[mrb]

"beat the pants"? Compared to Ryzen, E3-1240 V2 has: half the cores, half the L3 cache, half the memory throughput of Ryzen, no AVX2, etc. Plus average price is more like $300-350 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-R210-II-1U-Rackmount-... And it's still comparing apples to oranges favoring Intel. Wait a few months and compare used Ryzen gear to that old Intel gear...

[chx]

Check price per performance please. And I said workstation, not sure why everyone is looking at rack servers? http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Z220-SFF-Workstation-E3-1240-V2-Q...

[psandersen]

Depends on your needs, dual socket xeon servers can be had with huge amounts of ram if you shop around. E.g. I got an IBM 3650 m2 with 2x L5640 and 128gb of ecc ram for $200. For my needs (heavy data processing on a budget) its been awesome.