Xeon Platinum
8000-series across Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake and Sapphire Rapids. The top of the Intel stack and the strongest per-CPU numbers.
Intel Xeon Scalable — Gold, Platinum and Silver — and AMD EPYC. One tray out of a pair of servers, or a pallet out of a fleet refresh.
Pulled processors in trays, or still seated in servers you are selling us anyway.
8000-series across Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake and Sapphire Rapids. The top of the Intel stack and the strongest per-CPU numbers.
5000 and 6000-series. The volume of nearly every enterprise refresh we see, and the easiest to place quickly.
4000 and 3000-series. Lower numbers each, but they clear with the rest and there is steady demand for them.
Naples through Genoa — 7002, 7003 and 9004 series. High core counts, strong demand, and a market that has been tightening.
E5 v3 and v4, and E7. Well below Scalable numbers but genuinely saleable. Send them with everything else.
Selling us the servers too? Leave the processors seated. A populated box is worth more than an empty one plus a tray.
We price each processor on what it is worth back in service. Specification drives the offer — nothing here is weighed.
Everything in one string — generation, core count, clock and tier. It is the only thing we genuinely need from you.
Sapphire Rapids, Ice Lake, Cascade Lake and Skylake are separate markets rather than points on a curve, and the gaps are wide.
Not linear. The high-core parts carry disproportionate value because they are what buyers consolidating workloads are hunting for.
An Intel chip locked to a Dell or HPE platform is worth less than an unlocked one because the next buyer is narrower. Tell us either way.
Bent pins make an LGA processor unsellable. Trays, not bags — this is the single most avoidable way to lose money on a CPU lot.
Processors that came out of the same dual-socket board and stayed together are worth more than the same two chips split up.
A processor is the easiest thing we buy to damage in transit and the cheapest to protect. Get this right and the check-in is clean.
Under a pallet, we email you a prepaid parcel label. Processors in trays, trays in a padded carton, and you are done.
We supply pallets, wrap and straps, book the carrier, and issue the bill of lading ahead of pickup. Insured in transit at the agreed offer value.
Loose processors rub against each other and arrive with bent pins. A bent-pin chip is worth nothing, and it is entirely avoidable.
If the servers are going too, do not pull the CPUs. It costs you value, it costs you time, and it risks the socket.
We check every shipment against the agreed list on arrival, tell you what we found, and pay by ACH — typically the same business day it lands.
Trayed, stacked, padded
No. A tray of eight processors out of two servers is a normal order, and so is a pallet of trays. Small lots ship on a prepaid label we send you; larger lots go by freight we arrange and pay for.
Per CPU, on model — which is really core count, clock and generation bundled into one number. Never by weight, and nothing is averaged across the lot.
Because processor pricing moves with what platforms are being built and refreshed, and it varies enormously across a range that runs from four cores to ninety-six. Any published figure would be wrong for most people.
Only if you are keeping the servers. If the whole box is going, leave them in — a populated server is worth more than an empty one plus a tray of chips, and pulling them risks bent pins on the socket.
We buy them, and it is worth telling us. Intel chips that have been vendor-locked to a Dell or HPE platform are worth less than unlocked equivalents because the next buyer is narrower — but they still sell, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.
Yes, though E5 v3 and v4 are a long way below Scalable generation numbers. Send them with the rest rather than sorting them out separately.
No. We buy hardware that was working when it came out of service, because we sell it on to be used again. Bent pins on an LGA chip or a damaged socket makes it unsellable, so pack them in trays.
ACH once the shipment is checked in against the agreed list, typically the same business day it lands. Wire on request. We don't pay cash, and ID is required prior to payment.
Send the list — any quantity, anywhere in the USA. Written per-CPU offer back within one business day.
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