Sell your Intel Xeon E5-2696 v4.

The part, in brief

Why it’s worth selling, not shelving

These ex-hyperscaler parts are wanted precisely because they’re cheap cores by the tray, retired in enormous numbers by the big cloud operators. If it’s coming out of service, it’s worth a number before it goes in a drawer.

What moves the price

• Tray vs boxed — a boxed retail unit with its documentation is worth more than a bare tray chip; both sell.
• Quantity and matching — matched pairs and larger single-SKU lots price better per chip than singles.
• Condition — bent socket pins and heat-spreader damage matter; tell us and the number holds on inspection.
• The wider market — prices move; the sooner you send the list, the firmer the figure.

What to send us

The model (Intel Xeon E5-2696 v4), the quantity, and whether they’re tray or boxed. A pasted line from a spreadsheet is perfect. That’s enough for a real number inside a working day.

Selling other processors too? See all the server CPUs we buy, or the full list of enterprise hardware we’re buying.