What makes this item so special? Its rarity truly adds significant worth.
What makes this item so special? Its rarity truly adds significant worth.
I discovered this item at work a few days ago. It turned out to be one of my coworkers who kept it somewhere in the office, not at home. The old-school PC overclocking feel is appealing, but the owner mentioned he stored it because he wasn’t very experienced with building PCs back then. He left an extra motherboard connector while installing a new one, which caused a short circuit. The owner also said the socket might have been reworked or replaced, and that he bought it in that state. He told me there could be marks from soldering on the back side of the socket. This raises questions about its historical value and whether fixing it makes sense.
It varies; these outdated items could fetch around fifty dollars from passionate collectors, though production will likely be slow.
These boards are being offered at very low prices on eBay. This particular one (lacks the PCIe heat pipe but includes a CPU and RAM) is listed here.
I own two functional dd2 sticks, one with 2GB and another with 1GB. If the motherboard is in good shape, I can purchase a quad-core Xeon on Aliexpress for $10 to assemble a complete system with MOBO-CPU-RAM.
It seems like someone is wondering about potential buyers and the future value of the item, possibly for a museum display after a decade.