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Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Lucky bidder scoops $8,000 PC for $23 at auction — Mislabelled Fractal Design case listing had 24-core Threadripper 3960X, 256GB of memory, and an RTX 3080 Ti inside

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Lucky bidder scoops $8,000 PC for $23 at auction — Mislabelled Fractal Design case listing had 24-core Threadripper 3960X, 256GB of memory, and an RTX 3080 Ti inside

www.tomshardware.com

Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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A Puget Systems engineer confirmed this system probably sold for over $8,000 in 2021.
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    Only a 3080? Thats 2 gens behind, its basically a paperweight /s

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    In what has to be the luckiest case of a mislabeled auction item ever

    …yeeeah okay if you say so lol

  • CluckN@lemmy.world
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    Small price to pay for good PR

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    Nooo! It should have been me! 😭

    If I got that I would never shut the fuck up about it. It would become my personality and I’d be telling my grandkids.

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    I would do illicit things for a threadripper

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      You can get them at JoAnn Fabrics for like three dollars

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        No you can’t, they all closed down.

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          Guess they shoulda sold more thread rippers

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        Private Equity killed JoAnn

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      Will you rip some threads for it?

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        Poshanka!

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