delta7 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Has anyone bought a second hand processor? anything to be wary of? any good places to source in uk. I am looking to upgrade, the fastest my board will take is a Pentium i7 4990k 4ghz on a LGA1150 socket. Even second hand with a fan Im looking at £250 ish Thanks for any help Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 I think that you cant tell if it will be ok by looking at it. I have a feeling that they work or they dont. I sold Painles my old overclocked to 5 Ghz CPU (i7 4790K 4.4Ghz with Gelid Tranquillo Heatsink/fan ) after 2 years use 2 years ago and its still fine. It might be easier to buy a MB+CPU bundle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DD_Arthur Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 1 hour ago, Crash said: . I sold Painles my old overclocked to 5 Ghz CPU (i7 4790K 4.4Ghz with Gelid Tranquillo Heatsink/fan ) after 2 years use 2 years ago and its still fine. I'm using PropNuts old i7 3930k which has spent nearly all it's nine year old life running at over 4 Ghz. from the stock 3.2 ebay is always worth a watch. Slightly off-topic but if Painless has that cpu and I believe he's running a 1070 also then he'll be fine to drive an ebay Occulus Rift too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 I think its a 1080 but he would rather have higher resolution and frame rates so he is going to wait. I didnt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DD_Arthur Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Hello https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-Core-i7-4770K-4770K-3-5GHz-Quad-Core-BX80646I74770K-Processor-CPU-UK/164183104016?epid=165806598&hash=item263a135a10:g:7IoAAOSwGIZerH~w Not sure I'd buy a second-hand fan though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delta7 Posted May 3, 2020 Author Share Posted May 3, 2020 Thanks all I bid and won that processor on eBay will order cooler and paste tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum Sid Posted May 3, 2020 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted May 3, 2020 7 hours ago, delta7 said: Has anyone bought a second hand processor? anything to be wary of? any good places to source in uk. I am looking to upgrade, the fastest my board will take is a Pentium i7 4990k 4ghz on a LGA1150 socket. Even second hand with a fan Im looking at £250 ish Thanks for any help Dave Something that would affect me if I upgraded the processor on my X99-A Asus motherboard would be that the newer processor would need the Bios to be updated to a newer version. I have never flashed/updated bios so that sort of put me off. Mine has an LGA 2011 v3 socket in the mobo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delta7 Posted May 3, 2020 Author Share Posted May 3, 2020 Yes I would be wary of flashing bios so that's why I checked before I bought an upgrade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum FoolTrottel Posted May 3, 2020 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted May 3, 2020 Flashing a bios is not that scary any more. My Asus board can do it for me from within the Bios itself... just a few clicks, like tell it to go check the internets for it, and it tells you there is an update, or there is not. If there is, ok, go for it. For sure, you may need to re-apply your tunings to the bios, as it will probably was back to factory defaults... in the end, no sweat at all. Smooth! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delta7 Posted May 13, 2020 Author Share Posted May 13, 2020 new processor fitted 😆 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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