Selling the X399M (& quite possibly a 2950X)

[asheshAmbasta]

Hello everyone,
I apologise for posting this in English. I'm not a native Dutch speaker, and I'm still learning.

Background:

2.5 years ago, I bought a computer from Azerty.nl, and this was based off (mainly) the:
- AMD TR 2950 processor
- Taichi X399M motherboard

Given I'm a linux user, and issues with the Linux kernel and AMD processors are well known, I could never get this system to be stable.
The problem is that the system crashes on idle. And nothing I've done so far seems to have solved the issue.
There's a very long thread which talks about the issues in detail, and I'm one of them.
The issues seem to be related to either the C-states of the processor, or the idle current control.
AMD has effectively asked the Linux users to stop bothering them, and the Linux kernel maintainers seem to have not bothered to check this at all. All in all, you will leave your desk for a lunch break, come back to find your computer unresponsive. The only way out of it is to reboot the system via a hard reset and pray you didn't lose any unsaved work.
I've tried several things to solve this issue. Here's what I tried:

• I've exchanged the older processor with a new one, this was done via an RMA
• I've tried the commonly suggested "Typical current Idle" settings in the BIOS
• I've tried disabling C-states in the BIOS
• I've tried upgrading the BIOS to the latest version.

None of the above have helped. And Windows doesn't suffer from these issues: the "kernel" of the Windows systems have applied the appropriate patches/workarounds to overcome the issues in the processor. This is not happening in Linux.

As a result, I'm now looking to sell this motherboard and processor and go for an older, similarly specced Intel processor. I'm not willing to risk things again with AMD (even the newer generations).

Now, I need some advice:

• How should I go about selling this?
• What's a fair price (est.) for this setup? (I want to sell to a windows user, so they don't face the same issue)

Thanks.

[br00ky]

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