Second hand i7-3930k, worth it?

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Hi,

I have recently been given the opportunity to buy an i7-3930k for the very low price of £70, second hand. I have no knowledge of the history of the chip, whether its spend its life in a properly cooled CPU paradise, or an overclocked undercooled hell for god knows how long.

Now, I can get one of these new for the grand total of £490 so I'm wondering a) why is it so low it seems to good to be true, and b) is it worth it just in case it does work? Any help/advice/what you would do would be extremely helpful.

Cheers in advance!

P.S if i did buy it for a new build, what else would i need? e.g. thermal paste, fan etc...
 
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I would be careful about an unknown for such a low price, but if the seller has a motherboard and can 1) show that it works, 2) you can find a mobo for a good price, then do it. That is still a fairly powerful chip, maybe not as much as some of the newer ones, but it should still be viable. The bad thing is that socket 2011 mobos are getting harder to find and pretty damned expensive.
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I would be careful about an unknown for such a low price, but if the seller has a motherboard and can 1) show that it works, 2) you can find a mobo for a good price, then do it. That is still a fairly powerful chip, maybe not as much as some of the newer ones, but it should still be viable. The bad thing is that socket 2011 mobos are getting harder to find and pretty damned expensive.
 
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Is this someone local, a listing online somewhere, a shop? That price isn't out of line for a used one of these per eBay sales. I can get one for under $150 USD so converted it wouldn't be that far off. I always expect local sales to be at least 20% less than eBay selling prices due to no fee and shipping.
 
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The processor isn't the big expense anymore. Finding a motherboard to use that chip is the expensive part. Very likely, the current or previous owner had a full system based on it, but the motherboard went bad, and it would cost a lot more to replace it. (I have two Xeon E5-2603v2 chips that would be great to use for file servers, but I can't find cheap enough x79 boards to put them in.) The reason is because the sockets are so fragile. All LGA motherboards die far more quickly than the old PGA boards because the pins in the sockets wear out so much easier. This reduces the supply, and with the chips lasting so much longer because they no longer have the pins, we get cheap CPUs and expensive motherboards.
 
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Yeah you're right :/ the mobo's are all ~£200... sigh... think i'll just go with the i3-6100 as my budget isn't very large and I was just trying to find a better price for hardware 10x better. Thanks

 
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