CeX have the Intel Core i3-3220 Socket 1155 cpu for only £15 collected or + £2.50 delivery. CeX also give 2 year warranty:
CeX offers a 24 month warranty* (on all items purchased on or after 14th Nov 2015) on all items except consumables. The CeX 24 month warranty* does not cover physical damage, water damage, or any damage caused by unlocking a mobile phone, and only covers software faults arising in the course of normal use.
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mannin
6 Aug 17#1
Cex is two years warranty on everything I thought?
KiNG
6 Aug 17#2
i was looking at the warranty terms, within 6 months they will refund at full price or get it fixed, after the 6months to 24months they will give you market value only !!
Agharta to KiNG
6 Aug 17#3
Which is fine on a £15 CPU especially as the market value is hardly likely to fall much and these are almost certainly more than this on ebay with no warranty. Buying CPUs that can't be overclocked doesn't have much risk.
superivanho
6 Aug 17#4
That's pretty good deal. I have the same model and bought as new from amazon for £90 5 years ago and still runs fine. Coupling with 8Gb ram and GTX 960 still can run most 201x games smoothly at 60fps @ 1080p.
f_a_b_i_o_48 to superivanho
7 Aug 17#47
Lies
superivanho to f_a_b_i_o_48
7 Aug 17#48
what? youtube it before you accused people lying..... wth is wrong with you....
I'm sure you're the sorts of people who randomly rant about, like "oh this news is fake" "oh it's all lies" just because someone's opinion is different to yours. Smh.
f_a_b_i_o_48 to superivanho
7 Aug 17#56
Don't need to be to sassy about it.. chill out man hahaha
superivanho to f_a_b_i_o_48
7 Aug 17#57
lol typical.
PeteW
6 Aug 17#5
These are an ideal upgrade for anyone with a Gen8 HP Microserver, which I know are quite popular round here.
bsmaff to PeteW
6 Aug 17#11
Do these actually work with the Gen8?
gkdkfcd2003 to bsmaff
6 Aug 17#13
I wouldn't recommend it. The TDP is rather high, the CPU to use for the Gen8 is the i3-3220T (T being 2 core, no hyper treading and a lower TDP)
bsmaff to gkdkfcd2003
6 Aug 17#16
What CPU would you recommend for the Gen-8?
Ideally looking for one around £50-70 most people seem to recommend the Xeon
lbeedee21 to bsmaff
6 Aug 17#17
I've done 2 cpu upgrades - from stock to an i3-3240 and from there to an i5-2390t. I'd say there's a huge step from stock to i3 - I only sprung to the i5 for hardware virtualisation which ended up not working for other reasons however the difference in plex transcoding is superb - we regularly transcode 2 and sometimes 3 hd streams at the same time and scanning through the video stream is sub 5 seconds rather 10's of seconds.
Winterwolf to lbeedee21
7 Aug 17#55
I'm upgraded to i5-2390 as well ... Seems to be running fine, and got a couple of mates who access my plex libary remotely all the time and havent run into any issues.
Though one of my HDD bit the dust last night ... So a new WD Red ordered to fix the Raid1! ..... The green I had lasted for around 4 years 24x7 constant use, so cant complain
JoeSpur to gkdkfcd2003
7 Aug 17#41
Would that give a respectable performance boost over the stock cpu? Would it even be worth the hassle
Bah, I have the previous 2 models :disappointed: Wonder if it'll fit the T20......
Edit: nope, that's an 1150
Avenger1324
6 Aug 17#6
not really sure who this deal is aimed at.
Yes it's a cheap (used) processor, but it was released in 2012 and is only an i3. That really narrows the group of people that are going to have any use for it, since they either have a system using that socket, in which case an i3 is unlikely to be an upgrade, or you need to buy 5 year old parts to make a system.
If you have a system of that age (socket) and need to replace just the CPU, would you really limit yourself to just £15 when you could have a Quad core (i5 2400) for just £32, or the once highly sought after gamers CPU i5-2500K for only £45 though that is out of stock.
Agharta to Avenger1324
6 Aug 17#8
For a general usage box for web browsing and other light duty this Ivy Bridge i3 might well be faster than that Sandy Bridge i5. People running a 2Ghz Sandby Bridge Celeron would find this gave them much more headroom as even for general usage that chip would struggle at times whereas this is probably twice as fast.
paulpso to Agharta
6 Aug 17#10
lol this is no where near that i5. Sandybridge to Ivybridge was just a transistor shrink. Hardly any performance gains came of it. And this is dual core vs quad. The single thread performance is already significantly better than the i3. So with 4 real cores and not 2 with HT. This doesn't stand a chance. Still for a basic browsing movie playing box this is decent at £15 if you can find an old 1155 board and a bit of ram. And if that's all it would be used for the igpu would suffice too.
Agharta to paulpso
6 Aug 17#24
Try reading what I actually said and respond to that. Of course the i5 is faster under heavy loads but for the usage I described those 4 cores would never get loaded so the i3 would be just as fast.
Your suggestion that Sandy Bridge has significantly better single thread performance is curious. The i3 has about a 3% IPC advantage and the i5 about a 3% clock speed advantage when running a single core which cancel each other out. If you load two cores the i5 drops 100MHz leaving the i3 with a tiny advantage. It's only when you fully load 3 or 4 cores that the i5 takes a big win. That's all I'm saying.
joe_shmoe to paulpso
9 Aug 17#66
Actually, this is incorrect. The i5 2400 has a turbo speed of 3.4 gig (single core) which results in single thread score 1743, whilst the later ivy bridge i3 has a base clock (no turbo) of 3.3 gig = single thread 1760.So no difference in general windows tasks. The i5 can however be turbo boost overclocked 400 mhz all 4 cores on a Z chipset board,and possibly some quality mid range boards; (not 'everybody' knows that ;#} ).
paulpso to joe_shmoe
9 Aug 17#67
I was never talking about the 2400, I was talking about the 2500k. But yeah 4 actual cores it would handle more modern games a hell of a lot better than a 3220
runnybabbit
6 Aug 17#7
This got me looking on there; Celeron G1610 for £1.50! At that price they'd be useful as dual-purpose troubleshooters / functional socket covers when selling 1155 motherboards.
adderrson
6 Aug 17#9
Ivy bridge in general is pretty great for getting into PC gaming. An i7 3770 will only set you back about £90 on CEX. The issue with LGA 1155 however is getting a good price on a decent motherboard.
If you already have an old one kicking about though, you could build a solid machine with ivy bridge even to this day.
Oneday77 to adderrson
6 Aug 17#35
Now you have me thinking.
I was about to build my son his first PC with a spare boxed Asus Z77 LX2 motherboard I've had for ages, along with a GTX1050 and an i5-3450 I've salvaged from an old work PC. Might sell the MB and buy a Ryzen setup for me and he can have my 2500k....oooh the possibilities.
adderrson to Oneday77
7 Aug 17#45
The sad thing is that Z77 board would likely sell for more than a new Ryzen Mobo if it's still new in it's box haha
Oneday77 to adderrson
7 Aug 17#51
It is new in box :muscle:
joe_shmoe to Oneday77
8 Aug 17#58
Which matters nothing,as c.e.x. do at least test functional. Even tho the warranty is absolutely worthless.
darthstatto
6 Aug 17#14
This is my current CPU, I've been using it since it was new about 6 years ago and it has served me well in my gaming PC. It's getting long in the tooth now though and I'm looking at moving to Ryzen.
Still, at this price, if you pair it with a newish GPU you will be able to play all the latest games at a reasonable clip.
bsmaff
6 Aug 17#15
What CPU would you recommend for the Gen-8?
Ideally looking for one around £50-70 most people seem to recommend the Xeon
GwanGy
6 Aug 17#18
THIS works fine in a gen8 with the original heatsink and ecc ram. Yes a zeon would be better but they are fairly//very rare these days. I looked for awhile but then gave up (ebay). IT REALLY LIVENS THE MACHINE up when you ask it to do more intensive tasks, even downloading large files can be sped up.
alan2simms to GwanGy
6 Aug 17#19
GwanGy, looking for some help, im struggling to find cheaper unbuffered ecc RAM for gen8 server , cheapest 8GB ecc i can find is around £80 quid im told it needs to be ecc and unbuffered any recomendations? Thanks in advance.
alan2simms
6 Aug 17#20
Great price , i got a cpu last week for my gen8 microserver from cex it arrived in a thin jiffy bag wrapped in a cex brownpaper bag :dizzy_face: dont know if it will work !! Was a great price though . Will update a pic later is this normal for cex to ship cpu's like this ? First time i got anything from them
brookheather to alan2simms
6 Aug 17#21
Yes I ordered a couple of i5 cpus last week from CeX and they were delivered in the same packaging as yours.
alan2simms to brookheather
6 Aug 17#22
Thanks
plewis00 to alan2simms
6 Aug 17#39
Pretty standard. These 'people' don't know what an anti-static bag or packaging actually is. I finally found a Radeon RX 480 that hadn't been snapped up by miners and these numpties had just shoved it in a Jiffy bag - nothing else. Shroud was cracked and backplate bent. Had to jump through hoops to return it.
timbiddypsp1
6 Aug 17#23
I believe this is compatible with the go microserver gen8 as I have a 3240 in mine. Will be a nice upgrade over the celeron that comes as default.
KonsumerKing
6 Aug 17#25
Hi ,Thanks for the link ,not heard of these guys before ,looking for AMD FX processors at the moment but silly money on EBAY even used and some people bidding more than even worth just to win the bid ! See that a lot on Ebay ! Sensible prices at CEX
TheHoss
6 Aug 17#26
Ive got a gen8 waiting for a CPU upgrade. I would like to setup a home lab with esxi6.5 and trying to hold out for a xeon but its looking way too expensive right now. Are there any more suitable CPUs that anyone can recommend? Ideally i wouldnt like to exceed 35W too much and the cpu needs to have inteli vt-d i think its called.
I went for the Xeon 1220 V2, which cost me 70 quid, and at 69W TDP is supposedly way too hot for the stock heatsink. However it is working fine for me, with a some additional plastic vanes added inside the machine to help channel airflow over the stock heatsink. The system fan is running at the lowest of the three BIOS settings. I run 3 lightly loaded VMs and don't do hardcore transcoding, and the CPU sits happily at 40C in a warm room, getting up to 70C when pushed.
TheHoss to shonkydonkey
8 Aug 17#64
That's a great document you've linked there. I'd really like to get the e3/1265L v2 but prices and availability aren't what I'd hoped they would be. I'm leaning more towards the e3-1230 v2 now but conscious of the tdp. Have you got any pictures of the plastic vanes and your setup?
WaftyCranker
6 Aug 17#27
Could this be used in a HP Proliant ML110 G7 server ?
The HP datasheet says the FCLGA 1155 board can handle an Intel® Core™ i3-2120 (3.30GHz/2-core/3MB/65W, 1333, HT) Processor but not sure about the i3-3220.
TheHoss to WaftyCranker
6 Aug 17#28
If your motherboard def supports LGA1155 socket i cant see why not
dbailey10
6 Aug 17#29
Can anyone say whether the 3240 at £25 (plus p&p) is good value for the gen8?
RichHuish
6 Aug 17#30
How easy would it be to put this on an acer celerion laptop? For a brave beginner never having taken apart a computer
Agharta to RichHuish
6 Aug 17#32
You'd have to be brave to the point of lunacy as a beginner to try and re-engineer a desktop CPU to fit in a laptop. :popcorn: So that's very much a no.
AzeemB
6 Aug 17#31
Whispers :Ryzen:
Yes but thats not a £15 upgrade
Whispers quietly; ryzen
You will have to buy whole new platform for that.
whispers; Riiiiiiiiiiisssseeeeeeeeen You didn't even spell it right that time
Threadripper
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xavierzzz
6 Aug 17#33
i can not believe I have missed this deal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO...........................
amour3k
6 Aug 17#34
I'm assuming that the OP's i3 Deal is a well used Product? (before CEX then sells it on to you, etc?), or ...
t3hfunk3r
6 Aug 17#36
3930k for £72 that's urely the best deal on there.... 6core ivy bridge 12 threads? ...... for £72?!
kamikazilucas
6 Aug 17#37
dont get this get a pre built office pc on ebay with a i5 2400
MarkT1967
6 Aug 17#38
Any idea if the 3930K will fit a Dell T110 server?
plewis00 to MarkT1967
6 Aug 17#40
The T110 II takes LGA1155 and the 3930K is FCLGA2011 so probably not. The T110 is also incredibly fussy so unless Dell supported it don't expect it to work without a fight anyway (e.g. No microcode, etc.).
MarkT1967 to plewis00
7 Aug 17#44
It's an T100 with x3220 xeon at the mo
plewis00 to MarkT1967
7 Aug 17#46
Then definitely no as that's LGA775 Core 2-era
GwanGy
7 Aug 17#49
no recs for memory as when I got mine I got 8gb for an unbelievable price .. sadly it was for the other type of server memory. After chasing down the seller I got a refund. # Ended up getting off ebay 4gb so I run with 6gb.. cant remember who tho ...6gb is fine for xpenology tho bought from a shop in 2015 ...
JuliusHibert
7 Aug 17#50
OOS online.
daanuk
7 Aug 17#52
Preferable to go instore to pick up something as delicate as CPUs in my opinion - even though you have peace of mind with the warranty. I've bought loads of PC components from Cex and the difference in condition between two matching items is often night and day. When I bought my i5 4670, there were two on display and one had what looked like tooth marks on the heat transfer pad and what looked like mud ont he contact points. The other one was mint. This happens with a lot of their stuff and can be avoided by picking them yourself, rather than letting someone pick a component out like a tombola at the fair.
BananaBread
7 Aug 17#53
Could someone tell me if this would be faster than an i5 2400 3.1 GHz?
I mainly use it for converting sound files on VLC player, that & I would like the forming of sound waveforms for MP3 files on Sony Sound Organiser to be displayed quicker. The MP3s a re a few hours long, so it take several minutes for each one, which is really inconvenient.
THanks!
brookheather to BananaBread
7 Aug 17#54
No this i3 is about the same on single threaded workloads as your i5 but slower on multi-threaded benchmarks. Assuming your audio conversion is using multiple threads already then it will be slower. You would be better off trying to find conversion software that runs quicker on your i5 cpu.
joe_shmoe
8 Aug 17#59
Incidentally,a whole used machine (lenovo micro atx particularly,with ggbyte aftermarket boards) running a haswel i3 4170 can be picked up on ebay for ~ £150, which makes this processor a complete wipe out. (The haswell chip will WIPE THE FLOOR with an ivy bridge chip in gaming minimum frame rates) Just add xfx xtfr 500 and a mid range graphics card; sorted for 3 years. RINCE AND REPEAT.
Oneday77 to joe_shmoe
8 Aug 17#62
Realllly. If you consider Sandybridge, 2nd Gen, processors are only now being considered to be replaced. Exactly how will a 4th Gen walk all over w 3rd Gen.
joe_shmoe to Oneday77
9 Aug 17#65
If you are not gaming or doing intensive tasks there is nothing wrong with sbridge i3. Ivy bridge are a little better and both gen i3's are good upgrades over a two thread celeron/pentium. But. Haswell increases MINIMUM frame rates out of scale with other performance gains because of new instruction sets,essentially improving gaming experience noticeably on lower end cpu's., Also, 3.6/3.7 ghz is common on a later haswel i3 refresh (4160/70). There were no earlier gen i3 chips running that speed because intel sand bagged them to keep an ace in the hole. cpubenchmark.net/cpu…ghz cpubenchmark.net/cpu…GHz cpubenchmark.net/cpu…GHz haswel i3 may seem expensive until you consider something like this.. ebay.co.uk/itm…-3x Is ~30 months old, has 2x sata 3 connectivity for an ssd (lower chipset 1155 boards are stuck at half that transfer rate) Standard atx psu size and aftermarket H81 ggbyte board with pci-e 2x16 slot. If you are running a 2 thread chip,the i3 3220 is a good upgrade,but dont waste more on an old i5 for a near dead motherboard cos the chip will soon end up wasted money. Converting one similar to this for a mate to cheap gaming rig, factory refurb asrock boards are 25 quid in case of disasters (You wont find a low mileage 1155 board for that). And i5 4460's also finish ~ £65 (abundance). In fact, if you have W10 retail licence, buy the refurb board and 4460 for less than a ton and be done with it.
Agharta to joe_shmoe
8 Aug 17#63
Only 10 times the price so a great comparison!
DragonQ
8 Aug 17#61
This could be awesome for me. Swapping out the Celeron G530 in my home cinema PC would net me 900 MHz base speed, HyperThreading, 1 MiB of L3 cache, a better integrated graphics processor, and a lower TDP. Should help for HEVC 10b playback.
My file server has a Celeron G1620, so I'd gain 600 MHz base speed, HyperThreading, and 1 MiB of L3 cache. For £32.50 all-in, that seems like a decent upgrade to me! Yeah I could get much better components but the outlay would be quite a bit more. This is just an in-place upgrade.
Sigh, never mind they are out of stock. >_>
dbailey10
10 Aug 17#68
Kept the tab up and randomly refreshed just now and nabbed 1 which had come back into stock. Can't guarantee it but if you're keen to get one of these (mine was to upgrade CPU in my HP Gen8 home server) worth keeping an eye maybe.
dbailey10
10 Aug 17#69
although it still says 1 left in stock online so maybe I'll be disappointed! Prepare to be yourself if you put an order in now... :smile:
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CeX offers a 24 month warranty* (on all items purchased on or after 14th Nov 2015) on all items except consumables. The CeX 24 month warranty* does not cover physical damage, water damage, or any damage caused by unlocking a mobile phone, and only covers software faults arising in the course of normal use.
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Buying CPUs that can't be overclocked doesn't have much risk.
youtube search i3 3220 60fps 1080p. it's flipping easy....
I'm sure you're the sorts of people who randomly rant about, like "oh this news is fake" "oh it's all lies" just because someone's opinion is different to yours. Smh.
Ideally looking for one around £50-70 most people seem to recommend the Xeon
Though one of my HDD bit the dust last night ... So a new WD Red ordered to fix the Raid1! ..... The green I had lasted for around 4 years 24x7 constant use, so cant complain
ark.intel.com/pro…GHz
Wonder if it'll fit the T20......
Edit: nope, that's an 1150
Yes it's a cheap (used) processor, but it was released in 2012 and is only an i3. That really narrows the group of people that are going to have any use for it, since they either have a system using that socket, in which case an i3 is unlikely to be an upgrade, or you need to buy 5 year old parts to make a system.
If you have a system of that age (socket) and need to replace just the CPU, would you really limit yourself to just £15 when you could have a Quad core (i5 2400) for just £32, or the once highly sought after gamers CPU i5-2500K for only £45 though that is out of stock.
People running a 2Ghz Sandby Bridge Celeron would find this gave them much more headroom as even for general usage that chip would struggle at times whereas this is probably twice as fast.
Of course the i5 is faster under heavy loads but for the usage I described those 4 cores would never get loaded so the i3 would be just as fast.
Your suggestion that Sandy Bridge has significantly better single thread performance is curious.
The i3 has about a 3% IPC advantage and the i5 about a 3% clock speed advantage when running a single core which cancel each other out. If you load two cores the i5 drops 100MHz leaving the i3 with a tiny advantage. It's only when you fully load 3 or 4 cores that the i5 takes a big win. That's all I'm saying.
The i5 can however be turbo boost overclocked 400 mhz all 4 cores on a Z chipset board,and possibly some quality mid range boards;
(not 'everybody' knows that ;#} ).
If you already have an old one kicking about though, you could build a solid machine with ivy bridge even to this day.
I was about to build my son his first PC with a spare boxed Asus Z77 LX2 motherboard I've had for ages, along with a GTX1050 and an i5-3450 I've salvaged from an old work PC.
Might sell the MB and buy a Ryzen setup for me and he can have my 2500k....oooh the possibilities.
Still, at this price, if you pair it with a newish GPU you will be able to play all the latest games at a reasonable clip.
Ideally looking for one around £50-70 most people seem to recommend the Xeon
docs.google.com/spr…dit
I went for the Xeon 1220 V2, which cost me 70 quid, and at 69W TDP is supposedly way too hot for the stock heatsink. However it is working fine for me, with a some additional plastic vanes added inside the machine to help channel airflow over the stock heatsink. The system fan is running at the lowest of the three BIOS settings. I run 3 lightly loaded VMs and don't do hardcore transcoding, and the CPU sits happily at 40C in a warm room, getting up to 70C when pushed.
The HP datasheet says the FCLGA 1155 board can handle an Intel® Core™ i3-2120 (3.30GHz/2-core/3MB/65W, 1333, HT) Processor but not sure about the i3-3220.
So that's very much a no.
Yes but thats not a £15 upgrade
Whispers quietly; ryzen
You will have to buy whole new platform for that.
whispers; Riiiiiiiiiiisssseeeeeeeeen
You didn't even spell it right that time
Threadripper
!?!?!?
------
voted hot
NO...........................
Ended up getting off ebay 4gbso I run with 6gb.. cant remember who tho ...6gb is fine for xpenology thobought from a shop in 2015 ...
I mainly use it for converting sound files on VLC player, that & I would like the forming of sound waveforms for MP3 files on Sony Sound Organiser to be displayed quicker. The MP3s a re a few hours long, so it take several minutes for each one, which is really inconvenient.
THanks!
Ivy bridge are a little better and both gen i3's are good upgrades over a two thread celeron/pentium.
But.
Haswell increases MINIMUM frame rates out of scale with other performance gains because of new instruction sets,essentially improving gaming experience noticeably on lower end cpu's.,
Also, 3.6/3.7 ghz is common on a later haswel i3 refresh (4160/70). There were no earlier gen i3 chips running that speed because intel sand bagged them to keep an ace in the hole.
cpubenchmark.net/cpu…ghz
cpubenchmark.net/cpu…GHz
cpubenchmark.net/cpu…GHz
haswel i3 may seem expensive until you consider something like this..
ebay.co.uk/itm…-3x
Is ~30 months old, has 2x sata 3 connectivity for an ssd (lower chipset 1155 boards are stuck at half that transfer rate)
Standard atx psu size and aftermarket H81 ggbyte board with pci-e 2x16 slot.
If you are running a 2 thread chip,the i3 3220 is a good upgrade,but dont waste more on an old i5 for a near dead motherboard cos the chip will soon end up wasted money.
Converting one similar to this for a mate to cheap gaming rig, factory refurb asrock boards are 25 quid in case of disasters (You wont find a low mileage 1155 board for that).
And i5 4460's also finish ~ £65 (abundance).
In fact, if you have W10 retail licence, buy the refurb board and 4460 for less than a ton and be done with it.
My file server has a Celeron G1620, so I'd gain 600 MHz base speed, HyperThreading, and 1 MiB of L3 cache. For £32.50 all-in, that seems like a decent upgrade to me! Yeah I could get much better components but the outlay would be quite a bit more. This is just an in-place upgrade.
Sigh, never mind they are out of stock. >_>