CPU / Processor Buyback

OEMs covered

Intel Xeon Scalable (3rd / 4th / 5th gen) · Intel Xeon E5 / E7 · AMD EPYC (Rome / Milan / Genoa) · IBM POWER9 / POWER10

Pricing notes

Tray, OEM, or pulls — all accepted. Tray pricing is highest. Reuse-First refurb economics applied; cross-border resale where local demand is thin.

What we see most of in Malaysia

How we process your engagement

Send your asset list. We respond with a written MYR quote in per engagement SLA (5 business days for AI accelerators). Pickup against signed manifest within Pickup scheduled per engagement, nationwide Malaysia. Wipe + functional test included as standard — drives sanitised to NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1 Purge for spinning HDDs and IEEE 2883-2022 firmware Sanitize for SSDs/NVMe. Per-asset Certificate of Destruction issued, line-item invoicing per asset, settlement against your PO. Multi-site programme engagements consolidate to a single MYR settlement line; single-event engagements settle within 7 business days of manifest reconciliation.

Condition grading rubric — how we set the offer

Enterprise CPUs grade on tray-vs-OEM-vs-pulls origin and on physical condition. Tray: unopened OEM tray packaging, factory-sealed. Highest recovery: 30–55% of original list for current-gen, 15–28% for prior-gen. OEM-system pulls: removed from a system at decommissioning, no bent pins, intact IHS. Typical recovery: 18–34% current, 9–18% prior. Test-bench pulls: opened, tested, possibly with thermal-paste residue. Typical recovery: 12–26% current. Damaged pins / bent contacts: depends on severity. Mild bend may be straightenable in-house; severe damage drops the unit to scrap. Counterfeit screening: the secondary CPU market has counterfeit risk (relabelled lower-grade parts presented as higher-grade); we screen every unit through the CPU-validation pipeline before refurb routing. The certificate cites the validation result.

Typical recovery ranges — current secondary market

Sanitisation specifics — what the certificate cites

CPUs do not retain customer data — they are stateless compute, not storage. The sanitisation requirement is procedural (proof of de-installation from the customer's system) and physical (pin-condition validation, counterfeit screening). De-installation record: the host-server certificate documents the CPU pull; the per-CPU certificate cross-references the host. Pin-condition inspection: each CPU is photographed at receipt; bent pins are noted and where straightenable, repaired in-house. Severely-damaged pins drop the unit to material-recovery state. Thermal-paste removal: where the CPU was a system pull with heatsink-mounted thermal paste, the IHS is cleaned with isopropyl alcohol; the surface is inspected for IHS damage. Counterfeit screening: every CPU is validated through OEM-recognised tools — Intel Processor Identification Utility for Xeon, AMD CPUID for EPYC, IBM-side validation for POWER. The screening output is logged on the certificate. Microcode level: where the CPU has a microcode revision documented, that is logged.

Recent engagement scenarios (anonymised)

Scenario 1 — Server decommissioning, 192 CPU pulls. A bank decommissioning 96 servers (each dual-socket Intel Xeon Gold 6354) generated 192 CPU pulls. Each CPU pin-inspected, thermal-paste-cleaned, counterfeit-screened. Reuse-First reuse rate on the CPU pulls: 91% (only 17 units had bent pins or other damage). Settlement on the CPU pulls in MYR added meaningfully to the total recovery from the parent server engagement.

Scenario 2 — Tray-CPU return, 48 unopened EPYC 7763. A customer with surplus tray-EPYC 7763 from a cancelled deployment retired 48 unopened tray units. Tray pricing applied (highest in the CPU buyback grade structure). Settlement in MYR at the upper end of the band typical for the model.

Scenario 3 — Legacy Xeon E5 retirement, 320 system pulls. A retiring 5-year-old data centre generated 320 Xeon E5-2680 / E5-2690 system pulls. Legacy generation, low per-unit recovery, but high volume. Programme-level pricing applied; counterfeit screening applied (legacy generations have higher counterfeit-incidence in the secondary market, so screening is more rigorous). Reuse-First reuse rate: 73% of the units cleared validation and routed to secondary-channel buyers focused on budget-tier server deployments.

Pickup, chain of custody, and logistics

CPU pulls ship in anti-static foam trays; tray-CPUs ship in original OEM packaging. Pickup volumes vary from a single tray-CPU to a 1,000+ unit programme retirement. Per-unit serialisation; per-unit photograph at receipt. Bulk pickup: programme-level retirements are picked up in sealed transit boxes; manifest signed at every transfer. Counterfeit-screening lead time: the screening pipeline adds 3–5 business days to the certificate-issuance timeline; settlement is against the validated count, not the received count, so the customer's MYR settlement reflects only validated units. Failed-validation units are flagged and either disposed or returned to the customer at their election.

Common pitfalls that erode recovery

Pitfall 1 — Bent pins from rough de-installation. Customers de-installing CPUs from servers in haste often bend pins on the underside. Severely-bent pins drop the unit to scrap; we recommend slow, careful pin-aligned removal. Pitfall 2 — Counterfeit units in the customer's inventory. Customers occasionally have counterfeit CPUs in their fixed-asset register from prior-vendor procurement; counterfeits are not buyback-eligible. We screen and flag. Pitfall 3 — Mixed-generation tray + pulls. A pickup that mixes tray-CPUs and system-pulls needs split pricing; tray clears at higher recovery, pulls at lower. We line-item by origin on the MYR quote. Pitfall 4 — Microcode revision required by some buyers. Some secondary buyers require specific microcode revisions; where applicable, we update microcode in-house. Pitfall 5 — IHS damage from improper heatsink mounting. Thermal-paste residue is fine; IHS dents from over-tightened heatsinks reduce grade.

Why customers in Malaysia choose Maxicom for cpus / processors buyback

Continuous operation since 1996 — the Maxicom group was founded in India in 1996 and operates across Malaysia, plus four other Maxicom regions. Per-asset certificate format admissible against , PDPA Malaysia, NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1, IEEE 2883-2022, and equivalent regulators in every jurisdiction we have served. Reuse-First reuse rate of 65–75% blended across our 2024–2025 cohort — typically 1.5–3× the residual value of destruction-first OEM trade-in programmes. Settlement in MYR against your purchase order, line-item per asset, payment terms 7 business days from manifest reconciliation. Cross-border resale routing under NDA preserves channel-respect — your retired gear never re-appears in your local market unless you specifically authorise local resale. Programme-level pricing for multi-event commitments; quarterly business reviews for ongoing engagements. Single SOW, single ledger, single regulator-facing report — your fixed-asset team reconciles to one document.