I have eaten now, lets do this!
Inside the bubble wrap inside of more bubble wrap inside the wrapping-paper inside the paper inside the box we find some aluminium foil
Inside the bubble wrap inside of more bubble wrap inside the wrapping-paper inside the paper inside the box we find some aluminium foil.jpg
I'm skipping another step here as I need two image slots for the next exciting Ebay adventure.
In the paper inside the aluminium foil inside the bubble wrap inside of more bubble wrap inside the wrapping-paper inside the paper inside the box we find... A CPU! (In fact two in fact as there were two small foil packages).
In the paper inside the aluminium foil inside the bubble wrap inside of more bubble wrap inside the wrapping-paper inside the paper inside the box we find... A CPU!.jpg
Aaaaaand that's why Ebay shipping is so expensive!
These are two Barton XP-M 2500+ 1.45V CPUs. 😀
The next adventure is even more exciting!
I won this CPU lot with an opening bid of £20! The auction had been in my watch list for agas and no one seemed interested but for some reason I took a closer look and then decided to bid eventhough the shipping cost was pretty steep as you can see.
The CPU lot I won with an opening bid..jpg
Here is the sellers picture showing the gods (this was the only picture). Use your resize, enhance and sharpen skills to see if you can spot the mismatch in the auction text when compared to the CPUs in the picture.
The sellers full size image showing the lot (it was the only image .jpg
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.