This is a situation where I can sell them above market on ebay...for the most part. The guy who wants them is building miner rigs. I have no idea how he is changing a core 2 cpu to an asic chip except to guess he's taking advantage of its ability to handle thousands of threads at once....kind of the trademark of the centrino and core 2 architecture is that they sacrifice efficiency for ability to process off the bus as fast as it can be fed to the cpu. If I had to guess how I would say he is doing it...pre and post numerical processing, texas instruments makes a rather excellent math co processor rated at less than an 1/8th watt TDP each... take a standard 12 inch finger card PCB and you can probably load 10 or even 20 CPUs and another 8 co processors then flip it over for all the memory...a miner rig is for the bitcoin stuff, which is steadily eclipsing what the average user can hash and still turn a profit against their electric bill.