Great marketplace find
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Redditor “R550MAGIC2” says he bought a used Z690 motherboard for $50 and later found that all four M.2 slots were populated with SSDs. The buyer says the board had a bent socket pin, but the presence of heatsinks on every M.2 slot suggested storage might still be installed.
Long story short, the board did in fact have SSD and it wasn’t just one drive, but three. Apparently it featured two 4TB WD Black SN850X drives, one 2TB Corsair MP600, and one 2TB Intel 670p. The buyer says they formatted the drives and all of them worked in testing.
Saw a z690 on marketplace for $50, was gonna buy it till I saw SSD coolers on all 4 nvme slots, talked with the seller, said he did not know much about computers and just selling it for lower than prices on ebay. Immediately messaged the guy and agreed on a time to meet up. Half an hour drive and $50 later, I was the proud owner of a z690 with a bent pin, and apparently 2 x 4TB SN850X, 1X 2TB corsair MP600, 1 x 2TB intel 670p nvme. Tested it all on my pc after formatting, all are working great. This is a very welcome surprise in these horribly priced pc parts time
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Based on current US pricing, the two 4TB SN850X drives alone can total about $1180. For the Intel 670p 2TB, one tracker lists a current price of $240. That puts the subtotal at about $1,420 before counting the Corsair SSD and the motherboard.
The Corsair MP600 value depends on the exact variant. A tracker shows the MP600 CORE 2TB at $190, while Corsair lists the MP600 ELITE 2TB at $440. Using that range, the four SSDs land around $1,600 to $1,860 at current pricing. I wouldn’t put much value into the motherboard at this point.
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