Is it just me or are second hand PCs and second hand PC components super expensive in NZ? You read about people in Europe and the US getting things like 8th gen intel old Dell OptiPlex ex-lease PCs for <$100 (2017 tech). Meanwhile sticking with the same example, you struggle to find an 8th gen intel CPU (without other components) for less than $300 on trademe and marketplace, and complete systems are like $500+ for 6 year old tech.

I want to upgrade my Plex server CPU from 4th to minimum 8th gen so I can properly transcode h265 video using the modern QuickSync version. I just need a new CPU and motherboard and it seems like I can buy new 12th or 13th gen for similar money as 8th gen second hand.

Preemptive reply to AMD comments. I run AMD on my gaming rig. But AMD don’t support QuickSync.

  • innercitadel@lemmy.nzOP
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    1 year ago

    Not sure. But I often see people recommending buying a second hand dell optiplex or similar for home servers, and it doesn’t seem to make economical sense here. But don’t have any objective data to offer, just an impression.

    Interesting point about trademe listing vs actual sale prices.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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      1 year ago

      The listings vs sales price is talked about a lot with regard to ebay, but as I understand it ebay lets you search past sales whereas trademe doesn’t.

        • Dave@lemmy.nzM
          2·
          1 year ago

          Aren’t expired listings the ones that didn’t sell? I’m not aware of a way to search items that did sell.

          • kif@lemmy.nz
            2·
            1 year ago

            It definitely includes sold listings - put in “$1 reserve” and you’ll see both sold and unsold!

            • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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              1 year ago

              Oh nice it does! It seems the expired without selling items far exceed sold items, which kinda helps my point that you should ignore asking prices and only look at selling prices.