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by EvanAnderson 775 days ago
> That's $400,000 of just CPUs to sell.

But do you crater the market for those CPUs? What's the demand for 2016-era Xeons and how much of their price comes down to supply?
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ansible 775 days ago
I presume no one is building new motherboards for those processors either. While there is old stock laying around, you really need to run those systems close to as-is for them to be useful.
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pantalaimon 775 days ago
> I presume no one is building new motherboards for those processors either

That's actually far from the truth, LGA2011 is quite popular as a budged gaming system precicely because CPUs are so cheap on the 2nd hand market.

https://aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-X99.html

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toast0 775 days ago
These are high spec cpus for the socket though. Lots of room for people with compatible boards that want to upgrade.

There's a lot of low budget hosting with old Xeon systems (I'm paying $30/month for a dual westmere system; but I've seen plenty of offers on newer gear); you can still do a lot with an 18 core Broadwell, if the power is cheap.

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