Bulk Server CPU and Processor Supplier

Always. Processor pricing varies enormously by generation, core count, clock speed and stepping, and a general description is not enough to price accurately or honestly.

The gap is wider than people expect. Two processors from the same family and socket, bought in the same condition, can differ several times over in value on core count alone. Quoting from a description such as a mid range server processor would mean either overcharging you or committing to a number we cannot stand behind once we see what you actually want.

The part number settles all of it at once, including details that are easy to overlook, such as whether a part is a low power variant or an OEM specific version that will not run outside its original platform.

Send the part number and the quantity and you will normally have pricing back the same day.

Yes. Where a deployment requires it we can supply matched pairs drawn from the same batch, and we do this regularly for dual socket builds.

Flag it at quote stage rather than afterwards. Dual socket boards expect both processors to be the same model and stepping, and mixing across steppings can produce instability that is difficult to diagnose later, because the machine will often boot and run normally before it misbehaves under load. Pulling genuinely matched parts also takes more effort than taking two of the same model number from separate lots, so it needs to be priced in from the start rather than bolted on at the end.

If you are building a cluster rather than a single machine, tell us the node count as well. Matching across an entire batch of nodes is a different exercise from matching one pair.

Yes. Processors are tested before dispatch and the pins or contact pads are inspected on every unit.

Physical inspection matters as much as the electrical testing here, because the most common fault in used server silicon is mechanical rather than electrical. On LGA parts the pins sit in the socket rather than on the chip, so the risk is bent or contaminated contact pads on the processor itself. On PGA parts the pins are on the processor and a single bent pin can stop the machine posting entirely. Neither shows up in a specification sheet, and neither is visible once a part is sitting in a tray with fifty others.

Every unit is therefore inspected individually rather than sampled. Where a processor has been pulled from a working node, that is the strongest evidence available that it functions, and we record it against the lot.

Yes. Large processor lots are normal for us, because server decommissions release them in volume rather than in ones and twos.

Send the full requirement rather than a trial quantity. Volume changes the answer materially in this category, more than in most others, because it changes which lots we can commit to one buyer. Processors are frequently held as part of a whole node or a whole rack rather than as loose parts, so a requirement large enough to take an entire decommission off the shelf opens options that a small request simply does not.

The practical effect is that a small trial order can quote at a worse unit price than the real order you are working towards, which then makes us look uncompetitive on the thing you actually wanted. Tell us the real number, even if you intend to start smaller.