punt even if it's only 10-20% likely to be a genuine new 7960X. A bit of research on the seller didn't throw up any obvious red flags.

I've bought a rather tasty Asus Apex MoBo which has arrived and the CPU is supposed to arrive on Tuesday.

If it comes good I'll say what I paid for it, if not I'll shrug my shoulders, have a good whinge to the Bay and get my money back and buy a pucker one anyway.

Fingers crossed for next week. Sometime you just got to take a punt.

Annoying thing is that I've got 2 days of off site corporate stuff next week so it's going to be Thursday/Friday before I can plug whatever I get into the MoBo, assuming that it fits even the socket

I was going to try and set up a poll for a bit of fun but I can't see how to do one these days on this forum.

 

[NoNameNoNumber]

TL;DR
You've bought a cardboard box.

 

[muon]

£670 is hardly silly money. The full price is silly money.

 

[Pooh]

£670 is hardly silly money.

It is when they're going for £1,350 and thanks for killing any suspense in the thread....

 

[muon]

It is when they're going for £1,350

No one is buying them for £1350.

The most recent ebay sales (other than yours) are £870 and £999 but those were buy it nows.

Auctioning a low demand item like the 7960X will always get less.

 

[azazl187]

I would personally be interested in what you bought

 

[Pooh]

I had a look at the 2 other 7960X Muon had mentioned

the £870 one was from Latvia - even less risk there then..

the £999 one was from someone who's account had not been used for a year and the current other items for sale were 2 sets of coloured shoe laces, Oh yes and also a nice new shiney 7980X as well now, funnily enough. No danger that ebay ID has been hacked then. I've filed a fraud alert with eBay on this one.

The user I bought mine from at least had other tech items in their history and the account was active unlike the £999 seller, and I do know that histories can be manipulated.

Like I said, a big punt , but that's the whole point of this thread......

 

[Glanza]

 

[Pooh]

Love the STNG clip

 

[Troezar]

Hope you get a bargain. I rarely do but I don't take that many risks either. I hope you've got some decent cooling

 

[mmj_uk]

£670 is a pretty good deal for a 7960X, if they were that price retail AMD would have to knock a fair chunk off their 1950X price to be competitive. I'd have waited for it to arrive before buying a motherboard though. If they don't want to let it go for that price they'll do the whole "it must have got lost in the mail" routine.

 

[Radox-0]

Dammm, that is a nice price if legit, shudders to make me think what I paid for simply two more cores over that

But yeah, the APEX + that CPU will be a tasty combination with the right workloads compared to your 5960x.

 

[Pooh]

£670 is a pretty good deal for a 7960X, if they were that price retail AMD would have to knock a fair chunk off their 1950X price to be competitive. I'd have waited for it to arrive before buying a motherboard though. If they don't want to let it go for that price they'll do the whole "it must have got lost in the mail" routine.

Know what you mean, it’s all one shot in the dark. I’m going to upgrade anyway so the Mobo wasn’t a major issue. If I do decide to change my mind I can always return it.

I’ve got a Royal Mail tracking number for the cpu so we’ll see what happens next week.

 

[Pooh]

Hope you get a bargain. I rarely do but I don't take that many risks either. I hope you've got some decent cooling

Thanks

Custom loop with a 360 and 240 and a good selection of rad and case fans.

 

[Pooh]

The anticipation builds....

 

[Troezar]

Looking promising

 

[smilingcrow]

When buying from eBay, CeX or other potentially dubious sources I try to remember to video record myself opening the packaging so that I have proof of what's inside.

 

[AiiR]

It is when they're going for £1,350 and thanks for killing any suspense in the thread....

It's not difficult to punch in 7960X on sold listings and sort by most recent.

 

[Pooh]

When buying from eBay, CeX or other potentially dubious sources I try to remember to video record myself opening the packaging so that I have proof of what's inside.

Good idea

 

[koooowweeee]

Can I have your old CPU