Intel Dual Core Xeon 5130 2.0ghz Fsb1333 4mb

[martianrobot]

I just bought one of these on a competitors website for £2.36 ... with free delivery.

Is this a good CPU at that price?

 

[martianrobot]

What're you going to put it in?

The post, to some lucky chap with £200 to spare on eBay.



To be honest though, I'm not expecting it to be honoured. Like the time last year when I ordered an AMD 64 4200+ for less than £50 and they told me that was an error and if I still wanted it I could pay the £100 difference or whatever.

Mind you, single core AMD 64s of a similar rating arent far off that price now anyway.

But hey, if they do honour it, then what shall I do with it? What sort of mobo will I need to put it in, and will I be able to add in my new 8800 GTS (arriving tomorrow) and kick Daedra butt maxed out at 1920x1080?

Hmmmm. The Dual Core Xeon is the same CPU they put in the new Mac Pro isn't it? Except they have two of them in there of course. Nice.

 

[martianrobot]

Well, as an update, my payment has been taken, goods allocated, and I have a shipping date of 3rd April.

Meh.

 

[martianrobot]

Nevermind i found it! i ordered one two!

You sure?

I got the last one. They showed up as out of stock 15 mins after mine was ordered.

Or perhaps there is another site where the web monkey made an error and put the decimal point two digits to the left too far!

 

[martianrobot]

Update

It's been shipped.

I should get it tomorrow.

LMFAO

I read their Ts & Cs though...

"If within 14 days of accepting your order a pricing error is found in respect of any or all of the goods you have ordered, we will notify you as soon as possible detailing the mis-priced goods and offering you the option of... blah blah blah"

Lemme see... I ordered on 27th, so if they don't contact me by 10th April it's mine.

Best I sit on it till then, and in the meantime do a bit of research into cheap Xeon workstation motherboards

 

[martianrobot]

what are they going to do? Send baliffs round? I think not.. keep it and if they try and charge your card go to town on them.

I'd rather just sit on it and see.

I had taken '14 days after acceptance of order' to mean 14 days after I placed my order and received a confirmation email, but I did read somewhere that 'acceptance' might mean when payment was taken, or when the item was picked, or even when the item was shipped/received.

So I've left it till now to make sure. It's two weeks tomorrow since I received it. I think Ill be safe then to whack it on ebay, though I doubt it'll fetch more than £150. Still, not a bad return from a £2.78 investment

After looking at the price of Xeon motherboards I decided to give making a new system incorporating this beast of a processor a miss, unless anyone can come up with something with a 16x PCI-express slot for under £150. But would I have to get another Xeon 5130? The box says it has to be used in a dual processor configuration.

Ta

 

[martianrobot]

Looks like you bagged a bargain. Good result.

LOL

I think 'bargain' is a slight understatement in this case.

More like 'criminally theft-like purchase due to webmonkey typo' sums it up better.

Been looking at mobos and stuff, considering building a new workstation. Here's the spec... is it worth the expense to upgrade from my current rig (see sig)

Supermicro X7DAE mobo - £300
Second Xeon 5130 - £200
Crucial 2gb ECC memory - £150

Might stick with my 7600GT, but possibly upgrade to 8800GTS.

I'd use it Windows XP Pro for video editing and graphics, as well as web development and gaming. Will XP Pro take advantage of the 2 x Dual Core Xeons? I'd probably also try install Mac OSX on a seperate drive for a bit of Garageband music production etc. A Hackintosh Pro at less than half the price of Apples anyone?

My current rig will become my Media Centre PC plugged into a 26" LCD TV via VGA - would be nice to have a fairly fast PC for all my media stuff, TV recording and gaming from my sofa with an Xbox 360 controller (replacing the slightly clunky and crash-prone AMD64 3000+ machine with integrated graphics I'm currently using)

Any thoughts on the matter folks? I'm not rolling in cash at the moment but there's no rush to upgrade.