I recently built a Northwood P4 box in the spirit of ~2005/06 "I need a budget office rig".
Which got me thinking, does anyone know what the price of the 3.06Ghz (curious about the 2.66/2.8 as well) Northwoods were running at the time? New? Used?
I bought a 3.06 GHz Northwood on eBay in 2003. I don't remember the price but can look it up if you really want to know.
Is this too much voodoo?
CPU only ? Here are a few links thru archive org that may give an idea the cost when new. This be New cpu's not used per year in 2004...
https://web.archive.org/web/20040715033928/ht … ategory_cpu.asp
https://web.archive.org/web/20040608164851/ht … rtby=14&order=1
click Next at bottom to see more...
Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun
I always hoped pricewatch circa 1999-2003 would have been archived sadly the price lists for various components never were.
That was the place to get cheap parts after the computer shopper crapped the bed and eBay became astronomical
Before lycos classifieds became a virus fest (can’t remember the original site owner) I used to get decent deals on a lot of parts like hard drives through there with of coarse one or two scams, as a dumb kid I sold some items of dubious value on the classified site but was honest about them and surprised myself when they sold for a 5 or 10 and the buyer was happy
Bought two 2.8C northwood around 2006 (not sure) or so, around 30 each few months apart from ebay. One went into my donated/recycling picked 8300 for work and other one went to family computer.
Don't know why price plunged so quick.
Cheers,
Great Northern aka Canada.
