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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by m463 on Monday June 01, 2026 @05:09PM (#48362672)
I bought a renewed 2x E5-2690v4 server (28c/56t) 128gb on amazon for under $500 2 years ago (28c/56t) dell T7810

search amazon for "chia farming" ...and scroll past chia seeds :)

now same machine is 2.5x the price

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095TRGCSX

but way cheaper than current ddr5 machines

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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by overfeed on Monday June 01, 2026 @07:17PM (#48363848)
> now same machine is 2.5x the price

2.5x?! I have a bunch of older Haswell servers I got for free that are rotting away in my garage. I had initially thought of stripping out the ECC DDR4, but now I'm wondering if I'll get takers on Marketplace...

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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by sixothree on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @09:39AM (#48370139)
Honestly, if someone can actually use them (as demonstrated by paying the price+shipping) then they would probably have a better home with that person.
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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by justinram11 on Monday June 01, 2026 @08:24PM (#48364301)
Bought the exact same machine (same config and ram as well) around the same time off ebay for ~$280. Part of me wonders if I should sell it, but I do occasionally like to play with homelab stuff.

I have a 3060 12gb card I'd love to hook up to my PoE Reolink cameras for face detection and to get off of the Reolink app.

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