I've got an Asus Sabertooth X79, Intel i7 3930K and 4x8Gb Kingstron HyperX DDR3 (1866mhz pretty sure) kicking around that I'm not using at the moment, and have been keeping aside to setup a desktop for the "wife" when we move in together in the coming months, but I recently acquired a Gigabyte z370 Aorus Gaming 7 board with an i5 and 16gb of ram and have been accumulating other more recent hardware so I'm kind of thinking of selling the X79, but not sure. Wanted to gauge what it's worth
On the flip side, I've been tempted to keep the board and get a used Xeon E5-2667 v2 or E5-2690 v2 to bump the thing up to 8 or 10 cores and then probably still not give it to the wife and use it for something else.
Looking at ebay prices, the 3930k seems to list anywhere between 120-200. The Sabertooth X79 board listings seem to start at 195$ ranging up over 500$ which seems ridiculous to me. The ram seems to list around 30-40$ per 8gb stick, that's of course going by ebay prices.
That puts the package at around 450~$ maybe based on rough guessing off ebay. Does that sound about right or does it seem a bit high because it seems like a lot to me for an older X79 setup
On the flip side, I've been tempted to keep the board and get a used Xeon E5-2667 v2 or E5-2690 v2 to bump the thing up to 8 or 10 cores and then probably still not give it to the wife and use it for something else.
Looking at ebay prices, the 3930k seems to list anywhere between 120-200. The Sabertooth X79 board listings seem to start at 195$ ranging up over 500$ which seems ridiculous to me. The ram seems to list around 30-40$ per 8gb stick, that's of course going by ebay prices.
That puts the package at around 450~$ maybe based on rough guessing off ebay. Does that sound about right or does it seem a bit high because it seems like a lot to me for an older X79 setup
