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Re:Reusing Old Hardware by lunchables on Friday October 26, 2018 @08:22AM (#18308556)
Couldn't you build a low-end threadripper or really nice Zen system for less with far more power?
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Re:Reusing Old Hardware by LeonM on Friday October 26, 2018 @10:14AM (#18309375)
Haven't done any research yet, but it wouldn't surprise me if a 2 year old high-end Xeon outperforms a low-end threadripper on my typical workload.

Also: a 2 year old server can be bought for about 1k, you can't get the core count and amount of RAM new for that price.

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Re:Reusing Old Hardware by walrus01 on Friday October 26, 2018 @08:43AM (#18308651)
If I were going to spend $2000 to $2500 USD I would definitely build a new threadripper machine with nvme storage for a development system. But if I had a combination of only $750 to spend, free power, and a place to put something very noisy, I'd totally buy a 4U Dell 32-core server off eBay and use that.
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