I once saw this absolutely obscenely painted PowerMac G5 """Bondi Blue""" going for well over double what I paid for mine, somewhere around £300. In the end I believe it went for somewhere around £50 because seriously who the fuck would pay for a PowerMac with such an awful goddamn paintjob.
I always wonder if anyone actually buys these? All I can think of is due to their use of "industrial" in the title, companies who's executive will sign off on just about anything are buying these.
Those early backwards compatible PS3s I've mentioned in the past are apparently very prone to GPU failures due to the poor thermal design for its 90nm chips. It's such an epidemic that a "Frankenstein" mod has been developed where you transplant a newer, more reliable 40nm GPU in its place. Backwards compatible models are already rare enough, and one with the mod would undoubtedly be even more valuable because it makes the unit considerably more reliable, and requires a lot of skill and expensive equipment to do.
That being said, holy shit they didn't even cost this much brand new...
MattKC wrote: ↑Sat Dec 24, 2022 11:07 pm
Those early backwards compatible PS3s I've mentioned in the past are apparently very prone to GPU failures due to the poor thermal design for its 90nm chips. It's such an epidemic that a "Frankenstein" mod has been developed where you transplant a newer, more reliable 40nm GPU in its place. Backwards compatible models are already rare enough, and one with the mod would undoubtedly be even more valuable because it makes the unit considerably more reliable, and requires a lot of skill and expensive equipment to do.
That being said, holy shit they didn't even cost this much brand new...
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Yikes that is expensive!
I got my backwards compatible PS3 from a CeX back in 2016, and they thought it wasn't backwards compatible as it had "NO PS2" written on the label. After I set it up I decided to try a PS2 game and was shocked when I saw it played it flawlessly.
I still have that PS3 to this day and it still works perfectly, best of all I only paid £60 for it.
My life is the authentic stereotypical nerd experience.
Hanzo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 11:23 pm
I got my backwards compatible PS3 from a CeX back in 2016, and they thought it wasn't backwards compatible as it had "NO PS2" written on the label. After I set it up I decided to try a PS2 game and was shocked when I saw it played it flawlessly.
I still have that PS3 to this day and it still works perfectly, best of all I only paid £60 for it.
Ooh, not bad! I wonder what made them think it wasn't backwards compatible. Is it a CECHC or CECHE model? If so, I could imagine confusion because those technically use a hybrid of hardware and software emulation for the backwards compatibility, rather than the all-hardware approach of the earlier CECHB and CECHA models.
Hanzo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 11:23 pm
I got my backwards compatible PS3 from a CeX back in 2016, and they thought it wasn't backwards compatible as it had "NO PS2" written on the label. After I set it up I decided to try a PS2 game and was shocked when I saw it played it flawlessly.
I still have that PS3 to this day and it still works perfectly, best of all I only paid £60 for it.
Ooh, not bad! I wonder what made them think it wasn't backwards compatible. Is it a CECHC or CECHE model? If so, I could imagine confusion because those technically use a hybrid of hardware and software emulation for the backwards compatibility, rather than the all-hardware approach of the earlier CECHB and CECHA models.
It’s a CECHC model so it’s the hybrid. As for what made them think it wasn’t backwards compatible I don’t know, maybe they tried a PS2 game before putting it up for sale and it didn’t work?
My life is the authentic stereotypical nerd experience.
Hanzo wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 12:38 am
It’s a CECHC model so it’s the hybrid. As for what made them think it wasn’t backwards compatible I don’t know, maybe they tried a PS2 game before putting it up for sale and it didn’t work?
How much do you wanna bet they had a cursory glance at that wiki page (or something like it) and saw that it wasn't listed under "Hardware-based PS2 Backward Compatibility" and assumed that meant no backwards compat whatsoever lol
CeX employees when they accidentally sell something for half it's actual value:
Hanzo wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 12:38 am
It’s a CECHC model so it’s the hybrid. As for what made them think it wasn’t backwards compatible I don’t know, maybe they tried a PS2 game before putting it up for sale and it didn’t work?
How much do you wanna bet they had a cursory glance at that wiki page (or something like it) and saw that it wasn't listed under "Hardware-based PS2 Backward Compatibility" and assumed that meant no backwards compat whatsoever lol
CeX employees when they accidentally sell something for half it's actual value:
Yeah that’s always a possibility too.
But hey I got it for a good deal!
My life is the authentic stereotypical nerd experience.
If you're not polish, let me help you! 2000zł is 455 usd murica', funnily enough you can see on the box that it costed 25zł before (around 5 usd). Big fail.
You could make an argument it was never opened etc. but it's literally a box with a manual and 3 cds. i'd understand way more when it could be a big box or a collectors edition but this? come on...