Buying a CPU - amazon/ebay? new/refurbished? v1/v2?

[thegloaming]

I am looking to buy a CPU in the US and have it brought down to India (way way way cheaper in the US), and have just come to know of someone who is coming down to my country from the US in the next few weeks and is willing to bring along 1 CPU.
So I just have to order and ship it to him, but I am a bit lost in the options of which website to use to buy, and even which type of CPU to get. I'd appreciate any help / advice on this.

A key consideration for me is that as I am not living in the US, I cannot easily ship a non-working part back, and so a better probability of reliability is helpful (so I wonder if I should go for a new one, or a tested refurbished one).

MY ISSUE
I am looking to buy either an Intel Xeon E5-2670 or E5-2660 (v1 or v2) for a home server / FreeNAS setup.
For the most, a 2660 v1 should do what I need on a home server, but geekiness and possible future potential of a more powerful CPU (Yay! 2670) with more cores (Yay! v2) gets in the way of simple decision making. I am mostly looking at amazon.com and ebay.com (newegg does not have anything cheaper than these).
My current preferred options are higlighted in bold below.

- I can get a new 2670 for about $139 (ebay) or $160 (amazon). I can get used/refurbished ones for about $120.
- I can get a new 2660 for about $100 (amazon). I can get used/refurbished ones for about $75/88.
- I can get used versions of 2670 v2 for $165 or a used 2660 v2 for $123 / $115 (all on ebay)

At the moment I am largely leaning to getting a 2660 v1 off Amazon as $100 is rather cheap for a new one.
Though the 2660 v2 on ebay ($123/$115) or a new 2670 v1 ($139) are also very enticing,

Would you recommend one of these CPUs over the other (incl. v1 vs v2 or new vs. used vs. refurbished)?
Do you have any advice or recommendations buying from these sites?

 

[jaslion]

I am looking to buy a CPU in the US and have it brought down to India (way way way cheaper in the US), and have just come to know of someone who is coming down to my country from the US in the next few weeks and is willing to bring along 1 CPU.
So I just have to order and ship it to him, but I am a bit lost in the options of which website to use to buy, and even which type of CPU to get. I'd appreciate any help / advice on this.

A key consideration for me is that as I am not living in the US, I cannot easily ship a non-working part back, and so a better probability of reliability is helpful (so I wonder if I should go for a new one, or a tested refurbished one).

MY ISSUE
I am looking to buy either an Intel Xeon E5-2670 or E5-2660 (v1 or v2) for a home server / FreeNAS setup.
For the most, a 2660 v1 should do what I need on a home server, but geekiness and possible future potential of a more powerful CPU (Yay! 2670) with more cores (Yay! v2) gets in the way of simple decision making. I am mostly looking at amazon.com and ebay.com (newegg does not have anything cheaper than these).
My current preferred options are higlighted in bold below.

- I can get a new 2670 for about $139 (ebay) or $160 (amazon). I can get used/refurbished ones for about $120.
- I can get a new 2660 for about $100 (amazon). I can get used/refurbished ones for about $75/88.
- I can get used versions of 2670 v2 for $165 or a used 2660 v2 for $123 / $115 (all on ebay)

At the moment I am largely leaning to getting a 2660 v1 off Amazon as $100 is rather cheap for a new one.
Though the 2660 v2 on ebay ($123/$115) or a new 2670 v1 ($139) are also very enticing,

Would you recommend one of these CPUs over the other (incl. v1 vs v2 or new vs. used vs. refurbished)?
Do you have any advice or recommendations buying from these sites?

Why would you need an 8 core for a nas? Also don't forget that the cpu's may be cheap the motherboards are expenisve as hell.

 

[thegloaming]

Why would you need an 8 core for a nas? Also don't forget that the cpu's may be cheap the motherboards are expenisve as hell.

I intend to use it as a home server and a NAS. The server would have a number of VMs running (one of these would be a NAS), and to some of these VMs I could dedicate a few cores, and have the others used by my server. It might end up being overkill, but these are the options I ended up after quite some deliberation.

Also, I already have a motherboard to support this (LGA2011), so am looking for a CPU to fit into this.

 

[jaslion]

Why would you need an 8 core for a nas? Also don't forget that the cpu's may be cheap the motherboards are expenisve as hell.

I intend to use it as a home server and a NAS. The server would have a number of VMs running (one of these would be a NAS), and to some of these VMs I could dedicate a few cores, and have the others used by my server. It might end up being overkill, but these are the options I ended up after quite some deliberation.

Also, I already have a motherboard to support this (LGA2011), so am looking for a CPU to fit into this.

What lga 2011 board exactly since every version of cpu usually needs a diffrent 2011 chipset.

 

[thegloaming]

Why would you need an 8 core for a nas? Also don't forget that the cpu's may be cheap the motherboards are expenisve as hell.

I intend to use it as a home server and a NAS. The server would have a number of VMs running (one of these would be a NAS), and to some of these VMs I could dedicate a few cores, and have the others used by my server. It might end up being overkill, but these are the options I ended up after quite some deliberation.

Also, I already have a motherboard to support this (LGA2011), so am looking for a CPU to fit into this.

What lga 2011 board exactly since every version of cpu usually needs a diffrent 2011 chipset.

I have a Supermicro X9SRL-F-O board, which as per my understanding should support the E5-16xx and E5-26xx CPUs (v1 and v2 both). Do you have reason think it might not support some of these?

 

[iamacow]

The website says

Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600/1600 and E5-2600/1600 v2 family. You can get a E5 26XX for less than $80 on ebay. I got a pair of 2670s for $100 last year. Old XEONs are a dime a dozen.

 

[jaslion]

Why would you need an 8 core for a nas? Also don't forget that the cpu's may be cheap the motherboards are expenisve as hell.

I intend to use it as a home server and a NAS. The server would have a number of VMs running (one of these would be a NAS), and to some of these VMs I could dedicate a few cores, and have the others used by my server. It might end up being overkill, but these are the options I ended up after quite some deliberation.

Also, I already have a motherboard to support this (LGA2011), so am looking for a CPU to fit into this.

What lga 2011 board exactly since every version of cpu usually needs a diffrent 2011 chipset.

I have a Supermicro X9SRL-F-O board, which as per my understanding should support the E5-16xx and E5-26xx CPUs (v1 and v2 both). Do you have reason think it might not support some of these?

You are fine then. Just making sure since these server boards are quite picky. Also you should be able to get a 2670 for 70$ easily on ebay. Just search for xeon 2670 or xeon 2011. Use as few terms as possible and as few filters as possible then you can find the cheap ones.

 

[thegloaming]

The website says

Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600/1600 and E5-2600/1600 v2 family. You can get a E5 26XX for less than $80 on ebay. I got a pair of 2670s for $100 last year. Old XEONs are a dime a dozen.

Unfortunately it seems the prices are not as cheap as they were a year ago.
I am not seeing any 2670s for less than $120, or 2660s for less than $79. But these are still cheap prices, and I will likely pick up one of these.

 

[thegloaming]

You are fine then. Just making sure since these server boards are quite picky. Also you should be able to get a 2670 for 70$ easily on ebay. Just search for xeon 2670 or xeon 2011. Use as few terms as possible and as few filters as possible then you can find the cheap ones.

Great! I am searching on ebay with as few terms (xeon 2011, xeon 2670, intel e5 2670, intel 2670), but do not see anything cheaper than $120. I do see 2660s starting around $79. So I guess I'll pick from among these.