i apologize for the OBVIOUS AI reply…the thing is i dont have it installed anywhere and have no way to actually verify the scripts…as it was granted for a competition and we installed it in our college lab in a high-end workstation…since then it has been boxed as i dont have a use-case for it although i wanted to test some of my projects but my academic commitments didn’t allow me the time for it.I just took it to friend’s workstation and ran it befor posting for Sale.
would love to verify them with any of you guys if we can have it actually installed somewhere…i live in Delhi NCR.
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No worries. Everyone is taking AI responses as the words of God these days. So can’t say I’m surprised haha.
But I’ve DMed my offer and conditions of sale. Thanks!
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If 32gb sticks start selling at 15k per, I’m going to dump my entire stash and buy farmland.
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I triple checked that whole thread and the prices, its unhinged to say the least.
Just witnessed 22k for 64GB ram. What a World to live
I got quoted 27k for 32GB here on TE just a few days ago. I sold a similar kit for 8K 2 months ago. 
Don’t worry… just before you are about to buy farmland.. that ALSO will start increasing 2x per day. 
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Is the pricing not fair here? I thought it will sell quick at this price, hence priced it lower.
The economy is just bad. Considering 30k as the value of your ram, the rest of the system for 80k is a little high.
Similar board + cpu combos went for under 50k last year.
Maybe ask for offers in the Garage Sale section.
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Might sell my other PC then. Let’s see.
I might need to lay off the sugar, I read that as diabetes storage server and then looked at my midsection.
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It is what it is. Very similar situation to gpu during peak crypto boom.
But this is different & worse as this is expected to last longer with all components using any NAND only creeping upwards.
SSD prices have essentially doubled.
The 64gb ddr5 kit i was eyeing for my compact productivity rig went from costing 22k to currently costing close to 70k. Now i will have to fork that out as there is no other option unless i compromise on performance or quality/ brand support.
I feel less outraged at these wild swings, I’m not sure if its because I’m conditioned to accept them or something else.
I remember my very first build with new parts, I had spec’ed out 128mb of ram at 12k in early 1998. When it came to buying it towards the end of 1998, prices had spiked because of an earthquake in Taiwan and it wet upto over 30k.
I still wanted it, so I sacrificed a few things in the build like a 450MHz processor instead of 500MHz Pentium 3.
I kept that build for three years, by then processors soared past 1GHz and Intel cut the cache in half, making processors a lot cheaper.
I then got It 2GHz P4 system in 2001 for around $1000 and kept that for four years, but before that I built a Celeron 800MHz system for home in the middle of 2000 for around 30k. At that point the P3 system had died from static electricity during cleaning.
In 2003 I built my first seed box with a 733MHz Pentium 3 and the whole thing was less than 8k with used parts.
I started playing around with hackintoshes in 2004 and bought my my first base macbook for $1100 in 2006.
Since then, I’ve been budgeting computers with a depreciation of $200 per year. Or I work out an ROI of two years for full builds and ten months for upgrades.
ROI can be actually ROI or it can be money I earn/save/not spend.
/old man mumbles incoherrently
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Tell me more. Is it that particular phone or all iPhone 5S?
edit:
iPhone 4 (2010)
- DAC / Audio Codec: Cirrus Logic 338S0589 (based on Cirrus Logic CS42L61 family)
- Special notes:
- Marked the beginning of Apple’s closer partnership with Cirrus Logic for audio chips.
- Considered a noticeable improvement over the iPhone 3GS in noise floor and stereo separation.
- Headphone output measured very clean for its time (low distortion, low output impedance ~1–2 Ω).
iPhone 4S (2011)
- DAC / Audio Codec: Cirrus Logic 338S0987 (CS42L61 derivative)
- Special notes:
- Not a dramatic jump from the iPhone 4, but measurements showed:
- Slightly better dynamic range and THD+N.
- Lower output impedance.
- The 4S was often praised by audio reviewers as one of Apple’s cleanest-sounding 30-pin devices.
iPhone 5 (2012)
- DAC / Audio Codec: Cirrus Logic 338S1116 (likely CS42L63 family)
- Special notes:
- Noticeable upgrade over the 4S.
- Very low noise floor; improved stereo crosstalk due to internal redesign.
- Slightly higher output power.
- Introduced the Lightning connector, but still had a 3.5mm jack with the DAC in the phone (Lightning did not carry analog yet).
iPhone 5c (2013)
- DAC / Audio Codec: Cirrus Logic 338S1116 (essentially the same as the iPhone 5)
- Special notes:
- Audio subsystem was almost identical to the iPhone 5.
- No audible/measurement-significant differences from the 5.
iPhone 5s (2013)
- DAC / Audio Codec: Cirrus Logic 338S1201
- Special notes:
- This was a meaningful upgrade:
- Lower output impedance (~1 Ω).
- Improved dynamic range and overall channel precision.
- Considered one of the best-measuring iPhones with a headphone jack before the major revamp in the iPhone 6.
- Also the first iPhone with M7 coprocessor—indirectly helpful for minimizing noise from shared internal buses.
iPhone 6 / 6 Plus (2014)
- DAC / Audio Codec: Cirrus Logic 338S1202
(A successor to the 338S1201 used in the iPhone 5s; likely from the CS42L6x/CS42L7x family.)- Special notes:
- Very similar to the 5s, but with improved integration and noise isolation.
- Slightly higher output power and slightly lower distortion.
- Output impedance ~ 0.9–1.0 Ω, extremely low for a mobile device at the time.
- Measurements showed:
- Excellent frequency response even with low-impedance headphones.
- Reduced channel crosstalk compared to the 5s.
- Widely regarded as one of Apple’s “sweet spot” headphone-jack generations.
iPhone 6s / 6s Plus (2015)
- DAC / Audio Codec: Cirrus Logic 338S1285
- A newer generation codec. Internally improved but still the same Cirrus design lineage.
- Special notes:
- Slightly higher output impedance (~1.5 Ω) — surprisingly worse than the iPhone 6.
- This made some sensitive low-impedance IEMs show small frequency-response shifts.
- Otherwise excellent:
- Lower noise floor than iPhone 6.
- Better THD+N and channel match.
- First iPhone generation to support:
- Always-on Hey Siri (which required a new audio front end for mic/voice processing, though that didn’t affect DAC quality).
- Among the best-measuring iPhones with headphone jacks despite the impedance bump.
iPhone SE (1st Gen, 2016)
- DAC / Audio Codec: Cirrus Logic 338S00105
- (Functionally the same codec family used in the iPhone 6s, derived from 338S1285.)
- Special notes:
- Essentially identical audio performance to the iPhone 6s, because the SE inherits most of the 6s’s internal architecture.
- Output impedance: ~1.5 Ω, same as the 6s.
- Slightly higher than the iPhone 6 and 5s, so low-impedance multi-driver IEMs may show small frequency-response shifts.
- Very low noise floor and excellent dynamic range—noticeably cleaner than the 5s/5/4 series.
- Same high-quality Cirrus Logic analog stage, just re-packaged for the smaller form factor.
- Practical result: sound quality is extremely close to the 6s, with minimal differences even in lab measurements.
I need a 5s for a podcast listening staiton now. I always wanted one for the design, now I have real reason to get one.
IPhone 5S > World.
Is reselling stuff on TE (brought from TE for the sole purpose of reselling at a higher price) allowed?
I would understand if you bought RAM like 6 months or a year ago and are selling now due to the changing market. But something being resold in just a week at a significantly higher price seems antithetical to TE marketplace.
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Which thread?
Sold this mini PC from here a few days ago at 11k
Saw it listed today for 14k
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Yeah, it turned out to be an overkill for the intended purpose so re-listed it but after making some value additions. As for higher price, and that’s up to seller and in line with market trends of prices for DRAM chips.
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What value additions?
It was 8gb ram+PC for 11k when I sold. Now you have listed the same thing for 14k.
We exchanged feedback less than a week ago.
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I have priced according to volatility and availability of RAM in the market. If the pricing is not appropriate, the market response, or lack of therefore shall attune them. And subtle value additions such as removal of BIOS password, fixing Bluetooth antenna, a thorough deep clean of the chassis, they too account in service value term which I am free to price accordingly.
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