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Questions about selling 1366 motherboard - Prices seem amazingly high

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July 12, 2014 2:40:43 PM

I have a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R 1366 socket motherboard which runs fine but I just got some new samsung Evo SSDs and I'm annoyed that the marvel sata3 ports were never any good on this board so I'll need to use the intel sata 2 ports which means I won't get the best performance from the SSDs.

Anyway, I was thinking about selling the mb and was poking around ebay and I guess I was expecting to see dirt low prices but to my suprise these boards (socket 1366) are going for more than I paid three years ago. I did a few quick searches and someone suggested that since they don't make this board with these sockets anymore some people need them for replacements and other folks are putting cheap Xeon processors in them for some reason. Why would someone pay so much for a replacement board? And why would an old Xeon in an old board be better than a new setup?

If anyone has some idea about what's going on here I'd love to get some more info. Personally I'd love to upgrade to a new rig and would love to get some build cash from this. I guess my main question is that I also have a i7 930 and 6gb of corsair dominator ram that goes with the board - should I sell them all together as a package? Or do people just want the mb? I'm afraid if I sell the mb alone, I'll be stuck with the i7 and the ram. Also, if I sell, it's cheaper to pay one shipping fee if I sell them all together.

Anyone have any sense on the best way to proceed here?

Option 1 - leave things as is, drop the SSDs in and don't worry about it.
Option 2 - sell everything separately
Option 3 - sell the mb, ram, and cpu as a package
Option 4 - sell the whole computer

Also I'm up in Vermont so Craig's list does not have many buyers for this sort of thing so I guess I'd have to go eBay - any other options for this type of sale?

Any perspectives on this would be greatly appreciated.

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July 12, 2014 3:25:24 PM

You can still run an SSD on your motherboard and its performance will still be about twice as good as an HDD. But if you're keen on upgrading to the latest tech, then sell the CPU and motherboard and upgrade to a 4790k CPU and a z97 motherboard.
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July 12, 2014 5:51:33 PM

Joseph, thanks for the reply, but that does not really speak to my question. I understand SSDs and the upgrade options, I actually have an intel x25 in this rig already. My questions involve understanding the real reasons behind the high 1366 mb prices so that I can optimize a sale. Thanks.
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