So, there's a boatload of Xeon platinum 8180's being sold on ebay. They're from China, (pirated?) and they only work on a handful of MB's. I've found an MB on Newegg that I believe will work.
Anyone ever buy a chip like this before? Besides MB compatibility issues, what other problems down the road could show up?
They go for ~$800 on ebay, and the real cpu typically sells for ~$10k new.
My chief reason for buying it would be for distributed computing, though I would also use the...
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Anyone ever buy a chip like this before? Besides MB compatibility issues, what other problems down the road could show up?
They go for ~$800 on ebay, and the real cpu typically sells for ~$10k new.
My chief reason for buying it would be for distributed computing, though I would also use the...
Read more