Core 2 Quad 9450

[W.Feather]

Quick question on this.....my friend has a dell xps he want to get rid of, and I said I may be interested in buying the CPU/HDD/RAM off of it so i can make a on the cheap good lan rig.....Was wondering about what it is a fair price to offer for a Q9450, looked at fleebay and all of them were north of $200, which to me doesnt seem right.....so any ideas?

 

[ivandurago]

I picked up my q9450 used off our FS/FT forums on ~Nov 2008 for $170.

You can get a new q9550 at Microcenter for ~$170 now and new i5/i7/x4 procs are all south of $200.

I would think maybe $135-145 might be a reasonable price? Maybe that is even high, also would depend how long he has had it and if it has been OC'ed/properly cooled.

 

[W.Feather]

never any OC, always been in a room at 71C, so pretty much prestine condition........lol

He had said $100, i figured that may be a bit low(a friend so i dont really want to low ball him), ill probably just take him up on that though

 

[W.Feather]

anyone know of a good board that will OC pretty well? I know from some reviews I could find that It can hit ~3.2 GHz easy.....(I have decided ill buy it off of him)

since I am thinking of making a LAN rig out of it, i'm thinking a mATX mobo would be a good idea. Are there any good ones that would support SLI'd 9800GTX(ive got one of em now, when I replace it in my main rig i may just add another at the same time).....pretty much open to anything at this point, nothing new is being released, so ive got all the time to find a good price on something(no brand preference)

any help would be greatly appriciated

 

[W.Feather]

Well, ill be buying it from him for probably $130....will be getting a never OC'd 9450(runs at 35C idle, with whatever aluminum dell cooler is on it), 4 GB of no name memory(will just swap it into one of my backup machines I think and have the OCZ platinum's in there for the lan rig), plus a 320GB HDD.....seems like a decent deal to me

 

[sabregen]

I have a pair of DFI P45 Jr. T2RS's, both full retail for sale, if you're still looking for a good OC'ing board for a LAN rig. It's P45 though, so Crossfire capable (was running a pair of 5850's) but not SLI. I don't know of a single mATX SLI capable board, to be honest.

 

[sabregen]

I take that back, there's this DFI board, but it's going to be single slot SLI only, no dual slot cards.

http://www.motherboardpro.com/DFI-L...-Micro-ATX-DFI-Motherboard-Retail-p-1254.html

 

[W.Feather]

hmm, ill have to look at just doing a bit bigger of a build....dont plan on building for over a month(out of country), but my friend is just offering too good of a price to not jump on it now lol, worst case I end up helping a friend get sub's for his car and i dont use it lol

 

[guitarslingerchris]

I got one hell of a deal, but I picked up my Q9450 this spring for $125 shipped.

 

[W.Feather]

and pushed it to 4.2 i wont go that far, but well see how it goes, have to wait a few days(till I order my tablet and see what ive got left over in spending cash) to buy it off of him

 

[W.Feather]

Just got the chip. Id on it is:

SLAWR MALAY
L822A863

I dont know anything about intel batch numbers. Is that a good one? So far ive only paid $75 for it. Will be doing $25 more. So in the end i am paying $100.

Wondering what oc ill get