FS: ALL SOLD

[Icecold]

I was able to source 10 BC-250 boards, and am keeping one and selling the other 9. There's a lot of information about them in this thread (https://hardforum.com/threads/my-interest-in-the-amd-bc-250-not-for-greed-but-for-progress.2043208/) which has a lot of helpful resources, but they're essentially a cut down PS5 that were sold for mining as part of a larger machine. They are fairly close to a Steam machine in terms of gaming performance, but come with a lot of caveats (require custom cooling, are not a standard ATX/micro ATX/mini itx board layout, have to run Linux, need to do some software tweaking to get it to perform well, etc.). Please do not buy one without understanding what you're getting into, this is a pretty well performing option at a great price if you're willing to put the effort into it but it takes some tinkering and knowledge. Price is firm at $175 each shipped to the contiguous US paid in a fee free manner (Zelle, Venmo, Cash App, Paypal F&F). If you want to buy more than one I can make a deal on more than one since shipping will be less, but I'm pretty close to break even on these already but wanted to give the community a chance to get some at below eBay pricing.

I will test each one again before shipping but if you receive it and it doesn't work you can send it back within 30 days but please only buy it if you understand what you're getting into. There are very minor cosmetic issues on some of them, mostly a bracket that's not even used that was slightly bent that I bent back into place. Overall they're in pretty great shape. I attached a picture of the bracket that shows it's a little bent and was bent back in place. You will need an m.2 drive, cooling and PSU (powered by an 8 pin PCIe power cable) but it already has the CPU/APU and RAM integrated. I will be unavailable to ship Monday 9/28 through Wednesday 9/30 but wanted to post it now since I can ship them out tomorrow 9/24 and Friday 9/25 if anybody wants one now and then will pause sales after that until Thursday 10/1. My Heatware is under Icecold ( https://www.heatware.com/u/38484 ) and I have dual factor enabled. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

Edit - to reply to the post below from DaedalusHelios since I don't think I can reply to this thread without an infraction for bumping it prematurely - I have not binned them. I purchased one from the seller initially to mess around with and hacked up the heatsink fins to be able to put a fan on top of it. That's the one I'm keeping since the heatsink is kind of messed up. I don't remember if I unlocked all 40 CUs on the one I'm keeping or not. I then got the 9 remaining BC-250's that the seller had and have confirmed they're not DOA but haven't modified them in any way or tested past that. I can probably verify how many CUs unlock and if they run stable after after next Thursday but any extra labor I put into them would raise the price(at least on any that have more CUs unlock) so ideally I'd like to just sell them for $175 each and they are what they are. If it seems like they're not selling though I'll bin them after next Thursday. I appreciate the input and idea to bin them - thank you!

Edit 2 - currently pending sale on all boards

Edit 3 - all sold. Will post some other stuff in the next week or 2 and update the thread then

 

[DaedalusHelios]

Consider binning them based on how many CUs that unlock. Considering how you are keeping one, have they been binned already? If they unlock all 40 CUs and run stable, they are worth more. Any amount over 24 CUs is a plus.

 

[Duffbuster243]

I bought one of these a few months ago, such a fun thing to tinker with. You can now unlock all 8 cores of the processor along with all 40 of the CUs if you have a good board. I got lucky with mine.